Key Terms Flashcards
What is Social Cryptomnesia?
It is when people have a memory that change has occurred but don’t remember how it happened. Social change clearly did come about so the south is quite a different place now. But some people have no memory (cryptomnesia) of the events that led to that change.
What is a dispositional explanation?
Any explanation of behaviour that highlights the importance of the individuals personality (i.e. their disposition). Such explanations are often contrasted with situational explanations.
What is the Agentic state?
A mental state where we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe ourselves to be acting for an authority figure, i.e. as their agent. This frees us from the demands of our consciences and allows us to obey even a destructive authority figure.
what are situational variables?
Features of the immediate physical and social environment which may influence a person’s behaviour .
