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20 Cards in this Set
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Social Psychology
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how people think about, influence, and relate to other people
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Social Cognition
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how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information
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Person Perception
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how do we think about other people?
forming impressions |
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Attribution
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determining why people do what they do
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The Self
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how do we view ourselves
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Attitudes
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our feelings or opinions about people, objects and idea
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First Impressions
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lots of power in a 1st impression
The "Recency Effect" |
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Stereotyping
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Generalization about a group's characteristics that does not consider individual variablility
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Why do we sterotype?
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expectations cause individuals to act in ways that make the expectations come true (Self fufilling prophecy)
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Attractiveness
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how do we determine beautiful?
Beautiful is good. Average is "Beautiful". |
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Attributional Theory
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People are constantly trying to understand the underlying causes of their own behavior and the behavior of others.
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Internal vs. External causes
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internal "didn't study cause she's lazy"
external "didn't study cause her roomate is noicy" |
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Stable vs. Unstable causes
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Stable 'he yelled because he is a hostile person"
Unstable 'he yelled because he was having a bad day' |
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Controllable vs Uncontrollable causes
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Controllable "She was late because she stopped for coffee"
Uncontrollable "She was late because there was an accident on the freeway" |
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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people tend to overestimate the importance of 'stable' internal traits and underestimate the importance of temporary, external situations when seeking explanations for others' behavior
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Applying Fundamental Attribution Error to ourselves
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We evaluate our own behavior on a self-serving bias
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False Consensus Effect
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overstimation of the degree to which everyone else thinks and acts as we do.
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Self Esteem
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the degree to which we have positive or negative feelings about ourselves
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Attributes of High Self Esteem
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People with high self esteem have positive illusions about themselves and are psychologiallu healthier and optimistic.
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Attributes of Low Self Esteem
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People are more realistic about their good and bad characteristics.
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