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Question 1

Social Psychology

Answer 1

The scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people

Question 2

Social Influence

Answer 2

The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior

Question 3

Evolutionary Psychology

Answer 3

The attempt to explain social behavior in terms of genetic factors that have evolved over time according to the principles of natural selection

Question 4

Construal

Answer 4

The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world

Question 5

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 5

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people’s behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors

Question 6

Behaviorism

Answer 6

A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment

Question 7

Gestalt Psychology

Answer 7

A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people’s minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object

Question 8

Naïve realism

Answer 8

The conviction that we perceive things “as they really are, underestimating how much we are interpreting or “spinning” what we see

Question 9

Self-Esteem

Answer 9

People’s evaluations of their own self-worth- that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent

Question 10

Social Cognition

Answer 10

How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions