Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Social Psychology
Concepts in PSYC 3150
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Psychology | The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. |
| Social Representations | A society's widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world. |
| Hindsight Bias | The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out. |
| Framing | The way a question or an issue is posed; framing can influence people's decisions and expressed opinions. |
| Mundane Realism | The degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations. |
| Experimental Realism | The degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants. |
| Demand Characteristics | Cues in an experiment that tell the participant what behavior is expected. |
| Spotlight Effect | The belief that people are paying more attention to our appearance and behaviors than they really are. |
| Illusion of Transparency | The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be read by others. |
| Self Schema | Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information. |
| Self Concept | What we know and believe about ourselves. |
| Possible Selves | Images of what we dream of or dread coming in the future. |
| Social Comparison | Evaluating one's abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others. |
| Planning Fallacy | The tendency to underestimate how much time will be required to complete a task. |
| Impact Bias | The tendency to overestimate the enduring impact of emotion-causing events. |
| Immune Neglect | The human tendency to underestimate the speed and the strength of the "psychological immune system" which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen. |
| Dual Attitude System | Differing implicit (automatic) and explicit (consciously controlled) attitudes toward the same object. |
| Terror Management Theory | People exhibit self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices) when confronted with reminders of their mortality. |
| Self-Esteem | A person's overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth |
| Individualism | The concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications |
| Collectivism | Giving priority to the goals of one's group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly |
| Self-Efficacy | A sense that one is competent and effective, distinguished from self-esteem, which is one's sense of self-worth. A sharpshooter in the military might feel high self-efficacy and low self-esteem. |
| Locus of Control | The extent to which people perceive outcomes as internally controllable by their own efforts or as externally controlled by chance or outside forces |
| Learned Helplessness | The sense of hopelessness and resignation learned when a human or animal perceives no control over repeated bad events |
| Self-Serving Bias | The tendency to perceive oneself favorably |
| Self-Serving Attributions | A form of the self-serving bias; the tendency to attribute positive outcomes to oneself and negative outcomes to other factors |
| Defensive Pessimism | The adaptive value of anticipating problems and harnessing one's anxiety to motivate effective action |
| False Consensus Effect | The tendency to overestimate the commonality of one's opinions and one's undesirable or unsuccessful behaviors |
| False Uniqueness Effect | The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one's abilities and one's desirable or successful behaviors |
| Group-Serving Bias | Explaining away outgroup members' positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions (while excusing such behavior by one's own group) |
| Self-Handicapping | Protecting one's self image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for later failure |
| Self-Presentation | The act of expressing oneself and behaving in ways designed to create a favorable impression or an impression that corresponds to one's ideals |
| Self-Monitoring | Being attuned to the way one presents oneself in social situations and adjusting one's performance to create the desired impression |
Created by:
denoiami
Popular Psychology sets