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Chapter 14 Flashcards

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The theory that we explain someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition

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Attribution Theory

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The tendency for observers, when analyzing another’s behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition

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Fundamental attribution error

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Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events

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Attitude

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Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speakers attractiveness

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Peripheral route persuasion

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Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts

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Central route persuasion

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The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request

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Foot in the door phenomenon

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A set of expectations about social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave

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Role

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The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with the group standard

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Conformity

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Influence resulting from one’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

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Normative social influence

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Influence resulting from one’s willingness to except others opinions about reality

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Informational social influence

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Stronger responses on simple Orwell learned tasks in the presence of others

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Social facilitation

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The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts towards attaining a common goal than when individually accountable

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Social loafing

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The loss of self-awareness and self restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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Deindividualization

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The enhancement of a groups prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group

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Group polarization

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The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives

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Groupthink

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The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

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Social psychology

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18
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And unjustifiable attitude towards a group and its members

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Prejudice

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A generalized beliefs about a group of people

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Stereotype

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Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members

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Discrimination

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The tendency for people to believe the world is just in that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get

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Just world phenomenon

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People with whom we share a common identity

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Ingroup

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Those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup

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Outgroup

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The tendency to favor our own group

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In group bias

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The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

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Scapegoat theory

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The tendency to recall faces of ones own race more accurately than faces of other races

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Other race effect

27
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Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy

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Aggression

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The principle that frustration creates anger, which can generate aggression

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Frustration aggression principle

29
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Culturally model guide for how to act in various situations

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Social scripts

30
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And aroused state of intense positive, absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship

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Passionate love

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The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with him our lives are intertwined

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Companionate love

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A condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it

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Equity

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Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others

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Self disclosure

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The tendency for any given by sander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present

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Bystander affect

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The theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs

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Social exchange theory

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And expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them

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Reciprocity norm

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And expectation that people will help those dependent upon them

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Social responsibility norm

38
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A perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas

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Conflict

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Is situation in which the conflicting parties, but each rationally pursuing their self interest, become cotton mutually destructive behavior

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Social trap

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Mutual views often held by conflicting people, as when each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and Views the other side of evil and aggressive

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Mirror image perceptions

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Shared goals that over I differences among people and require their cooperation

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Superordinate goals

42
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Graduated and reciprocated initiatives and tension reduction a strategy designed to decrease international tensions

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GRIT

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Zimbardo

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Conducted an experiment on role playing

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Chameleon effect

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Mimicking= higher like

45
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Mood linkage

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We catch each other’s moods

46
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Asch

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Conducted an experiment on conformity

47
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Milgram

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Shockes

48
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Milgram controversy

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Participants were lied to about the study, which could have called emotional distress.

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Milgram lessons

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Normal people will obey and harm others

50
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Explicit associations

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Aware of facts

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Implicit associations

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Not aware of prejudice

52
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Gender prejudice

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We see our dads as smarter

53
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Blame- the- victim phenomenon

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It’s the fault of the victim

54
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Criminal lobe

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Frontal

55
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Video game violence

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Breeds aggression

56
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Who we like

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People like us

57
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Diffusion of responsibility

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Same as bystander effect

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Altruism

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Unselfish regard for others

59
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Mere exposure effect

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Phenomenon that repeated exposure to new stimuli increases the liking of them.

60
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Self fulfilling prophecy

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You have a belief in order to do something

61
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Schachter two factor theory

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Emotion=

1: physical arousal
2: cognitive label of the arousal

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