Social Psychology chapter 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Social Influence | The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior. |
| 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. |
| Construal | The way in which people percieve, comprehend, and interpret the social world. |
| Individual Differences | The aspects of people's personalitites that make them different from other people. |
| 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. |
| Behaviorism | A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment-that is, how positive and negative events in the environment are associated with specific behaviors. |
| Gestalt Psychology | A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object. |
| Self Esteem | People's evaluation of their own self-worth. That is, the etent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent. |
| Social Cognition | How people think about themselves and the social worldl; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decision. |
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