Chapter 1

Question 1

Social Psychology

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Construal

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 3

the tendency to overestimate the extend to which people’s behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors, and to underestimate the role of situational factors

Question 4

The fundamental attribution error is also called

Answer 4

also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect

Question 5

Behaviorism

Answer 5

a school of psych. maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment

Question 6

Gestalt psychology

Answer 6

a school of psych. stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in epeople’s minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object (such as how people perceive a painting - colors, composition, brush strokes, shapes)

Question 7

Two motives that underlie our thoughts and behaviors that are of primary importance:

Answer 7

1. the need to feel good about ourselves and 2. the need to be accurate

Question 8

Social cognition

Answer 8

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