PSYCH253 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Observer-Expectancy Effect, Hazel Rose Markus, Implicit-Association Test
27 Oct 2016
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Psych 253- social psychology midterm #1 definitions/ concepts: chapter 1-3. 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 behaviors. Culture: the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, traditions, products, and institutions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Social representations: socially shared beliefs; 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 (ex: 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; also known as the i-knew-it- all-along phenomenon.
