Social thinking
Explaining others’ behavior by overemphasizing personality and underestimating situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Adjusting behavior to match a group.
What is conformity?
Negative attitude toward a group and its members.
What is prejudice?
Freud’s part of personality driven by pleasure.
What is the id?
The Big Five model measures this broad category of personality characteristics.
What is traits
Overestimating how much others notice us.
What is the spotlight effect?
Changing behavior due to a direct request.
What is compliance?
Favoring your own group over others.
What is in-group bias?
Focuses on free will and self-actualization.
What is humanistic theory?
The Big Five includes openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and this.
Belief that people get what they deserve.
What is just-world hypothesis?
Conforming both publicly and privately.
What is acceptance?
Loss of self-awareness in groups.
What is deindividuation.
Focuses on unconscious conflicts and early childhood.
What is psychoanalytic theory?
A widely used clinical personality test with true/false questions.
What is the MMPI?
Explaining your own behavior based on the situation.
What is actor-observer bias?
Improved performance in the presence of others on simple tasks.
Helping others without expecting anything in return.
What is altruism?
Emphasizes reciprocal determinism.
What is the Social cognitive theory?
Personality traits that remain stable across time.
What are enduring traits?
Tendency to believe hindsight was predictable.
Reduced effort when working in a group.
The bystander effect increases when this increases.
What is group size?
Carl Rogers emphasized this for healthy development.
What is Unconditional positive regard?
A test where people interpret ambiguous images or stimuli.
What is a projective test?