PSYC 2120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Self-Justification, Self-Perception Theory
10 Mar 2016
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Social psychology 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 behaviours, ideas, attitudes, traditions, shared by large groups of people, passed down to generations. Social representations socially shared beliefs, widely held ideas and values which help to make sense of the 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 tendency to exaggerate after learning an outcome, ones ability to have foreseen how something turned out (i knew it all along phenomenon) 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. Measurement process of assigning numbers to things. Variables attributes/characteristics that vary from individual to individual.
