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8B: Social Thinking Flashcards

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What is Attribution Theory?

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It describes how we attach meanings to our own and others behavior; explains how we interpret events around us

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What are the two types of attribution?

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Dispositional (Internal)

Situational (External)

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Dispositional Attribution

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The attitude, characteristics, motivation, emotions, personality, beliefs about a person explain why that person behaves a certain way

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Situational Attribution

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The way that a person behaves is because of a particular situation

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Fundamental Attribution Error

[aka Correspondence Bias or Attribution Effect]

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When we underestimate the impact of a situation AND overestimate the impact of a persons character or personality

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What does Fundamental Attribution Error describe?

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It essentially describes that people tend to judge others based on their dispositional factors rather than situational factors

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How does culture affect attribution?

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Certain cultures have a high value on certain things; some value uniqueness and independence while others value conformity and interdependence.

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Cues

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Things used to understand the behavior of others

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Consistency Cues

“Typical or Random?”

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The more regular behavior, the more we associate that behavior with the motives of the person

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Distinctiveness Cues

“Everyone or Just Me?”

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If a persons behavior varies in different scenarios, we are more likely to form a situational attribution to explain it

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Consensus Cues

“Majority or Singular?”

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If a person deviates from socially expected behavior, we are likely for form a dispositional attribution about the persons behavior

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Actor-Observer Bias

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The tendency to blame our actions on the situation and blame the actions of others on their personalities

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Self-Serving Bias

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The tendency to attribute successes to ourselves and our failures to others or the external environment

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Individuals who view their own success based on internal factors and failures based on external factors are exhibiting

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Self Serving Bias

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Self-Enhancement

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Focuses on the need to maintain self-worth and can be done through internal attribution of successes and external attribution of failure.

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Optimism Bias

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The belief that bad things happen to other people and not to us

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Just World Phenomenon

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A tendency to believe that the world is fair and people get what they deserve

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Halo Effect

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The tendency to believe that people have inherently good or bad natures, rather than looking at individual characteristics

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Impression Bias

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A model of social perception that focuses on our selection of cues to form interpretations of others that are consistent over time.

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Primacy Effect

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First impressions are often more important than subsequent impressions

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Recency Effect

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Most recent information we have about an individual that is the most important in forming our impressions

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Social Perception

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Involves the understanding of others in our social world; the initial information we process about other people in order to try to understand their mindsets and intentions

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Social Cognition

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The ability of the brain to store and process information regarding social perception

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Projection Bias

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We assume others have the same beliefs as we do & since people have a tendency to look for similarities between themselves and others

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False Consensus

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We assume that everyone else agrees with what we do

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Prejudice

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Thoughts, attitudes and feelings someone holds about a group that are not based on actual experience; prejudgment of members of a group

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Types of Prejudice

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Racism, Classism, Sexism, Nationalism, Agism, Homophobia

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What influences prejudice?

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Power, Prestige and Class

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Power

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Ability to control other peoples behavior

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Prestige

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Good reputation, high position in society

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Class

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Upper, middle, lower

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Role of Emotion in Prejudice

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Aroused by expression or thoughts

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Role of Cognition in Prejudice

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What people believe is true

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Stereotype

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Oversimplified ideas about groups of people based on characteristics (such as race, gender, sexuality, religion or disability); they can be positive or negative

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Paternalistic Stereotypes

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The group is looked down upon as inferior, dismissed or ignored

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Contemptuous Stereotypes

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The group is viewed with resentment, annoyance or anger

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Envious Stereotypes

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The group is viewed with jealousy, bitterness or distrust

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Admiration Stereotypes

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The group is viewed with pride and other positive feelings

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Ethnocentrism

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The tendency to judge people from another culture by the standards of ones own culture especially when it comes to language, customs and religion.

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Where does ethnocentrism manifest?

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It can manifest in innocent displays of ethnic pride to violent supremacy groups

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In-Group

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Social group that one identifies his or herself as a member

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Out-Group

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Social group that one does not identify as a member

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Cultural Relativism

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The idea that no culture is superior than the other

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Stigma

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Extreme disapproval from society, groups, culture etc.; Labeling leads to stigma

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Types of Stigma

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Character Traits
Physical
Group Identity

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Pygmalion Effect)

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Occurs when stereotypes lead to behaviors that affirm the original stereotypes; something that occurs that validates a stereotype

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Stereotype Threat

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One feeling at risk of confirming negative stereotypes; people are concerned or anxious about confirming a negative stereotype about their social group

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