Social psychology 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologySocial psychologyUniversityNone Created by: victoriaCreated on: 07-10-15 05:35 What is social psychology? The scientific study of people's attitudes, beliefs and behaviours in the context of their social environment 1 of 31 What is the overconfidence bias?y A tendency to over-estimate one's accuracy/ability 2 of 31 What is social perception? Forming an impression of a person 3 of 31 What is the primacy effect? Being affected by the first set of information that becomes available to you 4 of 31 What are schemas? Cognitive structures that summarize the world and your previous experiences, they affect your focus of attention etc 5 of 31 What is the perceiver's implicit personality theory? A belief in how certain personal characteristics operate or are related 6 of 31 Why is social perception affected by the perceiver's psychological needs? There is a need to protect one's self worth 7 of 31 What is impression management? Creating and maintaining the desired public self 8 of 31 What is does a high self-monitorer do? They are sensitive to situational cues 9 of 31 What is narcissm? They think of higher of self than others 10 of 31 What is symbolic interactionism? Interpreting gestures of others in order to express oneself 11 of 31 What is the spotlight effect? Overestimation of others attention on ourselves 12 of 31 What is the self-serving motive? Wanting to feel good about ourselves 13 of 31 What is the better than average effect? Genuine belief that one is better 14 of 31 What is the false consensus effect? The overestimation of the no. of people sharing one's own view or undesirable characteristics 15 of 31 What is the false uniqueness effect? Underestimation of the no of people in possession of one's own desirable characteristics and overestimation of one's likelihood to do good 16 of 31 What is the fundamental attribution error? The inclination to look for dispositional rather than situational explanations for other's behaviour 17 of 31 What is social role bias? The insensitivity to the effect of roles 18 of 31 What is assymetric insight illusion? Most people think they know their friends better than their friends know them 19 of 31 What is a stereotype? The belief that attitudes of group members are found in many 20 of 31 What is prejudice? The negative evaluation of someone due to the stereotype 21 of 31 What is discrimination? Negative behaviour towards a prejudiced person 22 of 31 What is realistic conflict theory? Competition for resources are threatened so scapegoating happens and is worsened by strong emotions 23 of 31 What is cognitive capacity theory? Resorting to stereotypes due to a lack of time or information or time of day or emotions 24 of 31 What is social learning theory? Beliefs are strengthened by observing others 25 of 31 What is social identity theory? people classify other's characteristics and compare people to ourselves 26 of 31 What is outgroup homogeneity? Believing members of the outgroup are all the same 27 of 31 What is ingroup heterogeneity? Believing the ingroup is better 28 of 31 What does group membership foster? Pride 29 of 31 What is the ultimate attribution bias? Attributing an outgroup member's undesirable acts dispositionally but desirable acts to the situation 30 of 31 What is self consciousness/ illusory discrimination? Perception of being discriminated against is flawed and responses may elicit negative behaviours 31 of 31
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