PSY 0105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Confirmation Bias, Fundamental Attribution Error, Extreme Behavior
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Scientific study of how people think, influences, and relate to one another: thinking. Our social intuitions are powerful, sometimes perilous. Attitudes shape, and are shaped by, behavior. Feelings and actions toward people are sometimes negative and sometimes positive. Social psychology"s principles are applicable to everyday life. The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. A society"s widely held ideas and values, including assumptions and cultural ideologies. Our social representations help us make sense of the world. Often unchallenged by people of the same culture. Lay theories: sayings that contradict each other but both are believed to be true. Often contradict each other and come from unreliable sources. The tendency to exaggerate, after learning the outcome, one"s ability to have foreseen how something turned out.
