Chapter 11: Social Psychology

Question 1

Social Psychology

Answer 1

study of how a persons thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence of other people and the environment

Question 2

Social Cognition

Answer 2

mental processes people use to make sense of their social environments

Question 3

attribution

Answer 3

inferring the causes of a persons behavior

Question 4

situational

Answer 4

the cause of the behavior is in the situation or environment

Question 5

Dispositional

Answer 5

cause of behavior is from the persons

Question 6

Just World Hypothesis

Answer 6

good things happen to good people

Bad things happen to bad people

Question 7

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 7

tendency to overestimate personality factors and underestimate situational influence

Question 8

The Actor-Observer Effect

Answer 8

Tendency to make situational attributions for our own behavior and dispositional for others

Question 9

Self-Serving bias

Answer 9

choosing dispositional for our positive behavior and situational for our negative ones

Question 10

Prejudice

Answer 10

a negative attitude toward people who belong to a specific social group (Feelings)

Question 11

Stereotypes

Answer 11

a cluster of characteristics that are associated with all members of a specific social group (Thinking)

Question 12

Stereotype benefit

Answer 12

allows