SOCIAL PSY CH 1-3

• Schemas


  Mental templates by which we organize our worlds
• Spotlight effect


  The belief that others are paying more attention to our appearance and behavior than they really are
• Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
• System 1

  The intuitive, automatic, unconscious, and fast way of thinking
• Self-esteem


  A person’s overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth
• Self-handicapping


  Protecting one’s self-image with behaviors that create a handy excuse for later failure
• Self-serving bias


  The tendency to perceive oneself favorably
• Illusion of transparency


  The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others
• Priming


  Activating particular associations in memory
• Self-comparison


  Evaluating one’s abilities and opinions by comparing oneself with others
• Medial prefrontal cortex


  A neuron path located in the cleft between your brain hemispheres just behind your eyes, seemingly helps stitch together your sense of self. It becomes more active when you think about yourself
• False consensus effect


  The tendency to overestimate the commonality of one’s opinions and one’s undesirable or unsuccessful behaviors
• Impact bias


  Overestimating the enduring impact of emotion-causing events
• Self-serving attributions


  A form of self-serving bias; the tendency to attribute positive outcomes to oneself and negative outcomes to other factors
• Self-monitoring


  Being attuned to the way one presents oneself in social situations and adjusting one’s performance to create the desired impression
• System 2


  The deliberate, controlled, conscious, and slower way of thinking
• False uniqueness effect


  The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one’s abilities and one’s desirable or successful behaviors
• Self-presentation


  The act of expressing oneself and behaving in ways designed to create a favorable impression or an impression that corresponds to one’s ideals
• Self-efficacy


  A sense that one is competent and effective, distinguished from self-esteem, which is one’s sense of self-worth
• FALSE


  You and I may react differently to a situation because we sense differently.
• TRUE 


  We construct our own social reality.
• TRUE


  Our intuitions and unconscious information processing are routinely powerful and sometimes perilous.
• FALSE


  Social influences doesn't shape our behavior.
• TRUE

  Personality dispositions also affect behavior. Attitudes and personality influence behavior.
• FALSE


  We do not reflect the interplay of our biological, psychological, and social influence.
• FALSE


  Social Psychology has no potential to illuminate your life.
• TRUE


  Internal forces also matter. Our inner attitudes affect our behavior. Our political attitudes influence our voting behavior.
• TRUE


  Social psychology is scientific study of how people think about influence, and relate to one another.
• Self - Schema


  specific beliefs by which you define yourself.
• Social Comparison


  sometimes based on incomplete information.