PSYCH253 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fundamental Attribution Error, Pluralistic Ignorance, In-Group Favoritism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH253
• Professor: Hilary B Bergsieker

Document Summary

Human flourishing major lessons of social psychology. Theoretical: situations exert a much more powerful influence on behaviour than we realize. Power of the situation: examples: conformity, obedience, bystander nonintervention, social facilitation, deindividuation, stereotype threat, proximity and attraction. Power of the situation: failure to see it: the fundamental attribution error, pluralistic ignorance, self-fulfilling prophecies, we see ourselves (and everything associated with us) in a positive light. Self-enhancement: examples: self-serving bias, in-group bias, similarity and attraction, temporal self-appraisals, social comparisons, self-evaluation maintenance, we process social information through two routes: central and peripheral. Peripheral processing: examples: persuasion (advertising, confirmation bias, the power of scripts, influence tactics (i. e. foot-in-the-door, thought tends to be more rationalizing than it is rational. Rationalization: examples: our own behaviour (i. e. cognitive dissonance, the status quo, status advantages, group differences. Practical - top 10 practical lessons of social psychology: child rearing (aggression) Don"t let your children play violent video games or see too much violence in movies and tv.