Chapter 10 - Social Psychology Flashcards
Social Psych
Social psychology
How our thoughts feelings and behaviors are influenced by others
Attributions
Attributions
Inferences people draw about their own and others behavior - making meaning out of life
Internal attributions
External attributions
Stability of causes
Internal attributions
When the cause of the behavior is attributed to people’s Personal predispositions, traits, feelings,
External attributions
Cause is because of the environmental constraints/demands
Stability of causes
Stable: persons innate abilities, task difficulty
Unstable - persons present mood, luck
Types of mental biases (5 types)
Types of mental biases
Actor observer bias
The fundamental attribution error error
Self serving bias
Gender bias
Cultural bias
Actor observer bias
Actor observer bias
Person doing behavior (actor) is more likely to make external attribution
Person watching behavior is more likely to attribute it to internal
The fundamental attribution error error
The fundamental attribution error error
People attribute someone’s behavior towards internal influences and not external factors
Jones and Harris debate experiment:
When the observer listened to speeches told they were assigned aff/neg
Self serving bias
Self serving bias
We are more likely to attribute success to internal attributions and failures to external factors
Gender bias
Gender bias
Women who do well at men’s tasks are seen as lucky, placed on external attributions
Cultural bias
Individualism culture
Collectivism
Cultural bias
Individualism culture
Favor individual goals
Do what you want
Tend to promote self serving and attribute
Collectivism
Works as a group effacing bias (make seem insignificant)
Attraction
Attraction
The natural feeling of being drawn to other individuals and desiring their company.
Matching hypothesis
Similarity
Proximity
Reciprocity
Matching hypothesis
Males and females of similar physical attractiveness select each other
Similarity Age race religion class education intelligence attitude
Proximity
Physical distance v functional distance
Reciprocity
We like people who like us back
Halo effect
Halo effect
Occurs when an overall imppression to a character company or product
Attitudes
Attitudes
Evaluation of a person place thing or effect
Components of attitude
Components of attitude
Affect - emotions
Behavior - predisposition to act
Cognition - beliefs and ideas (schemas)
Components of attitude
Affect
Behavior
Cognition
Components of attitude
Affect - emotions
Behavior - predisposition to act
Cognition - beliefs and ideas (schemas)
