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PSYC
Chapter 13 Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Psychology | Study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people |
| Person Perception | Physical attractiveness- "Beautiful is good", self-fufilling prophecy, composite faces, symmetry, and youthfulness |
| Attributions | Explanations for why people behave the way that they do |
| Attribution Theory | Attempt to discover underlying causes of behavior |
| Fundamental attribution error | Overestimate the importance of internal traits, underestimate the importance of external causes |
| False consensus effect | Overestimating the degree to which everyone else thinks or acts the way that we do, use our outlook to predict that of others |
| Positive Illusions | Views of ourselves that are not necessarily rooted in reality |
| Self- serving bias | Tendency to take credit for success and deny responsibility for failure |
| Self- Objectification | Tendency to see oneself primarily as an object in the eyes of others |
| Stereotype Threat | A self- fulfilling fear about being judged on the basis of a negative stereotype about our group |
| Social Comparison | Process by which we evaluate our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and abilities in relation to other people |
| Social Comparison Theory | We love downward comparisons |
| When can attitudes predict behavior? | When they are strong, rehearsed, and person has vested interest. |
| Cognitive Dissonance Theory | Attitude vs Behavior (Leon Festinger) |
| Self Perception Theory | Individuals make inferences about their own attitudes by perceiving their own behavior, especially if their attitudes are unclear (Bem) |
| Foot in the door technique | Ask for small commitment and then increase |
| Door in the face technique | Start big and work down |
| Two extremes of human Social Activity | Altruism, and aggression |
| Key to altruism | Empathy |
| Bystander Efect | Darley and Latane, Kitty Genovese, individuals less likely to help in emergency when others are present, diffusion of responsibility |
| Fristration- Aggression Theory | John Dollard. Frustration leads to a readiness to agress |
| Lenard Berkowitz | Modified the original theory, stating that frustration produces anger, but aggression occurs when cues are present. |
| Social Influence | How behavior is influenced by other individuals and groups |
| Asch's Experiment | Factors that contribute conformity: Informative social influence, and normative social influence |
| Informative Social Influence | We want to be right |
| Normative Social Influence | We want to be like others |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | fMRI image, when women found others had disagreed, they responded as if they had made mistakes. |
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