Intro & Methods
The scientific study of behavior, thought and emotion in social situations
What is social psychology?
A mental framework for processing information
What is a schema?
The universal emotion missing from the following list:
happiness sadness anger fear disgust
surprise
What is contempt?
Culture type in which people are more likely to think of themselves in relation to their group membership
What is collectivist?
(Interdependent)
Our everyday, casual predictions about human behavior are frequently incorrect because we tend to underestimate the power of ___________
What is "the (social) situation"?
The reason why Hermione's beliefs that she couldn't do well in English Literature led to her poor performance in the course.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
The name for a momentary expression or facial leak
What is a microexpression?
A child can recognize him/herself in a mirror at about this age
What is around 18 months/2 years?
The group that does not receive an experimental treatment
What is the control group?
Memories are not like photographs--they may contain inaccuracies from suggestions, beliefs , jumbles of past events, and other factors. This is due to the _______ nature of memory.
What is reconstructive?
This can be revealed by having someone repeat their story in backward chronological order.
What is deception?
Type of comparison made when you've been more successful than the other person
What is downward?
The dependent variable in Dr. Talksalot 's study of whether drinking a hot beverage will improve memory for factual information.
What is memory for factual information?
This heuristic influenced Harvey's conclusion that his new neighbor was a librarian rather than an artist because she dressed very conservatively and wore glasses.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
This error results from our tendency to explain others' behavior as resulting from their dispositional characteristics or other internal causes.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
(correspondence bias)
Our evaluation of our self-concept
what is self-esteem
The direction of the correlation of Professor Gotoclass' research finding that children who watched more violent TV were less likely to cooperate with others at school.
What is negative?
The type of bias that explains why we tend to think that good things are more likely and bad things less likely to happen to us as opposed to others.
What is the optimistic bias?
In covariation theory, the type of attribution made when consensus is high, consistency is low, and distinctiveness is high
What is external/situational?
These are our beliefs about what others think of us; they help us learn about ourselves and influence our self-concept
What are reflected self-appraisals?