Social Thinking and Behavior Study Guide

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What is the planning fallacy?

Underestimating the time it will take to complete a task

What is the basis of self-esteem according to the text?

Fundamental human need to maintain or enhance self-esteem

What are the consequences of high, but contingent self-esteem according to the text?

Associated with aggression, bullying, and narcissism

How does culture impact the basis of self-esteem according to the text?

<p>It affects self-evaluations by making them more relational in interdependent selves</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen it?

<p>Hindsight bias</p> Signup and view all the answers

How are our social intuitions described in the text?

<p>Powerful and perilous</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does social neuroscience emphasize about human behavior?

<p>It is a result of both nature and nurture</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does experimental research in social psychology emphasize the ability to control?

<p>Variables, setting, timing, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Principle of aggregation?

<p>The effects of an attitude on behavior become more apparent when we look at a person’s aggregate (average) behavior rather than isolated acts</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the Theory of planned behavior suggest?

<p>Attitudes toward specific behaviors are the best predictors of behavioral intentions</p> Signup and view all the answers

When will attitudes predict behavior?

<p>When social influences are minimal</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do we measure when people may not honestly report their explicit attitude?

<p>Implicit attitudes</p> Signup and view all the answers

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