Chapter 1: TB Intro Flashcards
What is Social Psychology?
the scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another.
Person to person interactions
What category does this fall under?
How we perceive ourselves and others?
Social Thinking
What category does this fall under?
What we believe
Social Thinking
What category does this fall under?
Judgement we make and our attitudes
Social Thinking
What category does this fall under?
Cultures
Social Influence
What category does this fall under?
Pressures to Perform and Persuasion
Social Influence
What category does this fall under?
Groups of people
Social Influence
What category does this fall under?
Prejudice and Aggresion
Social Relations
What category does this fall under?
Attraction
Social Relations
What category does this fall under?
Helping
Social Relations
What category does this fall under?
We construct our social reality.
social thinking
-people react and think differently
-we always want to attribute someone
What category does this fall under?
Our social intuitions are powerful and sometimes, dangerous (perilous)
Social Thinking
-instant intuitions shape fears, impressions and relationships
-we think on intuitive and deliberate levels (system 1 and system 2)
-we misread our own minds
What category does this fall under?
Attitudes shape and ARE shaped by behavior
Social Thinking
What category does this fall under?
Social influences shape behavior.
Social Influences
-we adapt to our social contexts
-behaviors/attitudes are shapped by external social forces
-culture helps define situations
-sometimes we can differently than our expressed attitudes
What category does this fall under?
Dispositions shape behavior
Social Influences
-internal forces shape behavior just as much as external
-attitudes also follow behavior
-personality dispositions (we all react differently to the same situation)
