Chapter 1 Flashcards
The scientific study of how you feel about, think about and behave toward the people around us, and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are influenced by those people
Social psychology
An understanding of how our knowledge about our social world develops through experience, and the influence of these knowledge structures, on memory, information, processing, attitudes, and judgment
Social cognition
The study of how our social behavior both influences, and is influenced by the activities of our brain
Social neuroscience
The people with whom we interact with every day
Social situation
The process, through which other people change our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and through which we change, there’s
Social influence
The behavior of a given person at any given time is the function of (depends on) both the characteristics of the person and the influence of the social situation
Person – situation – interaction
The assumption, that human nature, including much of our social behavior, is determined largely by our evolutionary past
Evolutionary adaptation
The extent to which, having a given characteristic helps the individual organism to survive and to reproduce at a higher rate than do other members of the species who do not have the characteristic
Fitness (Evolutionary)
The motivation to protect and enhance the self, and the people who are psychologically close to us
Self concern
The motivation to affiliate with, accept, and be accepted by others
Other concern
Strategies that favor, the reproductive success of one’s relative, sometimes even at a cost to the individuals own survival
Kin selection
Those with you, as being similar and important to us, and with whom we share close, social connections
Ingroup
A knowledge representation that includes information about a person or group (e.g., our knowledge that Joe is a friendly guy, or that Italians are romantic)
Schema
A knowledge representation that includes primarily our liking or disliking of a person, thing, or group (“ I really like Julie”; ” I dislike my new apartment”)
Attitude
Feelings we experience as part of our every day lives.
Affect
