Attribution & Person
The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
Social Psychology
The amount of information a person is thinking about.
Cognitive Load
Shared expectations about how people should behave in a particular context.
Social Norms
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
Personality
A need or desire that energizes and directs our behavior towards a goal.
Motivation
The theory that deals with how we explain the causes of our behavior and other's behavior.
Attribution Theory
A belief about a whole group of people that is often wrong or oversimplistic.
Stereotype
Theory that explains the ways in which individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are affected by others.
Social Influence Theory
Emphasizes the importance of early childhood experiences and the unconscious mind.
Psychodynamic theory
A theory of motivation that states people are highly motivated to satisfy their physiological and psychological needs.
Drive Reduction Theory
Explains behavior based on external factors such as one's enviornment.
Situational Attribution
An attitude that we have without even realizing it.
Implicit Attitude
A type of social influence in which we conform to be liked or accepted by a group. It is driven by a desire for social approval.
Normative Social Influence
In the psychodynamic personality theory this operates on the pleasure principle. Entirely unconscious.
ID
Choosing between a 7 day vacation in Italy or a 7 day vacation in France. (2 positive choices)
Approach-Approach
These are 2 different types of explanatory styles people use to explain good and bad events in their lives and in the lives or others.
Optimistic and Pessimistic
A bias in which thinking everyone in the outgroup is the same.
Out-group Homogenesis Bias
A type of social influence in which one conforms because we believe others have accurate information and know its right. It is driven by a desire to be correct.
Informational Social Influence
In the psychodynamic personality theory, this operates on the reality principle. Seeks to gratify Ids impulses realistically.
Ego
A complex psychological state involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.
Emotions
Overemphasizing dispositional factors and underemphasizing situational factors when explaining others behavior.
Fundamental Attribution Error
The tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
Just-World Phenomenon
Occurs when a group of like-minded people reinforce each other's opinions, positive or negative, and these opinions become more extreme as they are discussed.
Group Polarization
In the psychodynamic personality theory, this represents internalized ideals/conscience. Strives for perfection.
Superego
These are our 6 universal basic emotions.
Fear, Disgust, Anger, Happiness, Surprise, Sadness