Social Cognition
This bias is reinforced by hindsight bias.
What is blaming the victim?
It is intense feeling of attraction to another within an erotic context and with future expectations
What is romance?
This is a learned, unjustified negative attitude toward members of a group.
What is prejudice?
This involves blaming failure on internal, personal factors, while attributing success to external, situational factors.
What is self-effacing bias?
Explicit cognition is the deliberate, conscious mental process involved in perceptions, judgments, decisions & reasoning is known as part of what process.
What is a conscious process?
____________ cultures tend to be more aware of situational constraints for others.
What is collectivistic?
The mental process we use to form judgments about other people.
What is Person Perception?
It focuses on the personal disposition of the actor.
What is Dispositional attribution?
It describes the negative behaviors directed at members of a group.
What is discrimination?
When people of equal attractiveness tend to select each other as partners.
What is matching hypothesis?
Conditions in which people are more or less likely to help one another. In general…the more people around…the less chance of help… because of...
What is the bystander effect?
Attributing people’s behavior to internal (dispositional) causes rather than external (situational) factors; related to the actor-observer bias
What is FAE (Fundamental Attribution Error)?
The ___________, _____________, and ____________ are all selectively responsive to the reward value of attractive faces.
What are the Orbital frontal cortex, nucleus accumbens and amygdala?
The study of how others influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is Social Psychology?
Focusing on the most noticeable factors when explaining the causes of behavior.
What is Saliency Bias?
The mental processes that people use to make sense out of their social environment.
What are social cognitions?
Attributing others’ behaviors to personality factors but our own to situational details.
What is actor-observer bias?
According to this judgment principle, your goals in a particular situation determine the amount and kinds of information you collect about others.
What is Principle 3?
This is a dilution of personal responsibility for acting by spreading it among all other group members
What is the diffusion of responsibility?
When a person takes credit for their successes and blames their failures on external causes.
What is self-serving bias?
It is a tendency to blame an innocent victim of misfortune for having somehow caused the problem or for not having taken steps to avoid or prevent it.
What is blaming the victim?
The effect of behavior on attitudes when you are torn between two choices.
What is
•You emphasize the negative features of the choice you rejected, which is commonly called a “sour grapes” rationalization OR
•You also emphasize the positive features of the choice you made—a “sweet lemons” rationalization
An unpleasant psychological tension caused by a contradiction between one’s thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is cognitive dissonance?
It is an explanation about the causes of behaviors or events.
What is attribution?
Focuses attention on external factors.
What is situational attribution?