Social Psychology

Social Psychology

The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people is?

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors is?

Construal

The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world?

Social Cognition

How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions is?

Social Influence

The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior is?

Schemas

Mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects and that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember are…

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

The case whereby people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people’s original expectations, making the expectations come true is…

Priming

The process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, or concept is…

Accessibility

The extent to which schemas and concepts are at the forefront of people’s minds and are therefore likely to be used when making judgments about the social world is…

Perceptual Salience

The seeming importance of information that is the focus of people’s attention

Construal

The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world 

Self-esteem approach

The need to feel good about ourselves.

• Justifying past behavior 

• Suffering and self-justification 

Social cognition approach

The need to be accurate.

• Social Cognition 

• Expectations about the social world 

Facial Expressions of Emotions 

Anger, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, and sadness

• All humans

  • Encode or express these emotions in the same way 

  • Decode or interpret with equal accuracy 

Schemas

Mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects and that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember