Quiz 4 Flashcards
Social psychology
The study of how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by interactions with others
Social cognition
The perception, storage, and retrieval of information about social interactions
Physical proximity
The distance of one person to another person
Stimulation value
The ability of a person to interest you in or to expose you to new ideas and experiences
Utility value
The ability of a person to help another achieve his or her goal
Ego-support value
The ability of a person to provide another person with sympathy, encouragement, and approval
Complementarity
The attraction that often develops between opposite types of people because of the ability of one to supply what the other lacks
Primacy effect
The tendency to form opinions about others based on first impressions
Stereotype
A set of assumptions about people in a given category summarizing our experience and beliefs about groups of people
Attribution theory
The process by which we interpret and explain others behaviors
Fundamental attribution error
An inclination to over attribute others’ behavior to external causes and discount the situational factors contributing to their behavior
Actor-observer bias
Tendency to attributes one’s own behavior to outside causes but attribute the behaviors of others to internal causes
Nonverbal communication
The process through which messages are conveyed using space, body language, and facial expression
Generational identity
The theory that people in different ages tend to think differently about certain issues because different formative experiences
Group
Collection of people have shared goals, a degree of interdependence, and some amount of communication
