Final - Chapter 12 Flashcards
Social cognition
The thoughts we have about the stimuli in our environment
Social attribution
The process by which individuals explain the causes of their own behavior and the behavior of others
Fundamental attribution error
Attributing a person’s behavior to what we assume to be their personality rather than external factors
Self-serving bias
The tendency to credit successes to internal factors and failures to external factors
In-group bias / favoritism
Believing our in-group is better than other groups; and benefitting our in-group through thoughts and/or actions
Group-serving bias
Maintaining a positive evaluation of our in-group despite evidence to the contrary
Social comparison
Self-evaluation by comparing oneself to others
Proximity and similarity principles
Principles that describe how people perceive objects
Proximity principle
Objects that are closer together are perceived as being more related than objects that are further apart
Similarity principle
Objects that appear similar are grouped together and tend to be thought of as having the same function
Stereotype
The assumption that all members of a particular group share certain characteristics or behaviors
Prejudice
Negative attitudes resulting from stereotypes
Discrimination
Negative action stemming from a stereotype
ABC model of attitude
Every attitude has three components: Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive
Affective/evaluative component
Represents the emotions/feelings associated with an attitude towards something
