Chapter 1 Flashcards
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Social psychology
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The scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people
2
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Social influence
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The effect that the words, actions,
or mere presence of other people
have on our thoughts, feelings,
attitudes, or behavior
3
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Individual differences
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The aspects of people’s
personalities that make them
different from other people
4
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Fundamental attribution error
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The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people’s behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors
5
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Behaviorism
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A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment
6
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Construal
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The way in which people perceive,
comprehend, and interpret the
social world
7
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Gestalt psychology
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A 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
8
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Self-esteem
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People’s evaluations of their own
self-worth—that is, the extent to
which they view themselves as
good, competent, and decent
9
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Social cognition
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How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions
