Social Psych Flashcards
Social Neuroscience
An integration of biological and social perspectives that explores the neural and psychological bases of social and emotional behaviour
Social Psychology
The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
Culture
The enduring behaviours, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
Social Representations
Socially shared beliefs - widely held ideas and values, including our assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world.
Hindsight Bias
The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, ones ability to have foreseen how something turned out. Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon