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Chapter Three
Social Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Construal | The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world |
| self-esteem | People's evaluations of their own self-worth-- that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent |
| Gestalt Psychology | A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object |
| Behaviorism | school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the of the environment |
| Social influence | Form a major part of social psychology |
| Cult (pg. 61,63) | Structured group, most of whose members demonstrate unquestioned loyalty to a dynamic leader |
| Hypothesis (Pg.65) | specific situations under which one outcome or the other would occur |
| Individual Differences | the aspectsnof people's personalities that make them different from others |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | Tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underwstimate the role of situational factors |
| Empirical | Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather then theory or prue logic |
| Sociology | The study of the development structure and functioning of human society |
| Personality Psychology | Branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation between individuals |
| Distort | Give a misleading or false account or impression |
| Validity | Refers to weather a study measures or exammines what it claims to measure or examine. |
| Dysfunctional Acts | where two people make an emtional realtionship but justify their actions based upon the other |
| Hazing | practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group |
| Self-fulfilling Prophecy | Any postive or negative expectation about circumstances,events, or people that may affect a person's behavior toward them. |
| Epidemic | their answers can bevderived from experimentation or measurement rather than by personal opinion |
| Social Cognition | How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions |
| Social psychology | scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts,feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people |
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