Ch. 5 Social Vocab

Define attribution theory

• concepts explaining how people assign causes to the events around them and the effects of these kinds of causes

• Linking an event to a cause, such as inferring that a personality trait is responsible for a behavior

• the items that make a character for description

• don't pick this one?

what is the just world hypothesis?

• belief that people don't get to choose what they deserve in life

• belief that people feel the world is just

• belief that people get what they deserve in life and deserve what they get

• belief that people can get things if they change their attribution

what does social class mean?

• When amount of wealth, education, and occupational prestige individuals and their families have impacts their satisfaction

• The lack of wealth, education, and occupational prestige individuals and their families have

• The amount of time it takes for someone to want to interact with others

• The amount of wealth, education, and occupational prestige individuals and their families have

Define fundamental attribution error

• fundamental process we use to choose what to engage with

• The failure to see the importance of situation and the tendency to overemphasize the importance of dispositions on behavior.

• an error when choosing who to engage with

• a false error people use to deceive

How does the self-serving bias work?

• when you decide to do things for yourself

• choosing the wrong answers on purpose to condemn

• welcome our successes, but blame away failure

• when we pick a favorite and ignore the rest

What is emotional amplification?

• an increase in an emotional reaction to something that is linked to how easy it is to imagine the event not happening

• when we over-react to certain situations

• when we improperly label situations with an emotion

• we amplify our emotional response to gain footing in a situation

counterfactual thinking is when we say

• how do we move from way of thinking to the next

• how come I can have the things everyone else has

• would have, could have, should have

• who, what when, where, or why did something happen to us

discounting principle is

• when we place less value on a reason when other reasons could be possible

• giving people a benefit to help them out

• disallowing people a second chance because we devalue them

• not seeing the severity in a situation

consistency is

• way of behaving only when you want something from someone

• when an individual behaves the same way ONLY with certain people

• whether an individual behaves the same way or differently in a given situation on different occasions.

• to do the same thing no matter of success or failure

consensus means

• don't pick this one

• whether most people would behave the same way or differently in a given situation

• whether a behavior is unique to a particular situation or occurs in many or all situations

• whether an individual behaves the same way or differently in a given situation on different occasions.