Social psychology Flashcards
Define “confirmation bias.”
Noticing events that confirm your beliefs.
When does the “saliency bias” occur?
When a vivid (salient) stimulus in a situation is viewed as the cause of behavior in that situation.
What is a “self-fulfilling prophecy”?
When one’s expectations alter the behaviors of the targets of those expectations.
What is the “correspondence bias”?
Another name for the fundamental attribution bias, which is the tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional factors.
What is the self-serving bias?
The tendency to take credit for our successes and blame situational factors for our failures.
What is the actor-observer effect?
The tendency to overestimate situational factors and underestimate dispositional factors regarding one’s own behaviors and to underestimate situational factors and overestimate dispositional factors in others.
What is projective identification?
A defense mechanism in which one or more parts of the self are falsely attributed to another, which are then unconsciously accepted by the recipient, and the projector then identifies withe the projected part in the other.
