Test 1 Flashcards
(23 cards)
What are the four values of social psychology
Accuracy-error free/Objectivity-removing bias/Skepcism-dont believe everything you read. Open-mindedness- changing views if the new information brought about is better
What are the ABCs of social psychology
A-Affect-B-Behaviour-C-Cognition
What is Self-serving bias?
The tendency to perceive and present oneself favorably
What is False consensus?
people that overestimate the way they feel or how something affects them must be the same for other people
What is false uniqueness
underestimating how uniqueness other people also are. They are a “snowflake”
Whats one way to enhance self-esteem?
Downward social comparison. (compairing yourself to someone worse off)
What creates grater jealousy?
When someone close to you expresses achievements in the same domain as you
What is Terror management theory?
propose why positive self esteem is adaptive- its buffers anxiety
What does construal mean
how people perceive and comprehend the social world
Social psychology faces two contradictory criticism. What are they?
1) It is trivial because it documents the obvious
2) Dangerous because its findings could be used to manipulate people
What is the “ I know it all along phenomenon” called?
Hindsight bias
When do people engage in hindsight bias?
When they have a sense of certainty around the set of conditions
What is counterfactual thinking?
How people think about the way they could have changed the outcome
pretending that an event has occurred leads us to____
See more reasons for its occurrence and unltimately to assign it a higher probability of it becoming a reality
What is self-concept
Affects how we perceive ourselves and others as well as how they perceive us
What is the self-reference effect?
When information is relevant to our self-concept we process it quickly and remeber it well
What is self-assessment
seeking the honest assessment of who we ar
What is self enhancement
Wanting to make ourselves look better( doesnt have to be honest)
What is self verification
Wanting people to conform what we already know
Social comparison theory( lean festinger)
centers on the belief that there is a drive within individuals to gain accurate self-evaluations.
Self-efficacy
The sense that one is competent and effective
What is Locus if control
The believe that what happens to people and others is controllable. In other words having control over the outcome
What does attribution mean
the action of regarding something as being caused by a person or thing.
