Key terms

Question 1

Majority influence

Answer 1

When the majority of a group tries to influence others in the group to conform to their beliefs

Question 2

Conformity

Answer 2

Yielding to group pressure

Question 3

Obedience

Answer 3

Following orders from someone we perceive as having more authority than us

Question 4

Situational factors

Answer 4

How external influences affect our behavior

Question 5

Normative conformity

Answer 5

Conformity that is due to us wanting to fit in

Question 6

Group norm

Answer 6

Specific ideas or assumptions held by a particular group

Question 7

Confederate

Answer 7

An actor that is working for the experimenter who pretends to be part of the experiment

Question 8

Informational conformity

Answer 8

People conform because they want to be perceived as correct and so follow the lead of others

Question 9

In-group

Answer 9

Someone who is part of your group due to a common factor

Question 10

Out-group

Answer 10

Someone who is not in your group due to not having a common factor

Question 11

Deindividuation

Answer 11

When people are in a crowd and they lose their sense of individuality and feel more anonymous

Question 12

Collectivist culture

Answer 12

The needs of the group are seen as more important than the needs of the individual.

Question 13

Individualist culture

Answer 13

The needs of the individual are seen as more important than the needs of the group

Question 14

Altruism

Answer 14

Helping others without expecting or receiving any reward

Question 15

Reciprocal altruism

Answer 15

Where we help others and expect something back

Question 16

Authority figure

Answer 16

Someone we perceive as having more power than ourselves

Question 17

Autonomous state

Answer 17

Where the individual feels responsible for their own actions

Question 18

Agentic state

Answer 18

Where the individual does not feel responsible for their own actions because they are acting under orders from an authority figure

Question 19

Dispositional factors

Answer 19

How internal factors affect our behaviour

Question 20

Locus of control

Answer 20

How much control a person feels they have over their own life, with reference to external and internal factors

Question 21

Morality

Answer 21

Understanding what is right and wrong in how we think and behave

Question 22

Psychopath

Answer 22

Someone who has a mental illness which is defined by having a lack of empathy for other people and a tendency to act immorally

Question 23

Authoritarian personality

Answer 23

A personality type that is very obedient to authority.

Question 24

Minority influence

Answer 24

The idea that small groups of people can change the opinion and beliefs of larger groups of people

Question 25

Attitudes

Answer 25

Feelings of like or dislike towards something

Question 26

Self-esteem

Answer 26

How much an individual values themselves

Question 27

Stigma

Answer 27

A strong sense of disapproval for something

Question 28

Positive correlation

Answer 28

where two variables travel in the same direction

Question 29

Pro-social behaviour

Answer 29

Behaviour that contributes to society in some way

Question 30

Opportunity sample

Answer 30

A sample selected by convenience

Question 31

Reductionism

Answer 31

Viewing human behaviour from a simple perspective

Question 32

Random sample

Answer 32

A sample collected by chance

Question 33

Laboratory experiment

Answer 33

Where an IV is manipulated in a controlled environment to test it's effect on a DV

Question 34

Gender bias

Answer 34

To favour one gender over another

Question 35

Field experiment

Answer 35

Where an IV is manipulated in a natural environment to test it's impact on a DV

Question 36

Extraneous variable

Answer 36

A variable that you are not studying in the test that can affect the DV unless it's controlled

Question 37

Determinism

Answer 37

The idea that how we think and behave is determined by outside forces such as genetics or environmental influences such as our upbringing

Question 38

Anti-social behaviour

Answer 38

Behaviour that takes something away from society and harms it in some way

Question 39

Acquiescence bias

Answer 39

When we answer a survey without thinking about the questions

Question 40

Demand characteristics

Answer 40

Where we guess the aim of the experiment and change our behaviour because of it