PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Collectivism, Social Neuroscience, Naturalistic Fallacy
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Social psychology: the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviours of individuals in social situations. Dispositions: internal factors, such as beliefs, values, personality traits, and abilities, that guide a person"s behaviour. Fundamental attribution error: the failure to recognize the importance of situational influences on behaviour, and the corresponding tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions on behaviour. Channel factors: situational circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface but that can have great consequences for behaviour, either facilitating it, blocking it, or guiding it in a particular direction. Gestalt psychology: based on the german word gestalt, meaning form or figure. This approach stresses the fact that people perceive objects not by means of some automatic registering device but by active, usually nonconscious interpretation of what the object represents as a whole. Construal: an interpretation of or inference about the stimuli or situations people confront. Schema: a knowledge structure consisting of any organized body of stored information.
