social psychology (1.1)
Scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by real or imagined presence of other people
social influence (1.1)
- words, actions, or presence have an impact on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behavior
- influences and shapes our thoughts, feelings, and actions
evolutionary psychology view on social behavior (1.1)
- genetic factors evolved over time
- specific adaptations made us more social
construal definition (1.1)
how people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world
fundamental attribution error (1.2)
tendency to explain our own and other people’s behavior in terms of personality traits
what makes people more vulnerable to social influences
more likely to occur when we assume something destructive can happen to us, which makes us less aware as to how susceptible we are to them
liberman, samuels & ross (2004) on fundamental attribution error using a game (1.2)
effect on how people construed a game based on the name and therefore acted differently while playing depending on whether it was supposed to be played cooperatively or competitively
vallone, ross & lepper (1985) study on isreal and palestine (1.2)
example of naive realism
- turned peace proposed made by israel into ones by palestine to see how people in israel would react, they viewed them more positively when they thought it was coming from their own country
gestalt psychology (1.2)
gestalt = whole (in this context, whole mind)
subjective interpretations of an object or situation
naive realism (1.2)
we believe we are right in our opinions and that others are wrong and therefore biased to their own opinions
behaviorism in social psychology (1.2)
rewards lead to good behavior which shapes our behaviors to repeat, and vice versa if punishment occurs, we are more likely to not continue doing that behavior
self-esteem (1.3)
we are motivated to keep a positive sense of self-esteem, which occurs through justifying our behaviors to ourselves rather than learning from our actions
social cognition (1.3)
- study of how people select, interpret, remember, and use information to make judgments and decisions
- even when we try to perceive the world as accurately as we can, that is not always the case as we sometimes end up with the wrong impressions
why study social psychology (1.4)
understand human social behavior on the deepest possible level & contribute to the solution of social problems
