Social Thinking
Allows us to activate certain associations
What is priming?
Seeing ourselves at center stage.
We're the star of the show!
What is Spotlight effect?
These 3 elements influence how we relate to each other.
What are genes, culture, and gender
A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members.
What is Prejudice.
A patient supplies information that fulfills the clinicians' expectations.
What is Self-Confirming Diagnoses.
A phenomenon where we have the tendency to search for information that confirms our own perceptions.
We're eager to verify our beliefs and seldom seek information that might disprove what we believe.
What is Confirmation Bias.
Darn it. Fewer people are noticing me than I presumed.
I thought my emotions were transparent, especially when I was so happy and wore it on my sleeve.
What is Illusion of Transparency.
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and tradition shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
what is Culture?
A negative behavior, as compared to prejudice which is a negative attitude.
Symptoms include negative thinking, lethargy, indifference toward family and friends, unable to sleep or eat normally, feelings of worthlessness.
What is Depression.
a mental shortcut.
What is Heuristics.
Elements of your self-concept, the specific beliefs by which you define yourself. Derived from the term for mental templates by which we organize our worlds.
AKA how were perceive ourselves, our skills and abilities.
This also affects how perceive, remember, and evaluate other people as well as ourselves.
What is Self-Schemas.
A change in behavior or belief to accord with others is known as this, while this occurs when you genuinely believe in what the group has persuaded you to do. (2 elements to the response)
What are conformity and acceptance?
The dual attitude system cites we have 2 different attitudes toward the same target.
This one is the conscious and this one is the automatic attitude.
What is Explicit (Conscious) and Implicit (Automatic)?
Incorporating misinformation into one's memory of the event after witnessing an event and receiving misleading information about it.
Often a concern in court cases.
What is Misinformation Effect?
Seeing correlations between things that do not exist.
What is Illusory Correlation.
Giving priority to the goals of one's group (such as extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly.
No room for me, myself, and I in this group.
What is Collectivism.
Among the ingredients of this social element are: the Communicator, the Message, How the messsage is communicated, and the Audience.
Basically "Who says What, by what Method, to Whom?
What is persuasion?
1) A verbal or physical behavior intended to cause harm.
2) Includes two types, such as cyberbullying or hurting someone.
What is aggression; physical aggression and social aggression.
In the court room, these jury elements--Minority influence, group polarization, leniency -- are part of what kind of influence?
What is Group Influences?
Persistence of one's initial conceptions.
Such as when the basis for one's belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true survives.
Example in text was a presidential debate.
What is Belief Perseverance.
Wow. This homework assignment is taking alot longer than I planned.
I thought it would only take me an hour to read the chapter and write the paper. I'm now working on this 4 hours later.
What is Planning Falacy.
Groups have alot of influence and power on its members to do things.
Normative influence and informational influence are two possibilities of why people do this....
what is Conform.
This type of aggression is when the aggressive energy does not explore directly against its source. Sometimes the aggression may be redirected to a safer target (such as a husband who comes home and yells at this wife cuz he had a bad encounter with his boss).
What is displacement.
Concern about the eco-system and the environment as related to social psychology,
What is Psychology and climate change?
What is Psychology, climate change, and the effects on the human mind?
What is how social psychology (people) are affected by the environment.
Any answer along this line is appropriate.