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Underestimating the impact of a situation and overestimating the impact of personal disposition

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Fundamental attribution error

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Explaining someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation of the person’s predisposition

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Attribution theory

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Seeing ourselves in the situation

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Self-serving bias

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Feelings influenced by 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 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

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Peripheral route persuasion

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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 a social position that defines how those in the position ought to behave

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Role

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

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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Mimicking other people’s behavioral acts

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Chameleon effect

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Attitude changes related to the people around you

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Mood-linkage

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Adjusting kne’s behavior to coincide with a group standard

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Conformity

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When a participant was asked to say which of the three lines is equal to the standard line given, and two people in the room, actors, said a line that was obviously not equal to it, the participant went along with what the other two people said

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Solomon Asch study

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  • one is made to feel impncompetent
  • group has at least 3 people
  • group is unanimous
  • one admires the group’s status
  • one has no prior commitments to any response
  • others in the group observes one’s behavior
  • one’s culture strongly encourages respect for social standards
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Conditions that strengthen conformity

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Influence resulting from a person’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 accept other’s opinions about reality

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Informational social influence

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The shock level experiment between “teachers” and “students”

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Milgram’s Studies

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  • the person giving orders was close at hand and was perceived to be a legitimate authority figure
  • the authority figure was supported by a prestigious instituation/university
  • the victim was depersonalized or at a distance, even in another room
  • there were no role models for defiance; no other participants were seen disobeying the experimenter
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When obedience was high

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Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others

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Social facilitation

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If a task is ______, when people are around watching your skills appear to be worse

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Extremely difficult

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An activity or something someone does _____, they do better when people are watching

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Well

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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 -examples: Bay of Pigs, Challenger explosion
Groupthink
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The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
Culture
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An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior; prescribe proper behavior
Norm
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The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies
Personal space
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Culture changes happen _______ from generation to generation
Quickly
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How individuals influence a group; have to stay firm and seem self-confident
Minority influence
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Usually negative; an unjustifiable attitude toward a group and it's members; generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action
Prejudice
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A generalized belief about a group of people; sometimes accurate, but often overgeneralized
Stereotype
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Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and it's members; the action
Discrimination
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"Us"; people whom we share a common identity
In group
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"Them"; those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup
Out group
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The tendency to favor our own group
Ingroup bias
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The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame
Scapegoat theory
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The tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races
Other race effect
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Overestimating the similarity of those within other groups
Outgroup homogeneity
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Shade our view of certain groups based on one person's actions
Vivid cases
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The tendency for people to believe the world is just and people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get
Just-world phenomenon
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When given an outcome, the belief that it was easily predicted beforehand
Hindsight bias
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Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy
Aggression
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Acts of aggression when stimulated
Amygdala
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There is _____ frontal lobe activity in violent criminals
Reduced
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______ levels of testosterone are linked to aggression! and _____ levels of serotonin are also linked to aggression
Increased; decreased
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The principle that frustration- the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal- creates anger, which can generate aggression
Frustration-aggression principle
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People believe that some women invite or enjoy sexual assault
Rape myth
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Teach or release violence
Video games
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The idea that we feel better if we "blow off steam" by venting our emotions
Catharsis hypothesis
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The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them
Mere-exposure effect
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Matters to both men and women
Physical attractiveness
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Continuing the relationship when the rewards are greater than the costs
Reward theory of attraction
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An aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship
Passionate love
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The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined
Companionate love
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A condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it
Equity
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Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others
Self-disclosure
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Unselfish regard for the well being of others
Altruism
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The more people present, the less responsibility there is
Diffusion of responsibility
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The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present
Bystander effect
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The theory that social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs
Social exchange theory
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An expectation that people will,help, not hurt, those who have helped them
Reciprocity norm
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An expectation that people will help those dependent upon them
Social-responsibility norm
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A perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas
Conflict
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A situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior
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 as evil and aggressive
Mirror-image perception
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A belief that leads to its own fulfillment
Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Contact, cooperation, communication, and conciliation
To resolve conflict
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Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation
Superordinate goals
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Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension-Reduction; a strategy designed to decrease international tensions
GRIT
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