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Social Psychology

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study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by real or imagined presence of others

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Social Influence

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effect that the words, actions, or presence of others have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes and/or the behavior of others

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Construal

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way in which people perceive, comprehend and interpret the social world

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Power of Social Interpretation

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importance of understanding how we comprehend and interpret the world and understand objective properties

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Function of Schemas

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organization- useful to help us figure out confusing situations

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Accessibility

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extent which schemas and concepts are at the forefront of people’s mind and therefore likely used when we make judgements

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Which schemas are applied?

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the ones that are the most accessible

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social perception

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study of how we form impressions of and make inferences about other people

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Nonverbal behavior

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refers to how people communicate. intentionally or unintentionally without words

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mirror neurons

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respond when we perform an action when we see someone else perform the same action

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nonverbal communication is

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species specific according to Darwin

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Why can decoding be inaccurate?

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1. one part of the face can register one emotion and the other part of the face displays a different emotion
2. culture

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Display rules

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particular to each culture and dictate what kinds of emotional expressions people are suppose to show

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Emblems

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Clear and well understood gestures (not universal)

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Implicit Personality Theory

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A type of shcema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together

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Attribution Theory

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description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people’s bxh

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Fritz Heider

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father of attribution theory

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Internal attributions

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inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about that person such as attitude, character or personality

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External Attributon

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inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the situation he/she is in

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Why do schemas become accessible?

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1. chronic accessibility due to past experiences
   2.relation to current goal
2. recent experiences

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Priming

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process by which recent experiences increase accessibitity (example of auto thinking)

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Covariation Model

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-developed by Harold Kelley
-states that to form an attribution about what caused a person’s bxh, we need to note the pattern between the presence or absence of possible causal factors and whether or not the bxh occurs

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Self -fulfilling Prophecy

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People unintentionallly making schemas come true because of their bxh
eg- I’m gonna fail this test so i wont study because I’m going to fail

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Availability Heuristic

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people based judgement on the ease with which they can bring it to mind

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Representativeness Heuristic

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mental shortcut we use to classify something according to how similar it is

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Base rate information

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information about frequency of members of different categories

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Judgmental Heuristics

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base on judgement, quick decision, rule of thumb,

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6 universal expressions

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anger, happy, disgusted, scared, sadness, surprise

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decode

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interpret with accuracy

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encode

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express with emotion in the same way

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Correspondence Bias

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the tendency to infer that people's bxh correspond to or matches their dispositions and personality

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Sociology

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general laws and theories about society and not individuals

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's bxh is due to internal, dispositional factors and the underestimation of situational factors

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The Self esteem approach

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justifying past bxh and Suffering and self justification

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Justifying Past bxh

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shifting blame off of one's self

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suffering and self justification

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-tendency for indiviuals to increase their liking for something they have worked hard for to justify the hard work they put in -convincing self it was worth it

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Social cognition

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how people think about themselves and the social world -how people select, interpret, remember and use social knowledge to make judgements and decisions

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Automatic Thinking

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thinking that is unconsious , unintentional, involuntary and effortless

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Schema

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mental structures that organize our knowlegde about the world

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Where we get information from

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-distinctiveness -consensus -consistency

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distinctiveness

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extent in which an individual acts in the presence or absence of stimuli

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consensus

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extent in which a stimulus makes other actors perform that bxh

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consistency

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extent which bxh between the actor and the stimulus takes place over time

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Ironic Processing

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not foretting due to mental exhaustion and remembering the event even more due to ur efforts to forget it

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Self-Serving Attributions

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when people's self-esteem is threathened, they often make self-serving attributions: explanations for one's successes that credit internal dispositional factors and explanations for one's failures that blame ext. sit. factors