PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Evolutionary Psychology, Terror Management Theory, Fundamental Attribution Error
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Social psychology: the scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Construal: the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to overestimate the extent to which peo- ple"s behavior stems from internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors. Behaviorism: a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment-that is, how posi- tive and negative events in the environment are associated with specific behaviors. Gestalt psychology: a school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people"s minds, rather than the objective physical attributes of the object. Part iii: where construals come from: basic human motives. The self-esteem approach: the need to feel good about ourselves.
