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WorksheetsCh. 5 Social Vocab
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
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
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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
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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.
