Unit 1.1

Question 1

What is the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

Answer 1

Social psychology

Question 2

Who are the people that study groups to analyze their behavior and thinking

Answer 2

Social psychologists

Question 3

What is it called when you form impressions of yourself and other people including someone’s motives/ what they do (forming ideas of who people are)

Answer 3

Person perception

Question 4

What is the term for how someone assesses and describes how an event happens to them (can be positive or negative)

Answer 4

Explanatory style

Question 5

The ________ theory states that we have a tendency to explain someone’s behavior as either due to there ______ or that person’s ______ or personality/attitude

Answer 5

Attribution
Situation, disposition

Question 6

The human tendency to overestimate someone’s disposition and underestimate the situation they may be in is called the ________ _______ _______.

Ex: someone cuts you off while driving and you are quick to think they are jerks

Answer 6

Fundamental attributions error

Question 7

The idea when something happens to yourself and you are quick to blame it on the situation instead of your own disposition

Answer 7

Actor-observer bias

Question 8

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

Ex: asking a specific parent a question because you believe they will give you the response you want

Answer 8

Attitude

Question 9

Your __________ can effect your __________ (and vise versa)

Answer 9

Attitude/actions

Question 10

When someone asks a person to do a large task in preparation for them to ask them again to do a small task (leads to a person to be more willing to do bigger task)

Answer 10

Foot in the door phenomenon