Chapter One: Introduction to Social Psychology Flashcards
Social Psychology
The scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influence by the real or imagined presence of other people
Construal
The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world
Individual Differences
The aspects of people’s personalities that make them different from other people
Fundamental Attribution Error
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people’s behaviour stems from personality traits and to underestimate the role of situational factors
Behaviourism
A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behaviour, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment
Gestalt Psychology
A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people’s mins, rather than the objective physical attributes of the object
Self-Esteem
People’s evaluations of their own self worth
Social Cognition
How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information
