PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biopsychosocial Model, Social Desirability Bias, Hazel Rose Markus
11 Mar 2013
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Social psychology: the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Social neuroscience: an integration of biological and social perspectives that explores the neural and psychological bases of social and emotional behaviours. Culture: the enduring behaviours, ideas, attitudes, traditions, products, and institutions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Widely held ideas and values, including our assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of our world. Naturalistic fallacy: the error of defining what is good in terms of what is observable. What"s typical is normal; what"s normal is good. Hindsight bias: the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one"s ability to have foreseen how something turned out. Theory: an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Hypothesis: a testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events.
