What is Social Psychology?

What is Social Psychology?

• The study of individual personalities

• The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

• The analysis of societal structures and their impact on individuals

• The examination of human behavior in isolation

What does the Fundamental Attribution Error theory explain?

• The theory that we explain someone's behavior by their intelligence level.

• The theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.

• The theory that we explain someone's behavior by their educational background.

• The theory that we explain someone's behavior by their economic status.

What are the two types of attributions mentioned in the Fundamental Attribution Error?

• Educational vs. economic attribution

• Dispositional vs. situational attribution

• Intelligent vs. unintelligent attribution

• Active vs. passive attribution

What is the fundamental attribution error?

• The tendency to underestimate the impact of personal disposition and overestimate the impact of situations when analyzing behaviors of others.

• The tendency to overestimate the impact of personal disposition and underestimate the impact of the situations in analyzing the behaviors of others.

• The tendency to accurately estimate both personal disposition and situational impacts when analyzing behaviors of others.

• The tendency to ignore both personal disposition and situational impacts when analyzing behaviors of others.

What does the Fundamental Attribution Error refer to?

• The tendency to attribute one's own actions to external causes while attributing other people's behaviors to internal causes.

• The tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition when analyzing another's behavior.

• The tendency for observers to overestimate the impact of the situation and to underestimate the impact of personal disposition when analyzing another's behavior.

• The tendency to attribute success to personal factors and failure to situational factors.

What is an example of a situational attribution in response to negative behavior?

• That person is always like that.

• Maybe that driver is ill.

• They did that on purpose.

• Crazy driver!

What type of reaction is associated with dispositional attribution?

• Ignoring the behavior

• Tolerant reaction

• Unfavorable reaction

• Neutral reaction

How does dispositional attribution affect one's reaction to someone else's negative behavior?

• It leads to a more understanding and cautious approach.

• It has no effect on the reaction.

• It results in a more favorable reaction.

• It causes a person to react unfavorably, such as speeding up and giving a dirty look.

What is a likely reaction when making a situational attribution about someone's negative behavior?

• Confronting the person angrily

• Proceeding cautiously and giving the person space

• Retaliating with similar behavior

• Ignoring the behavior completely

What is the main purpose of the actions we take according to the Cognitive Dissonance Theory?

• To increase the discomfort we feel

• To reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel

• To make our thoughts (cognitions) more inconsistent

• To avoid becoming aware of any inconsistencies