PSYC 11762 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Comparison Theory, Social Influence
26 Jun 2015
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Social psychology : how people think about, influence, and relate to other people. Social cognition: how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information. The power of the first impression (the primacy effect ) Stereotype: generalization about a group"s characteristics that does not account for the individual variability. Humans are biologically built to categorize and cognitively it"s easier for us. Self-fulfilling prophecy: expectations cause individuals to act in ways that make those expectations come true. Stereotype threat: type of self-fulfilling prophecy in which anxiety about being negatively stereotyped actually causes underperformance. Attractiveness: human physical features that others rate as high in objective physical appeal. Attribution: determining why people do what they do. We typically attribute others" behavior to internal causes, even though that is not always accurate. Fundamental attribution error: people tend to overestimate the importance of stable, internal traits and underestimate the importance of temporary, external situations when seeking explanations from other"s behavior.
