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Psych 160 Questions answers latest update
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- PSYCH 160
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- James Madison University
Psych 160 Questions answers latest update
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Psych 160Social psych - The scientific examination of how people think about, relate to, and
influence others. It focuses on our thoughts, feelings, interpretations, and
relationships.
Proximal influences on behavior - the factors that exist here and now, or what
immediately precede what the individual does
Distal influences - factors that are removed in time from a given context or
episode (ex: evolution).
Channel factors - certain situational circumstances that appear unimportant on
the surface but can have great consequences for behavior, either facilitating,
blocking, or guiding it
Dispositions - internal factors, such as beliefs, values, personality traits, or
abilities, that guide a person's behavior.
Fundamental attribution error - the failure to recognize the importance of
situational influences on behavior , together with the tendency to overemphasize
the importance of dispositions.
, Construal - interpretation and inference about the stimuli or situations we
confront.
Gestalt psychology - based on the German word "gestalt" meaning form or figure,
this approach stresses the fact that objects are perceived not be means of some
automatic registering device but by active, usually unconscious, interpretation of
what the object represents as a whole.
Prisoner's Dilemma - a situation involving payoffs to two people in which trust and
cooperation lead to higher joint payoffs than mistrust and defection.
Schemas - generalized knowledge about the physical and social world and how to
behave in particular situations and with different kinds of people.
Stereotypes - schemas that we have for people of various kinds that can be
applied to judgments about people and decisions about how to interact with
them.
Automatic processing - unconscious and often emotion-based reactions to social
situations
Controlled processing - conscious and systematic reactions mediated by careful
thought
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