Drawn from my own notes and:
Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., & Akert, R. M. (2010). Social Psychology (7th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
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| 310171645 | The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior. | social influence | 0 | |
| 310171646 | The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. | social psychology | 1 | |
| 310171647 | The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. | construal | 2 | |
| 310171648 | The aspects of people's personalities that make them different from other people. | individual differences | 3 | |
| 310171649 | Discipline that provides general laws and theories about societies, not individuals. | sociology | 4 | |
| 310171650 | Discipline that studies the psychological processes people have in common with one another that make them susceptible to social influence. | social psychology | 5 | |
| 310171651 | Discipline that studies the characteristics that make individuals unique and different from one another. | personality psychology | 6 | |
| 310171652 | The goal of social psychology is to identify _________ that make everyone susceptible to social influence, regardless of social class or culture. | universal properties of human nature | 7 | |
| 310171653 | The goal of social psychology is to identify universal properties of human nature that _________, regardless of social class or culture. | make everyone susceptible to social influence | 8 | |
| 310171654 | The goal of social psychology is to identify universal properties of human nature that make everyone susceptible to social influence, regardless of _________. | social class or culture | 9 | |
| 310171655 | The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to internal, dispositional factors, and to underestimate the role of situational factors. | fundamental attribution error | 10 | |
| 310171656 | A school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment - that is, how positive and negative events in the environment are associated with specific behaviors. | behaviorism | 11 | |
| 310171657 | A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's mines rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object | gestalt psychology | 12 | |
| 310171658 | Two motives of primary importance underlying our thoughts and behaviors: 1) the need to ________, and 2) the need to be accurate. | feel good about ourselves | 13 | |
| 310171659 | Two motives of primary importance underlying our thoughts and behaviors: 1) the need to feel good about ourselves, and 2) the need to ________. | be accurate | 14 | |
| 310171660 | People's evaluations of their own self-worth - that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent and decent. | self esteem | 15 | |
| 310171661 | How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information to make judgments and decisions. | social cognition | 16 | |
| 310171662 | Where does construal of a situation come from: 1) ________, 2) social cognition - need to be accurate, 3) biological drives, 4) desire for reward, 5) need for control. | self esteem - need to feel good about ourselves | 17 | |
| 310171663 | Where does construal of a situation come from: 1) self esteem - need to feel good about ourselves, 2) ________, 3) biological drives, 4) desire for reward, 5) need for control. | social cognition - need to be accurate | 18 | |
| 310171664 | Where does construal of a situation come from: 1) self esteem - need to feel good about ourselves, 2) social cognition - need to be accurate, 3) ________, 4) desire for reward, 5) need for control. | biological drives | 19 | |
| 310171665 | Where does construal of a situation come from: 1) self esteem - need to feel good about ourselves, 2) social cognition - need to be accurate, 3) biological drives, 4) ________, 5) need for control. | desire for reward | 20 | |
| 310171666 | Where does construal of a situation come from: 1) self esteem - need to feel good about ourselves, 2) social cognition - need to be accurate, 3) biological drives, 4) desire for reward, 5) ________ . | need for control | 21 | |
| 310171667 | Fundamental attribution error is best defined as the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior is due to ____________ factors , and to underestimate the role of _______ factors. | personality, (internal disposition), situational (external) | 22 |
