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Social Cognition
Social Perception
Interpersonal attraction
Mystery
100
Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences in a rapid and seemingly effortless manner.
What is heuristics?
100
Cues provided by the position, psoture, and movement of other's bodies or body parts.
What is body language?
100
Frequent contact with any mildly negative, neutral, or positive stimulus results in an increasingly positive evluation of the stimulus.
What is repeated exposure effect?
100
Love that is based on friendship, mutual attraction, shared interests, respect, and concern for one another's welfare.
What is companionate love?
200
Mental frameworks centering on a specific theme that helps us to organize social information.
What is schemas?
200
Theory in which we assign causes to people's behavior. We often credit the situation or the individual's disposition.
What is attribution theory?
200
Idea that although we would prefer to obtain extremely attractive romantic partners, we generally focus on obtaining ones whose physical beauty is about the same as ours.
What is the matching hypothesis?
200
Refers to small amounts of information about others we use to make first impressions of them.
What are thin slices?
300
Filing information away based on memory.
What is encoding?
300
Theory describing how we use other's behavior as a bais for inferring their stable dispositions.
What is correspondent inference?
300
An especially close bond formed between living creatures; refers to the period of infancy and the bond with the caregiver.
What is attachment?
300
Beliefs about what traits or characteristics tend to go together.
What is implicit personality theories?
400
We think about how we process information. This type takes more of a cognitive effort.
What is controlled processing?
400
Extent to which an individual responds to a given stimulus or situation in the same way on different occasions.
What is consistency?
400
The three components are intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment.
What is Sternberg's Tirangular Model of Love.
400
Thinking involving assumptions that don't hold up to rational scrutinty - for example, the belief that things that resemble one another share fundamental properties.
What is magical thinking?
500
The tendency to have more confidence in the accuracy of our own judgments than is reasonable.
What is the overconfidence barrier?
500
Tendency to attribute our own behavior mainly to situational causes but the behavior of others mainly to internal causes.
What is actor-observer bias?
500
Festinger suggested that people compare themselves to others because, for many domains and attributes, there is no objective yardstick with which to evaluate the self, so we compare ourselves to others to gain this information.
What is social comparison theory?
500
The tendency to imagine other outcomes in a situation than the ones that acctually occured.
What is counterfactual thinking?