Influence of Social Context Quiz

Social psychology focuses on how social context and environment affect behaviors, with more emphasis on the situation, while personality psychology focuses on why people consistently act the way they do in these situations, with more focus on the individual.

Some factors include heuristics, transference (applying the schema of someone you already know to understand someone new), false consensus (assuming everyone is the same as us, especially people we know and like), impression management, and confirmation bias.

Transference is the act of applying the schema of someone you already know to understand someone new. It is a factor that can limit accuracy in impression formation.

<p>The two types of attributions are dispositional/internal and situational/external. Dispositional/internal attributions relate to traits, values, attitudes, beliefs, skills, and intentions. Situational/external attributions relate to events, weather, aspects of a context, circumstances, other people’s actions, accidents, and chance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to be eager to verify our beliefs but less inclined to seek evidence that might disprove them. It is a factor that limits accuracy in impression formation.</p> Signup and view all the answers