Chapter 1

Question 1

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 1

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people’s behaviour stems from personality traits and to underestimate the role of situational factors

Question 2

Behaviourism

Answer 2

A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behaviour, one needed on to consider the reinforcing properties of the environment

Question 3

Gestalt

Answer 3

The school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people’s minds, rather than the objective physical attributes of the object.

Question 4

Self-esteem

Answer 4

People’s valuation of there own self worth.

Question 5

Social cognition

Answer 5

How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgements and decision

Question 6

Social psychology

Answer 6

The scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people.

Question 7

Construal

Answer 7

The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world