PSY 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ingroups And Outgroups, Fundamental Attribution Error, Counterfactual Thinking

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: Sirena Ibrahim

Document Summary

People have difficulty predicting how they would feel in response to future emotional events: affective forecasting. Childre(cid:374)"s ra(cid:272)ial a(cid:374)d eth(cid:374)i(cid:272) attitudes are related to their (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e a(cid:271)ilities a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) they de(cid:448)elop a(cid:272)ross ages: cognitive developmental approach to prejudice. Tendency to interpret, seek, and create information that confirms expectations: confirmation bias. Tend to be more influenced by dramatic events that stick out to us than by actual statistics, probabilities, etc. Hearing your own name from across a loud and crowded room: cocktail party effect. Imagining alternative events or outcomes that might have occurred and did not: counterfactual thinking. Te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)y to attri(cid:271)ute your faults to outside fa(cid:272)tors (cid:271)ut others" faults to their perso(cid:374)ality: a(cid:272)tor-observer effect. The su(cid:373) total of a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:271)eliefs (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)i(cid:374)g his or her o(cid:449)(cid:374) perso(cid:374)al attributes: self-concept. The belief that people get what they deserve: just world hypothesis. Theory that argues that prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping are inevitable: evolutionary approach to prejudice.