PSY 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter ch1-4: Institutional Review Board, Cerebral Cortex, Implicit Cognition
16 Aug 2016
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Social psychology: the scientific discipline that attempts to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Self-fulfilling prophecy: the process by which someone"s expectations about a person or group leads to the fulfillment of those expectations. Self: a symbol-using social being who can reflect on his or her own behavior. *self-serving bias: the tendency to take credit for positive outcomes but deny responsibility for negative outcomes in our lives. Interactionism: an important perspective in social psychology that emphasizes the combined effects of both the person and the situation on human behavior. Social cognition: the ways in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about our social world. Dual-process theories: theories of social cognition that describe two basic ways of thinking about social stimuli, one involving automatic, effortless thinking and the other involving more deliberate, effortful thinking.
