Social Psyc Chapters 1-4

Flashcards for chapters 1-4 in the book Social Psychology by Aronson, Wilson and Akert.  This is for a social psychology class at Lake Forest College

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Social influence
Effect that words, action or presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes
Social psychology
Scientific study of the way in which other's influence behavior
Construal
Way in which people perceive and interpret social world
Goal of sp
Identify universal properties of human nature that make everyone susceptible to social influence
Fundamental attribution error
Tendency to explain own behavior in terms of personality traits
Behaviorism
One need only to understand reinforcing properties of environment
Gestalt psychology
Study the way object appears in people's minds in a subjective way, as a whole
Human motives
Need to feel good about self, need to be accurate
Social cognition
How people think about self in social world
Hindsight bias
Tendency to overexaggerate prediction after it occured
Ethnography
Method by which researches attempt to understand a group of people by ovserving it from inside without and preconceived notions
Interjudge reliability
Level of agreement who observe independently
Archival analysis
Form of the observational method in which the researcher examines documents or archives
Meta-analysis
Technique that averages results of two studies to see effect of independet variable is reliable
Internal validity
All conditions the same except ind. variable