Social Psychology - Test #1

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

The way in which people perceive, comprehend and interpret the social world

The aspects of people's personalities that make them different from other people

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which people's behavior stems from internal, dispositional factors and to underestimate the role of situational factors

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 behaviours

A school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in people's minds, rather than the objective physical attributes of the object

People's evaluations of their own self-worth - that is, the extent to which they view themselves as good, competent, and decent

How people think about themselves and the social world; more specifically, how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information

The attempt to explain social behavior in terms of genetic factors that evolved over time according to the principles of natural selection

The realization that we are going to die produces fear, and people will go to great lengths to reduce this feeling