Lecture 15: Social cognition Flashcards
Social psychology
An individual’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by social situations.
Intrapersonal
Emotions and attitudes, self and social cognition.
Interpersonal
Helping behaviour, prejudice and discrimination, aggression
Explicit processes
Conscious thoughts are deliberative, effortful, relatively slow, generally under intentional control.
Implicit processes
Unconscious thought, they are intuitive, automatic, effortless, very fast, and operate largely outside of our intentional control.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Our snap judgment affects how we treat people, who pick up on this, act that way, and then confirm our prediction.
False consensus effect
Tendency to project self-concepts onto the social world.
Naive realism
Our assumption that our perceptions of reality are accurate, that we see things the way they are.
Dispositionism
The view that our behaviour is determined by internal factors
Situationism
The view that our behaviour and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings.
Fundamental attribution error
Our tendency to over-emphasize internal attributions and under-emphasize situational factors.
Just-world hypothesis
Belief that people get the outcomes they deserve.
