Lesson 1 (chapter 13) Flashcards
Social psyc
An area of psyc that seeks to understand, explain, and predict how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others
Social cognition
The way in which people perceive and interpret themselves and others in their social world
Attitudes
Relatively stable and enduring evaluations of things and people
ABC model of attitudes
A model proposing that attitudes have three components: the affective component, the behavioural component, and the cognitive component
Cognitive dissonance
A state of emotional discomfort people experience when they hold 2 contradicting beliefs or hold a belief that contradicts their behaviour
Sept perception theory
A theory suggesting that when people are uncertain of their attitudes they infer what the attitudes are by observing their own behaviour
Implicit attitude
An attitude of which the person is unaware
Stereotypes
Fixed overgeneralized and oversimplified beliefs about a person or a group of people based on assumptions about the group
Prejudice
Negative and unjust feelings about individuals based on their inclusion in a particular group
social identity theory
a theory that emphasises social cognitive factors in the onset of prejudice
attributions
causal explanations of behaviour
fundamental attribution error
the tendency to use dispositional attributions to explain the behaviour of other people
actor observer effect
the discrepancy between how we explain other peoples behaviour (dispositionally) and how we explain our own behaviour situationally
self serving bias
the tendency people have to attribute their successes to internal causes and their failures to external ones
social role
a set of norms ascribed to a persons social position, expectation, and duties associated with the individuals position in the family, at work, in the community, and in other settings
