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social psychology |
The study of the effects of social processes and cognitive processes on the wayindividuals perceive, influence, and relate to others in order to understand the social behaviorof individuals |
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"scientific study" |
a systematic way, using scientificmethods, constructed with the awareness of possible error |
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social processes |
the ways in which our thoughts, feelings, and actions are influencedby the people around us, the groups to which we belong, our personal relationships, theteachings of our parents and culture, and the pressures we experience from others |
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cognitive processes |
the ways in which our memories, perceptions, thoughts,emotions, and motives guide our understanding of the world and our actions |
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hindsight bias |
inclination after occurrence of event to see the event as predictable |
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social loafing |
phenomenon of people exerting less effort to achieve a goal when in a group |
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construction of reality |
1/2 FUNDAMENTAL AXIOMS: People assume that their impressions are accurate and true, expecting other people to sharethose impressions |
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pervasiveness of social influence |
2/2 FUNDAMANTAL AXIOMS: other people influence our thoughts,feelings, and behavior |
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striving for mastery |
1/3 MOTIVATIONAL PRINCIPLES: people seek to understand and predict events in the socialworld in order to obtain many types of rewards |
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seeking connectedness |
2/3 MOTIVATIONAL PRINCIPLES: people attempt to create and maintain feelings of mutualsupport, liking, and acceptance from those they care about and value |
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valuing "me" and "mine" |
3/3 MOTIVATIONAL PRINCIPLES: people are motivated to see ourselves, and anything or anyoneconnected to us, such as our families, teams, nations, or even possessions, in a positive light |
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conservatism |
1/3 PROCESSING PRINCIPLES: established knowledge tends to perpetuateitself |
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accessibility |
2/3 PROCESSING PRINCIPLES: Accessible information has the most impact |
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superficiality vs. depth |
3/3 PROCESSING PRINCIPLES: most of the time people operate superficial processing;that is, they put little effort into information processing and rely on accessible information.However, sometimes people process in depth; which means they put time and effort intoprocessing |
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Triplett (1898) |
Noticed performance boost among cyclists so, asked school children to wind fishing line onto reels as quickly as possible, with and without others present. Sure enough, the children’s performance improved in the presence of others |
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Ringelmann (1913) |
when people worked together to pull on a rope or push on a cart, they put less effort into the task than when they worked alone |
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Kurt Lewin (1936) |
founder of social psychology. all behavior depends on a person's life space: subjective map of the individual’s current goals and his or her social environment |