CAS PS 261 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Collectivism, Stereotype, Tobacco Smoking

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 261
• Professor: Mercurio

Document Summary

Attributions are important for forming impressions of people as well as for blaming the victim (blaming the victim for putting him/her self at risk). The victim"s actions are the reason of the bad event happening. Persuasive tactic that marketers use is announcing that a product is going into the vault . This strategy makes people buy things because it threatens their freedom (to use the product). Keep in mind that the environment always affects people. What are the effects of prejudice and discrimination? (health, performance, career aspiration, job prospects). Social psychology is the scienti c study of how people think about, in uence and relate to one another (both individually and in groups). It is also the study of individual in social situations. Lewin is one of the fathers of social psychology and proposed the idea that behavior was a function of the individual characteristics x the social situation.