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A psychologist who studies how the thoughts, emotions, and behavior of individuals influence and are influenced by interactions between people
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Social Psycchologist
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The process through which a person understands and categorizes the behavior of others
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Social Perception
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States that a person understands other people by attributing their behavior either to their internal dispositions or their external situations
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Attributuion Theory
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An attiribution based on a person's personality or characteristics
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Dispositional Attribution
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An attribution based on a person's situation or environment
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Situational Attribution
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A process of attribution in which behavior is observed based on three characteristics: the behavior's distinctiveness, it's consitency, and consensus
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Covariation Principle
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A set of ideas or beliefs about others that leads a person to perceive others in a way that conforms with that person's expectations
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Preexisting Schema
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The tendency for a person to rate physically attractive people as more intelligent, competent, sociable, and sensitive than their less attractive counterparts
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Attractiveness Bias
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The tendency for a person to attribute his or her failures to external events and his or her successes to personal characteristics and skills
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Self-serving Bias
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The tendency for people to behave in accordance with other's expectations
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Pygmalion Effect
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A beilef that causes itself to become true
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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A phenomenon that enables a person to influence other people to behave in accordance with his or her expectations
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Behavioral Expectation Confirmation
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Refers to underlying processes, such as attention and memory, that make social behavior poccible
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Social Cognition
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An area of the visual cortex that specificall repsonds to and recognizes faces
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Fusiform Face Area
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A condition caused by damage to the ventral region of the temporal lobe in which a perosn is unable to recognize faces
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Prosopagnosia
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