Invitation To Social Psych Flashcards

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Social Psychology

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Scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Failure to recognize the importance of situational influences on behavior, and the corresponding tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions on behavior

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Dispositions

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Internal factors, such as beliefs, values, personality traits, and abilities, that guide a persons behavior

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Channel Factors

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Situational circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface but that can have great consequences for behavior - facilitating it, blocking it, or guiding it in a particular direction

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Construal

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An interpretation of or inference about the stimuli or situations people confront

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Schema

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A knowledge structure consisting of any organized body of stored information

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Theory of Mind

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Understanding that other people have beliefs and desires

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Naturalistic Fallacy

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Claim that we are biologically predisposed to do what we inevitably will do

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