PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ingratiation, Hindsight Bias, Social Perception
21 Oct 2013
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Absolute deprivation: belief that one"s resources are threatened by people in other groups. Accessibility: readily available information has the largest impact on us. Acculturation: change that happens when people have a different culture in context. Actor-observer effect: other"s behavior being dispositional, own behavior as situational (because we have access to our own thoughts). Affective forecasting: process of predicting impact of positive and negative events on mood (usually this is overestimated, when professors were asked how they would feel if they were denied tenure, they ended up feeling better than they expected) Aggression: behavior intended to harm others who don"t want such treatment (must be intentional, harmful, and unwanted) Anchoring and adjustment: heuristic which relies on starting point and then adjusting from that point (negotiating price) leads to errors in perceiving the world. Anonymity: people in the group are less responsible for actions. Appraisal: an interpretation of an event including both cause of event and effect on self.
