Social Psychology: Definitions
The scientific study of how a person’s behavior, thoughts and feelings are influenced by the real, imagined or implied presence of others
What is Social Psychology?
We attribute someone's behavior to internal causes (their personality, intelligence, morality) instead of external causes like the situation.
What is Fundamental Attribution Theory?
This type of psychologist studies how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence of others.
What is a social psychologist?
Imagine a group of friends discussing their favorite pizza toppings. If one friend loves pineapple on pizza, they might assume that most people share this preference, believing that pineapple is a popular choice.
What is False consensus effect?
How you think about others?
What is social cognition?
Feelings influenced by beliefs.
What are attitudes?
A cognitive framework that helps individuals organize and interpret information about themselves.
What is Self-Schema?
After acing a test, a student attributes their success to their intelligence and hard work, but blames a poor grade on the difficulty of the exam or bad luck.
What is self-serving bias?
John was convinced he was going to fail his final, so he did not study. He then failed his final. This is an example of what idea?
What is Self-fulfilling Prophecy?
How others change you.
What is social influence?
occurs when people are influenced by arguments/facts and respond with favorable thoughts
What is Central-Route Persuasion
We attribute OUR behavior to external causes (the situation) instead of internal causes like our personality traits or work ethic.
What is actor observer bias?
Someone who says "they did this to themselves" after witnessing a car accident believes in this phenomenon.
What is Just-world Hypothesis?
This category of self-schema involves how individuals perceive their abilities and traits related to their physical fitness, including beliefs about their athleticism and health.
What is a physical self-schema?
This is when we attribute someone's behavior to their personality or character.
What is Internal Attribution Theory?
The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts or thoughts and behaviors are inconsistent.
What is Cognitive Dissonance Theory?
The theory is that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's personality.
What is Attribution Theory?
A commercial for a new smartphone focuses the ad highlights a popular celebrity using the phone.
What is peripheral route persuasion?
This type of persuasion occurs when a person is influenced by the strength and quality of the arguments presented, often involving careful consideration of the message’s content.
What is central route persuasion?
This is when we attribute someone's behavior to external factors or situations.
What is external attribution theory?
a cognitive bias where people tend to remember and give more weight to the first information they learn about a subject.
What is the Primary Effect?
A psychological phenomenon where a belief or expectation about a situation or person leads to behaviors that cause the belief to come true.
What is Self-fulfilling prophecy?
A republican politician who makes a public statement agreeing with a democratic opponent is likely to feel what?
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
You see a coworker arrive late to a meeting. You think, “They must be disorganized or irresponsible.”
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
Conducted in 1971 by Philip Zimbardo, this controversial study revealed the impact of situational factors on behavior, as participants assigned to be guards exhibited abusive behaviors towards those assigned as prisoners.
What is the Standford prison experiment?