Ch 9 Flashcards
The tenancy as a observer to overestimate personality traits and underestimate situational factors and other behavior
Fundamental attribution error
Asked to estimate distance a light moves in a dark room people gave wrong answer to conform with group
Sheriff study
Similar to the sheriff study but with line lengths
Asch study
Showed how normal people will obey a person in a position of authority and commit heinous crimes
Milgram study
The probability of a person helping in an emergency situation is greater when there are no other by standards then when there are other bystanders
Bystander effect
A kind act were A person commits nice app with no concern with anything in return
Altruism
The tendency to give less effort when working in a group
Social loafing
When a person loses his self awareness/becomes anonymous example KKK
Deindividuation
When a person places blame on someone else
Scapegoat Theory
When people hold two different believes that contradict each other or engage in a behavior that contradicts their belief
Cognitive dissonance
Being aggressive to get something
Instrument aggression
When being yelled at going to yell back
Reactive aggression
Just want to be mean
Bullying aggression
Emotional aggression cyber bulling woman do this more
Relational aggression
