PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Asch Conformity Experiments, Social Exchange Theory, Groupthink
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Social psychology: scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people: social cognition, social behavior, social influence, social relationships. Explores how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information: person perception, attribution, the self as a social object, attitudes. Person perception: processes by which social stimuli, such as faces, are used to form impressions of others. Physical attractiveness: self- fulfilling prophecy of expectations. Attribution theory: people as motivated to discover underlying causes of behavior to make sense of behavior: internal/external causes, stable/unstable causes, controllable/uncontrollable causes. Actor: produces behavior, explanations for behavior in terms of external causes. Observer: offers casual explanation of the actor"s (cid:271)ehavior, explanations in terms of internal causes. Fundamental attribution error: co(cid:373)(cid:373)itted (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:271)servers e(cid:454)plai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:272)tor"s (cid:271)ehavior, overestimation of internal traits, underestimation of external situations. Self-serving bias: tendency to take credit for successes and deny responsibility for failures. Stereotype threat: fast acting, self-fulfilling fear of being judged based on a negative stereotype.
