Chapter 17- Social Cognition Flashcards
Social cognition
Mental processes associated with people’s perceptions of and reactions to other people.
Social psychology
The study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior influence and are influenced by the behavior of others.
Self-concept
The way one thinks of oneself.
Self-esteem
The evaluations one makes about how worthy one is as a human being.
Social comparison
Using other people as a basis of comparison for evaluating oneself.
Reference groups
Categories of people to which people compare themselves.
Relative deprivation
The belief that, in comparison to a reference group, one is getting less than is deserved.
Social identity
The beliefs we hold about the groups to which we belong.
Social perception
The processes through which people interpret information about others, draw inferences about them, and develop mental representations of them.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
A process through which our expectations about another person cause us to act in ways that lead the person to behave as we expected.
Attribution
The process of explaining the causes of people’s behavior, including our own.
Fundamental attribution error
A bias toward over attributing the behavior of others to internal causes.
Outgroup
Those whom we perceive as being different from ourselves.
Ingroup
Those whom we perceive as being similar to ourselves.
Actor-observer effect
The tendency to attribute other people’s behavior to internal causes while attributing our own behavior (especially errors and failures) to external causes.
