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| the scientific study of the way in which peoples thoughts feelings and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| the tenancy to overestimate the extent to which peoples behavior is due to internal dispositional factors and underestimate the role of a situational factors |
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| a school of psychology maintaining that to understand human behavior one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment that is how positive and negative events the environment are associated with specific behaviors |
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| school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears I people mind rather than the objective physical attributes of the object |
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| how people think about themselves ad the social world...how people select interpret, remember and use social information to make judgments and decisions |
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| the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted and outcome after it occurred |
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| a stats technique that assesses how well you can predict one variable from another like how well you can predict peoples weight frm their hight |
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| the extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people |
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| a stat technique that averages the results f two or more study's to see if the effect of an independent variable is reliable |
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| judgmental, availability, and representativeness |
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