Psychology Vocab chapter 18 & 19

Seeks to explain how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by interactions with others.

• Social Psychology

• Social Cognition

• Physical Proximity

• Stimulation Value

Focuses on how we perceive, store, and retrieve information about social interactions.

• Social Cognition

• Social Psychology

• Physical Proximity

• Stimulation Value

The distance of one person to another person

• Utility Value

• Stimulation Value

• Physical Proximity

• Social Cognition

The ability of a person to interest you in or to expose you to new ideas and experiences

• Physical Proximity

• Stimulation Value

• Utility Value

• Ego-Support Value

The ability of a person to help another achieve his or her goals

• Stimulation Value

• Ego-Support Value

• Complementarity

• Utility Value

The ability of a person to provide another person with sympathy, encouragement, and approval.

• Utility Value

• Complementarity

• Ego-Support Value

• Primacy Effect

The attraction that often develops between opposite types of people because of the ability of one to supply what the other lacks.

• Complementarity

• Primacy Effect

• Ego-Support Value

• Stereotype

The tendency to form opinions on others based on first impressions

• Stereotype

• Attribution Theory

• Complementarity

• Primacy Effect

A set of assumptions about people in a given category often based on half truths and untruths.

• Primacy Effect

• Stereotype

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Attribution Theory

A collection of principles based on our explanations of the causes of events, other people's behaviors, and our own behaviors.

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Stereotype

• Attribution Theory

• Actor-Observer Bias