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Mod 43 Ch 14 EUP

Essentials of Understanding Psychology 7th ed. Mod 43 Ch 14

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What is Social psychology? The scientific study of how people's thoughs, feelings, and actions are affected.
What are attitudes? Evaluations of a particular person, behavior, belief, or concept.
What is Central route processing? Message interpretation characterized by thoughtful consideration of the issues and arguments used to persuade.
What is Peripheral route processing? Message interpretation characterized by consideration of the source and related general information rather than of the message itself.
What is Social cognition? The cognitive processes by which people understand and make sense of others and themselves.
What are Schemas? Sets of cognitions about people and social experiences.
What are Central traits? The major traits considered in forming impressions of others.
What is the Attribution theory? The theory of personality that seeks to explain how we decide, on the basis of samples of an individual's behavior, what the specific causes of that person's behavior are.
What are Situational causes of behavior? Perceived causes of behavior that are based on environmental factors.
What are Dispositional causes of behavior? Perceived causes of behavior that are based on internal traits or personality factors.
What is the Halo effect? A phenomenon in which an initial understanding that a person has positive traits is used to infer other uniformly positive characteristics.
What is the Assumed-similarity bias? The tendency to think of people as being similar to oneself, even when meeting them for the first time.
What is a Self-serving bias? The tendency to attribute personal success to personal factors (skill, ability, or effort) and to attribute failure to factors outside oneself.
What is the Fundamental attribution error? A tendency to overattribute others' behavior to dispositional causes and the corresponding minimization of the importance of situational causes.
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