Social Psych

attribution of success to ones self

taking credit by crediting internal attributes

attributing things to outside factors after a failure is bad for improvement but

self enhancement biases appear stronger in cultures with an

women have more of an ____ sense of self than men

John Bargh returned to the idea of

two types of mental shortcuts

makes available networks around schema for quick thinking. activating neural networks

tendency to interpret, seek, and create info that verifies our pre existing beliefs. eg blondes are dumb.

tendency to presume that someone/ something belongs to a particular group if he/she/it resembles a typical behavior

tendency to perceive events that are easy to remember as more frequent and more likely to happen than events that are more difficult to recall. summer of the shark!

information presented first is more lasting than information presented later

two parts of the attribution theory

3 factors to the kelly correlational model

tendency to attribute the behavior of others to their dispostion (internal), largely ignoring the situational (external)

actors have a tendency to attribute their own behavior to

holding people more accountable for their situation as they should be held

observers favor ______ attributions for other behaviors

mental shortcuts people use to make judgements quickly and efficiently

mental rule of thumb whereby people base a judgement on the ease with which they can bring something to mind

a mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case

information about the relative frequency of members of different categories in the population eg the NYU college guy

mentally changing some aspect of the past as a way of imagining what might have been

we develop a sense of self around

learning about ourselves based on what people think of us. what we think others think of us

comparing ourselves to an "accuracy group"

an aspirational goal comparison

self enhancement comparison

the two factors of the two factor theory of emotion

lining up with ones own personal goals

how others behaviors threatens our self esteem depends on closeness and relevance of behavior

increasing self esteem by associating with others who are successful

goal of ___ ____ is to identify universal properties of human nature that makes everyone susceptible to social influence

conviction that all of us share that we perceive things as they really are

studies that are designed to find the best answer to the question of why people behave as they do and are conducted purely for intellectual curiosity

geared toward solving a particular social problem

people do not use base rate info sufficiently, they pay most attention to

3 situations schemas are typically used in

to express or emit nonverbal behavior, such as smiling or patting someone on the back

to interpret the meaning of the nonverbal behavior other people express

a facial expression in which one part of the face registers one emotion while another part of the face registers a different emotion.

culturally determined rules about which nonverbal behaviors are appropriate to display

type of schema people use to group various kinds of personality traits together. eg nice people must be generous as well

the data we use are about how a persons behavior covaries, or changes across time, place, and different targets of the behavior. by discovering the covariation in behavior we can reach a judgement about what caused a behavior

the seeming importance of information that is the focus of peoples attention

western cultures think more like personality psychologists

self serving bias is strongest in the ___ ____ and other ____ ____

in collectivist cultures such as china people attribute failure to

just world attributions are more likely in

the way in which we present ourselves to other people

men have ____ _____ meaning that they focus on their memberships in larger groups

the idea that when people focus their attention on themselves they evaluate and compare their behavior to their internal standards and values

attitude change resulting from thinking about the reasons for ones attitudes; people assume that their attitudes match the reasons that are plausible and easy to verbilize

the process whereby people adopt another persons attitudes . we automatically adopt the views of people we like, but automatically reject the views of people we do not

ability to make choices about what to do in the present and plan for the future