VOCAB QUIZ TERMS TOPIC 14

Question 1

social loafing

Answer 1

not feeling responsibility due to being in a group

Question 2

prejudice

Answer 2

disliking of a specific thing

Question 3

foot in the door phenomenon

Answer 3

asking for little things then larger things to make asking for a big thing seem more reasonable

Question 4

door in the face phenomenon

Answer 4

asking for a big thing to make the little things seem more reasonable

Question 5

Bystander effect

Answer 5

when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation

Question 6

conformity

Answer 6

when people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions to match the group

Question 7

obedience

Answer 7

performing an action under the orders of an authority figure.

Question 8

attitude

Answer 8

set of emotions, beliefs, and behaviors toward a particular object, person, thing, or event

Question 9

Diffusion of responsibility

Answer 9

less likely to take responsibility for action or inaction when other bystanders or witnesses are present

Question 10

just-world phenomenon

Answer 10

world is fair, and consequently, that the moral standings of our actions will determine our outcomes

Question 11

False-consensus effect

Answer 11

tendency to see our own attitudes, beliefs, and behavior as being typical.

Question 12

central route persuasion

Answer 12

logic-driven approach, using data and facts to convince people of an argument or product’s worthiness

Question 13

peripheral route persuasion

Answer 13

indirect route that uses peripheral cues to associate positivity with the message.

Question 14

norms of reciprocity

Answer 14

social standard that people who help others will receive equivalent benefits from them in return

Question 15

Stanley Milgram

Answer 15

shocking

Question 16

Soloman Asch

Answer 16

“vision test”, where study participants were found to be more likely to conform to obviously wrong answers

Question 17

social facilitation

Answer 17

psychological concept relating to the tendency for the presence of others to improve a person’s performance on a task

Question 18

cognitive dissonance

Answer 18

mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes.

Question 19

groupthink

Answer 19

individual members of small cohesive groups tend to accept a viewpoint or conclusion that represents a perceived group consensus, whether or not the group members believe it to be valid, correct, or optimal

Question 20

self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 20

person’s or a group’s expectation for the behavior of another person or group serves actually to bring about the prophesied or expected behavior

Question 21

deindividuation

Answer 21

state in which you become so immersed in the norms of the group that you lose your sense of identity and personal beliefs

Question 22

ethnocentrism

Answer 22

seeing the world only from one’s own cultural perspective, and believing that this one perspective is both normal and correct.

Question 23

Philip Zimbardo

Answer 23

known for leading the Stanford Prison Study, a controversial experiment which investigated the psychological effects of being a prisoner or prison guard

Question 24

fundamental attribution error

Answer 24

tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others’ behavior.

Question 25

mere exposure effect

Answer 25

people show an increased liking for stimuli as they are exposed to them more