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the field of force in human behavior is the social situation. A person's attributes interact with the situation to produce the resulting behavior. The main situational influences on our behavior are the actions and the presence of other people.

sociometer theory

kurt Lewins Field of Forces Theory (correct)

self verification Theory

social psychology

concept that helps explain why circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface can have great consequences for behavior. Can also guide behavior in a particular direction by making it easier to follow one path rather another one

heuristic

primary effect

channel factors (correct)

ego depletion

the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition (values, beliefs, and personality traits)

external validity

attribution

fundamental attribution error (correct)

social psychology

ways for the brain to infer missing parts of a picture when a picture is incomplete

Gestalt principles Signup and view all the answers

idea that objects are not perceived by some automatic registering device but by active, non-conscious interpretation of what the object represents as a whole

Gestalt Psychology Signup and view all the answers

the claim that the way things are is the way they should be ex: feeling envy is natural so there is nothing wrong with feeling envy

naturalistic fallacy Signup and view all the answers

stored information that is used to help in understanding the social and physical world

Schemas Signup and view all the answers

the process of explaining one's own behavior and the behavior of others

attribution Signup and view all the answers

the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have predicted it

hindsight bias Signup and view all the answers

the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people

external validity Signup and view all the answers

confidence that only the manipulated variable could have produced the results, no external factors

internal validity Signup and view all the answers

consistency of measurement

reliability Signup and view all the answers

a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance

statistical significance Signup and view all the answers

Research that examines the relationships between variables and how two variables change together.

correlational research Signup and view all the answers

people define themselves as a collective, place less importance on individual freedom or personal control

interdependent culture Signup and view all the answers

a culture in which people tend to think of themselves as distinct social entities, tied to each other by voluntary bonds of affection and organizational memberships but essentially separate from other people and having attributes that exist in the absence of any connection to others

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the field of force in human behavior is the social situation. A person's attributes interact with the situation to produce the resulting behavior. The main situational influences on our behavior are the actions and the presence of other people.

concept that helps explain why circumstances that appear unimportant on the surface can have great consequences for behavior. Can also guide behavior in a particular direction by making it easier to follow one path rather another one

the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition (values, beliefs, and personality traits)

ways for the brain to infer missing parts of a picture when a picture is incomplete

idea that objects are not perceived by some automatic registering device but by active, non-conscious interpretation of what the object represents as a whole

the claim that the way things are is the way they should be ex: feeling envy is natural so there is nothing wrong with feeling envy

stored information that is used to help in understanding the social and physical world

the process of explaining one's own behavior and the behavior of others

the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have predicted it

the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people

confidence that only the manipulated variable could have produced the results, no external factors

consistency of measurement

a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance

Research that examines the relationships between variables and how two variables change together.

people define themselves as a collective, place less importance on individual freedom or personal control

a culture in which people tend to think of themselves as distinct social entities, tied to each other by voluntary bonds of affection and organizational memberships but essentially separate from other people and having attributes that exist in the absence of any connection to others

the stories we tell about our social self

an image of yourself based on what you believe others think of you

the act of comparing oneself to people who are better off

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