Research
Mind
Thought
Perception
Behavior
100
a form of the observational method in which the researcher examines the accumulated documents, or archives, of a culture
What is archival analysis
100
how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to think and form inferences when thinking
What is social cognition
100
requires two processes: 1. we must suppress unwanted thought by searching for distracters. this is the controlled, operating process 2. also must remember what it is that we are trying to suppress. this is an automatic, monitoring process
What is thought suppression
100
how we form impressions of and make inferences about other people
What is social perception
100
the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of social situations
What is fundamental attribution error
200
the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from the inside, without imposing any preconceived notions they might have
What is ethnography
200
mental structures that help organize information
What are schemas
200
mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been
What is Counterfactual Thinking
200
communication between individuals that does not involve the content of spoken language
What is non-verbal communtication
200
a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment
What is behaviorism
300
researchers observe people and measure behavior
What is the Observational Method
300
cognitive "rules of thumb" or mental shortcuts another form of automatic thinking
What is Judgmental Heuristics
300
conscious, intentional, voluntary, and/or effortful thoughts
What is Controlled Thought
300
can we tell when others are lying? -often there's "nonverbal leakage" -subtle changes often occur in liars' facial expressions, body postures or movements, and certain nonverbal aspects of speech
What is detecting deception
300
people's evaluations of their own self-worth- that is the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent
What is self-esteem
400
two variables systematically measured; relationship between them assessed
What is the Correlational Method
400
base frequency judgments on how easy information comes to mind
What is the Availability Heuristic
400
tendency for people to think that their attitudes, preferences, and choices are relatively common
What is False Consensus Effect
400
process through which we identify the causes of others' (and often our own) behavior
What is Causal Attribution
400
you expect that you or another person will behave in some way, so you act in ways to make your prediction come true
What is self-fulfilling prophecy
500
focus is on causality, "Is variable X a cause of variable Y?"
What is the Experimental Method
500
people often judge probabilities by the degree to which A resembles B
What is the Representative Heuristic
500
unconscious, unintentional, involuntary thoughts
What is Automatic thought
500
the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world
What is construal
500
tendency to infer that people's behavior corresponds to (matches) their disposition
What is Correspondence Bias
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