01:830:321- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:321
• Professor: S.Kilianski

Document Summary

Scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings, and actions are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Social reality is subjective and constructive, thus subject to bias and error. Outcomes seem obvious and easy to predict in retrospect. Makes findings of social psychology seem trite and banal. When judging the decisions of others, hindsight bias affects our evaluations of them. Social psychologists study the power of the situation to influence behavior. Example: ross and samuels (1993) - participants identified as competitive or. Participants played game labeled as either wall street or community . We tend to overestimate the power of personality (internal factors) and underestimate. (fundamental the power of the situation (external factors) in determining the behavior of others (correspondence bias) resulting in erroneous internal attributions ( fae . The importance of construals cognition, and behavior constructive process. How people interpret, understand, and represent social situations determine their affect,