Social Thought and Behavior Flashcards
What is Social Perception?
The study of how people form impressions and make inferences about other people as sovereign personalities. People learn about other’s feelings and emotions by picking up info they gather from a physical appearance, verbal and non-verbal communication.
What is Attribution?
The process through which we seek to determine the causes behind other’s behavior. Assessing if the person’s behavior stems from INTERNAL or EXTERNAL causes.
What is Consensus?
Information regarding the extent to which behavior by one person is known by others as well.
What is Consistency?
Information regarding the extent to which a specific person shows similar behavior to a given stimuli or
What is Distinctiveness?
Information regarding the extent to which a given person reacts in the same manner to a different stimuli or situation.
What is a bias?
A Bias is a general pattern or a tendency to think a certain way. It is a quick routeour brains take in order to make decisions quickly. Biases can be practical and common but sometimes negative biases can develop as well.
What is Social Influence?
The many ways in which we attempt to change other’s behavior and they attempt to change ours.
OR
Efforts made by one or more people to change the attitude(s) or behavior(s) of one or more people around them.
FOR EXAMPLE: “Peer Pressure.”
What is Conformity?
A type of social influence in which individuals change their attitudes or behaviors in order to adhere to existing social norms.
What are the two types of Social Norms?
The two types of Social Norms are:
a) . Descriptive Social Norm(s
(b) . Injunctive Social Norm(s)
What are Descriptive Social Norms?
Descriptive Social Norms are what most people do in any given situation.
What are Injunctive Social Norms?
An Injunctive Social Norm is what should be done in a given situation.
