Ch. 14 - Social Psychology Flashcards
Social Neuroscience
Application of brain imaging and other neuroscience methods to social psychology
Social Cognition
Knowledge and understanding concerning the social world and the people in it
Primacy Effect
Early information about someone weighs more heavily than later information in influencing one’s impression of that person
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
A person’s expectation about another elicits behavior from the second person that confirms the expectation
Attribution Theory
Addresses the question of how people make judgements about the causes of behavior
Fundamental Attribution Error
Tendency of people to overemphasize personal causes for other people’s behavior
Actor-Observer Bias
Tendency to explain behavior of others as caused by internal factors, while attributing one’s own behavior to external forces
Three major components of attitude
Beliefs, feelings, and behavior tendencies
Discrimination
Unfair act or series of acts taken toward an entire group of people or toward individual members of that group
Cognitive Dissonance
Result of the perceived inconsistency between two cognitions
Cultural Truisms
Beliefs or values that most members of a society accept as self-evident
Conformity
Voluntarily yielding to social norms, even at the expense of ones preferences
Door-in-the-face
When a person who did not want to comply with one request agrees to comply with a second, much smaller request
Deindividuation
A loss of personal sense of responsibility in a group
Bystander Effect
Tendency for an individuals helpfulness in an emergency to decrease as the number of passive bystanders increases
