Invitation To Social Psych

Question 1

Social Psychology

Answer 1

Scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations

Question 2

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 2

Failure to recognize the importance of situational influences on behavior, and the corresponding tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions on behavior

Question 3

Dispositions

Answer 3

Internal factors, such as beliefs, values, personality traits, and abilities, that guide a persons behavior

Question 4

Channel Factors

Answer 4

Situational circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface but that can have great consequences for behavior - facilitating it, blocking it, or guiding it in a particular direction

Question 5

Construal

Answer 5

An interpretation of or inference about the stimuli or situations people confront

Question 6

Schema

Answer 6

A knowledge structure consisting of any organized body of stored information

Question 7

Theory of Mind

Answer 7

Understanding that other people have beliefs and desires

Question 8

Naturalistic Fallacy

Answer 8

Claim that we are biologically predisposed to do what we inevitably will do