Lecture: Introduction

Question 1

According to the lecture, what is social psychology?

Answer 1

An attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and actions of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others

Question 2

What gets influence?

Answer 2

Thoughts
feelings
behavior/actions

Question 3

Who’s influencing?

Answer 3

Actual people
Imagined people
Implied people

Question 4

Situationism

Answer 4

Situations/context matters, and we underestimate its power
Behavior in one domain doesn’t equal behavior elsewhere
individual differences matters

Question 5

Subjectivism

Answer 5

How a person interprets a situation (can be different between individuals)

Question 6

What determines construal?

Answer 6

Two motives: the need to feel good about ourselves (motivational motives) and the need to be accurate (cognitive reasons)

Question 7

Dunning-Kruger effect

Answer 7

A cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities

Question 8

Study about Dunning-Kruger effect

Answer 8

In one study participants had to rate jokes and then asked how good at rating jokes. The worst people at rating jokes believe they are good at rating jokes.

Question 9

Interviewer illusion

Answer 9

The poor ability of an interview to predict actual job performance