CH1 - An invitation to social psychology

Question 1

What is social psychology?

Answer 1

scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations

Question 2

What is the fundamental attribution error?

Answer 2

Tendency to overemphasize importance of personal dispositions bc difficulty to see power of situation

Question 3

Describe what a construal is

Answer 3

How individuals perceive, comprehend, and interpret the world around them, particularly the behaviour/action of others towards themselves.
Social psychology focuses on the role of construal.

Question 4

Which word has the following definition?

Stored representations of numerous repetitions of highly similar stimuli + situations. They tell us how to interpret situations + how to behave in them

Answer 4

Schema

Question 5

What is a stereotype?

Answer 5

Stereotypes are a schema of people, that serve to guide our interpretation and behavior but that can often be mistaken and/or misapplied, leading to damaging behavior

Question 6

Believing that because things are in a particular way means they should be that way

Answer 6

The naturalistic fallacy

Question 7

What are independent/individualistic societies characterized by?

Answer 7

Characterized by fewer social relationships of a looser sort.
Ie often in Western countries

Question 8

What are interdependent/collectivistic societies defined by?

Answer 8

characterized by many relationships of highly prescribed nature, ie Japan