Psychology - Social cognition

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Year 11 Psychology Flashcards on Psychology - Social cognition, created by Skye Chen on 04/06/2018.
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Social cognition How we interpret, analyse, remember and use information to make judgements about others in different social situations
Person perception The mental processes we use to form impressions and draw conclusions about the personal characteristics of other people
Halo effect A cognitive bias in which the impression we form about one quality of a person influences our beliefs and expectations about the person in other qualities
Attribution The process by which people explain the causes of their own and other people's behaviour
Personal attribution An explanation due to the characteristics of the person involved. e.g. personality, ability, attitude, motivation, mood or effort
Situational attribution An explanation due to factors external to the person involved. e.g. actions of another person, an aspect of the environment, the task, luck and fate
The fundamental attribution error The tendency to overestimate the influence of personal factors and underestimate the impact of situational on other people's behaviour
Just World Belief That the world is a fair and just place
Actor-observer bias Our tendency to attribute our own behaviour to external causes, yet attributing other people's behaviour to internal factors
Self-serving bias When judging ourselves, we tend to take the credit for our successes and attribute failures to situational factors
Individualist cultures Being independent is valued and encouraged, and achieving personal goals is considered more important than achieving group goals
Collectivist cultures Achieving group goals is considered more important than the achievement of individual goals
Attitude An evaluation a person makes about an object, person, group, event or issue.
Tri-component Model Affective: feelings/emotions Behavioural: actions Cognitive: beliefs and thoughts
Classical conditioning repeated pairing and association of two different stimuli or events
Operant conditioning We tend to repeat behaviour that has a desirable consequence and not repeat behaviour which has an undesirable behaviour
Social learning/modelling When someone uses observation of another person's actions and their consequences to guide their future thoughts, feelings or behaviour
Repeated Exposure Being exposed to an object, person, group, event or issue repeatedly
Stereotype A collection of beliefs that we have about the people who belong to a certain group, regardless of individual differences among members of that group
Ingroup Any group that you belong to or identify with
Outgroup Any group you do not belong to or identify with
Prejudice Holding a negative attitude towards the members of a group, based solely on their membership of that group
Discrimination Positive or negative behaviour that is directed towards a social group and its members
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