Soical Psychology

Social Psychology
The study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another.
Social Thinking
* how do we think about another
Attribution Theory
* the idea that we give a casual explanation for someone's behavior
* we credit that behavior either to the situation or.
Fundamental Attribution Error
* the tendency to understimate the impact of situation and overestimate the impact of personal disposition.
Attitudes
* A belief or feeling that predisposes one to respond in a particular way to something.
More often, our actions affect our attitudes
Foot-in-the-door phenonmenon
* the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
Door-in-face phenonmenon
* the tendency for people who say no to a huge request, to comply with a smaller one
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
* we do not like when we have either conflicting attitudes or when our attitudes do not match our actions
* when they clash, we will change our attitude to create balance.