Saturday, December 11, 2010

From my book of psychology!!!!

Non Verbal Communication: transmission of information without using language; facial expressions; eye contact; body movements and posture; touching.

Attribution:Understanding the causes of others' behaviour; Jones and Davis's theory of correspondent inference: from acts to dispositions. Kelly's theory of causal attribution: How do we answer the question,why?

Consensus: extent to which reactions of one person are also shown by others.

Consistency : same stimulus yeilding same response.

Distinctiveness: same response to different stimuli.

Discounting Principle : tendency to attach less importance to one potential cause to some behaviour when other potential causes are also present.

Augmenting Principle: tendency to attach more importance to a potential cause of behaviour.

Fundamental Atrribution Error: Overstating the role of dispostional causes when explaining others behaviour. 

Actor Observer Effect:  You fell, i was pushed!

Self Serving Bias: I can do no wrong, but you can do no right

Impression formation and impression management : The fine art of looking good.
Self enhancement: boost our image
Other enhancement: make the other person feel good in our presence.

Schemas : mental frameworks contain information appropiate to particular situation or events. for eg. i enter a party and guage the scenario at par with other similar occurences

Prototypes : we have prototypes for sports heroes, leaders, doctors, professors. We think of a professor and imagine him taking a class. Its absurdity to think of professors doing a strip dance, just cant come to our mind. I m discounting fetishes here.. lol..

Heuristics simple rule to take complex decison at a quick rate. For eg. you are hanging from a cliff without anything worthwhile to cling upon. Its a complex situation but we need a quick decision coz its life which is in trouble. Similar situation can be a mad dog chasing you in a dark night where thereis absolute no chance to find a saviour. Quick decision is solicitated.....what to do... fast...

Representativeness: Whether this has occured before...

Availability: what comes to mind first...

Automatic Thinking: powerful tedency tp pay attention to negative information or stimuli.

Counterfactual Thinking :some surprising effects of considering "What might have been";mental stimulation

Magical Thinking: would you eat a chocolate shaped like a spider?

Social Cognition:

Affect Infusion Model : explains the influence of affective states on cognition( Do we feel what we show or do we show what we feel)

Classical Conditioning:

Intrumental Conditioning

Modeling- Central Route & Peripheral route to persuation

Cognitive Dissonanace: how do we change our own attitudes

Forced Compliance

Less-to-More Effect

Selective Avoidance

Trivialisation

Reactance

Gender Consistency

Gender Indentity maleness and femaleness

Possible selves

Self concept

Self Esteem

Self Focusing

Self Monitoring

Sex Typing

Social Identity

Prejudice

Discrimination

Contact Hypothesis

Gender Stereotypes

Glass ceiling

Recategorisation

Reverse discrimination

Sexism

Sexual Harassment

Tokenism

Appearance Anxiety

Attitude similarity

Matching hypothesis

Interpersonal Atrraction

Need for Affiliation

Balance

Imbalance

Non Balance

Repulsion hypothesis

Social comparison theory

Attachment Style

Close friendship

Intimacy

Interdependence

Lonliness

Passionate Feeling

Compassionate Love

Socio sexuality

Love

Triangular Model of Love

Conformity

Compliance

Obedience

Bait and switch tactic

Door in the face technique

foot in the mouth tactics

Lowballing

Ingratiation-Individuation

Altruism

Bystander

Empathy

Pluralistic Ignorance

Repression

Sensitisation

Egoism

Genetic

Aggresation

Cathararsis Hypothesis

Child Maltreatment

Cognitive Theories

Drive Theories

Familicide

Frustation Agression hypothesis

Hostile Agression

Incompatible Responses

Punishment

Sexual Jealousy

Provocation

Behaviour Patterns: Type A versus Type B

Workplace Aggresion

Additive Tasks

Charismatic Leaders

Cohesiveness

Collective Effort Model

Collective Entrapment

Decision Making

Distraction

Conflict Theory

Distributive Justice

Drive Theory of social facilitation

Equity

Evaluation Apprehension

Great Person Theory

Group Polarisation

Group think

Procedural Justice

Norms

Interpersonal Justice

Social Loafing

Status

Straw Poll

Transformational Leaders

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