social thinking

Question 1

attribution theory

Answer 1

Fritz suggested we have a tendency to give casual explanations for someone’s behavior, often by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition (giving the benefit of the doubt)

Question 2

fundamental attribution error

Answer 2

tendency to overestimate the impact of a personal disposition and underestimate the impact of the situations in analyzing the behaviors of others.

Question 3

attitudes

Answer 3

a belief and feeling that predisposes a person to respond in a particular way to objects, other people, and events.

Question 4

foot in the door phenomenon

Answer 4

the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request. “may as well, i already started”

Question 5

roles (zimbardo study)

Answer 5

• role playing affects attitudes
• random students were assigned roles as guards and prisoners and they developed role-appropriate attitudes.

Question 6

cognitive dissonance

Answer 6

actions affect attitudes because when they’re opposed, we experience tension.

Question 7

social psych

Answer 7

studies how we think about, influence, and relate to one another