Social Psychology Flashcards
Social cognition
Refers to the way we interpret and understand social events.
Social psychology
The study of how individuals relate to others.
Social comparison
Individuals judge their thoughts and behaviors by comparing themselves to the group. Reduce his doubt about one’s beliefs.
Attitudes
Stable opinions that affect feelings, thoughts, and behaviors about an issue.
Cognitive dissonance
A state of unpleasant psychological tension that motivates us to reduce our cognitive inconsistencies by making our beliefs more consistent with one another.
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Stereotyping
Beliefs about people based on their group membership.
Prejudices
Undeserved, negative beliefs about people based on their group membership.
Attribution
Explanations for the causes of events, other people’s behavior, and our own behavior.
Fundamental attribution error
The tendency to explain behavior as an effect of disposition rather than situation.
Self-serving bias
Attribute in one success is to internal causes and once failures to external causes; taking credit for successes rather than failures.
Social role series
Behavior is a function of a person social role, such as gender or race.
Role
Social position governed by norms; more relevant one person is away from the group.
Zimbardos prison study
Students assigned to guard or prisoner rolls and behavior changed to fit the sign role, guards, abusive; prisoners, passive and scared.
