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Social Psychology Flashcards

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

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Social psychology

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Theory that we explain someone’s by crediting either the situation or the persons 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 the 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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Attitude change path in which interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts

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Central route persuasion

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Attitude change path in which people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speakers attractiveness

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Peripheral 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 (norms) about a 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 ones behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

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Conformity

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Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

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Normative social inlfuence

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Informational social influence influence resulting from ones willingness to accept others opinions about reality

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Informational social influence

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Stronger responses in simple or well-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 toward 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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Deindividuation

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The enhancement of a group’s 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 enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted form one generation to the next

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Culture

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An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior.

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Norm

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The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies

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Personal space

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An unjustified attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action

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Prejudice

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A generalized(sometimes accurate but often over generalized) belief 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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Us–people with whom we share a common identity

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Ingroup

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Them–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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Ingroup 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 the ones race more accurately than faces of other races

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Other race affect

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

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Just world phenomenon

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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 the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal–creates anger, which can generate aggression

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Frustration aggression principle

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He phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them

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Mere exposure effect

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

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Passionate love

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The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom 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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Unselfish regard for the welfare of others

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Altruism

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

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Bystander effect

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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 help them

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Reciprocity norm

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An expectation that people will help those dependent upon them

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Social-responsibility norm

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A perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas

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Conflict

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A situation in which the conflict thing parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior

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Social trap

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Mutual use often held by conflicting people, as when each side to see itself as ethical and peaceful and abuse the other side is evil and aggressive

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Mirror image perceptions

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A believe that leads to it’s own fulfillment

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Shared goals that override differences among people and require their Cooperration

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Superordinate goals

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

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