PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 12 Social Psychology
Document Summary
The branch of psychology that studies how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the real, imagined, or implies, presence of others: social perceptions. We overestimate dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors: self-perceptions. People tend to look internally when successful (i made an a because i"m smart) and look outside when failures occur (i made a bad grade because that teacher is ridiculous) **clicker question: karen is late for work and her co-worker, jeff, assumes it is because she is careless and lazy, jeff is assuming a dispositional cause: error and biases. The fae is an example of common error in our thinking. We also sometimes show biased thinking: social categorization effect, for example, use of heuristics, evidence of bias (such as confirmation bias, social thinking is not all about attribution. Attitude: a global and enduring positive or negative evaluation. I am against psychology: school is beneficial, social influence.
