SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards
Social psychology
the study of how individual or group behavior is influenced by the presence and behavior of others.
Person perception
How we form impressions of other people
Physical Appearance
Attractive/Good Looking people are seen as…
- good people
- social, friendly, warm, and well-adjusted
- more likely to get a job
Sterotypes
general beliefs about a group of people’s traits. These ideas can be right or wrong, and they can be good or bad.”
What are the most common sterotypes based on?
Gender, age, race, ethnicity, occupation…
Illusory correlation
Ex: A person who has a bad experience with lawyers concludes that all lawyers are crooks.
Thinking you’ve seen proof of certain social traits more than you actually have.
Stereotypes
In-group
a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member
Out-group
a social group with which an individual does not identify
Attributions
a process where people ascribe causes of behavior to different inferences
Internal Attributions
ascribe causes of behavior to personal traits
External Attributions
ascribing causes of behavior to environmental traits
Fundamental attribution error
using internal attributions to explain others behavior
Self-serving bias
ascribing ones success to personal factors and their failure towards situational factors
Conformity
A change in one’s behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people.
Conformity
What was Asch’s study
people would often give the wrong answer to a question, even if they knew it was wrong, just to go along with the group.
