The belief that adult behavior can be traced to unresolved psychological conflicts from one's childhood.
What is psychoanalytic theory?
100
A biasing effect on judgments away from the environmental context.
What is contrast?
100
The study of how people form inferences from social information.
What is social cognition?
100
The set of beliefs we hold about who we are.
What is self-concept?
100
Affective, behavioral, and cognitive.
What are the "ABCs" of attitudes?
200
The extent to which one person's outcomes depend on the behavior of another, and vice-versa.
What is interdependence?
200
A theory to analyze how we explain people's behavior.
What is attribution theory?
200
A structured set of cognitions, including some knowledge about the object and some specific examples.
What is a schema?
200
the part of a person’s self-concept that comes from their membership in a social group and the value they attach to that membership.
What is social identity?
200
Balance theory and cognitive dissonance theory are both examples of the this framework.
What is cognitive consistency?
300
The set of norms that apply to people in a particular position.
What is a social role?
300
Cultural norms regarding how people should convey emotion to others.
What are display rules?
300
Schemas about common events.
What are scripts?
300
Efforts to control the impression we convey to others.
What is self-presentation?
300
The aversive motivational state that results when some behavior we engage in is inconsistent with our attitudes.
What is dissonance?
400
Behaviors of research participants that are based on their awareness of participating in an experiment
What are demand characteristics?
400
Overattribution to dispositions and underattribution to situations.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
400
When our expectations about another person lead us to treat him or her in ways that elicit the behavior we expect.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
400
Perception of how other people react to us.
What is reflected appraisal?
400
Cognitive response theory predicts that attitude change depends on this.
What is counterarguing?
500
A relatively recent statistical technique that gives an overall estimate of the size of a statistical finding and summarizes research findings on a particular topic.
What is Meta-analysis?
500
An Austrian psychologist who was the first to begin theorizing about attributions.
Who is Fritz Heider?
500
When people begin from a known departure point and adjust their judgment from there while attempting to form judgments from ambiguous information.
What is the anchoring heuristic?
500
This American Sociologist developed the concept of the “looking glass self.”
Who is Charles Cooley?
500
A theory claiming attitudes are simply habits, and they are acquired through association and imitation.