U9 Test Review Flashcards
(33 cards)
What is the phenomenon where people in the group don’t want to challenge each other even if they should be due to conformity?
Groupthink
What is it called when the beliefs of a group of similarly thinking people become more radical?
Group polarization
What was the Milgram experiment?
a. Tested obedience
b. People experienced cognitive dissonance
c. 60% shocked to death shock
d. People use this to explain the Holocaust
e. Caused psychological harm to participants
What it is called when we adjust behavior towards the group?
Conformity
What is it called when some members of a group don’t contribute?
Social loafing
What is the obligation to give someone a gift because they gave you one?
Reciprocity norm
What is selling something by showing pictures of attractive people with it called?
Peripheral route of Persuasion
What is it called when you do something against your beliefs?
Cognitive dissonance
What is it called when you run faster when people are watching you than when you are alone?
Social facilitation
What is it called when we mimic what other people are doing?
Chameleon effect
What was the Stanford prison experiment ?
a. Tested effect of role play on cognition
b. One group acts like prisoners, and other group act likes guards
c. Zimbardo
d. It ended early because of long-term harm (physical, psychological)
What are general beliefs about a group called?
Stereotype
What is doing something nice for no personal gain called?
Altruism
Why should an advertiser use short ads that people will see more often instead of long ads that they won’t see as often?
Mere-exposure effect
What influences conformity?
a. Temperament
b. Perceived authority
c. Presence of someone who isn’t conforming
What is it called when we think that people deserve what has happened to them?
Just-world phenomenon
What is the bystander effect?
You’re less likely to help if there are other people around because you believe someone else will do something
What is attribution theory?
We attribute people’s behavior to situation or disposition
What is fundamental attribution theory?
People more often attribute other’s behavior to disposition
What do people usually attribute their own behavior to?
Situation
What brings us together in relationships?
Similarity, proximity, physical attraction
What part of the brain has diminished activity in aggressive people?
Frontal lobes
What is a group that people blame for everything called?
Scapegoat
What is the tendency to believe one’s own group is better than the other?
Ingroup bias
