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Chapter 13 Social Psychbology Flashcards

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1
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What does it mean to be prejudice?

A

An unjustifiable attitude towards a group of people

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What does it mean to be overt?

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Prejudice - no doubter

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What does it mean to be subtle

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Not as blatant

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What is a stereotype?

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Generalized belief

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What are social inequalities?

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A principle reason behind prejudice

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What does it mean to be ingroup?

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Part of “us”

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What does it mean to be “out group”?

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It’s “them”

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What is the scapegoat theory?

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The theory that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

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What is the just-world phenomenon?

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Blame the victim

Relieves anxiety

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What is the attribution theory?

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The idea that we give a causal explanation for someone’s behavior

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What is external attribution?

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We credit behavior to the situation

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What is internal attribution?

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Credit behavior through the persons disposition

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Is situational attribution theory internal or external?

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External

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Is dispositional attribution theory internal or external?

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Internal

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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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The tendency to underestimate the impact of a situation and overestimate the impact of personal disposition

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What is self-serving bias?

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Tendency to attribute ones successes to personal factors and ones failures to situational factors

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What is the active-observer bias

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Attributes others behaviors to dis potion but your own behavior (even same behaviors) to situational factors

18
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What is the mere exposure effect?

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The more exposed to something the more you will like it

19
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What is cognitive dissonance?

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The discomfort caused by holding two contradictory beliefs or performing an action contradictory to our beliefs

20
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Who is associated with cognitive dissonance?

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Leon Festinger with the boring task

21
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What is the peripheral route of persuasion?

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Popularity route

22
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What is the central route of persuasion?

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The issues

23
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What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?

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Agree to small request and gradual build up requests

24
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What is the door-in-the-face phenomenon?

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Large request at first and followed by smaller ones

25
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What are the five factors of attraction?

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Proximity
Reciprocal liking 
Similarity
Liking through association
Physical attractiveness
26
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What is conformity?

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Adjusting your behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

27
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Who is associated with conformity and why?

A

Ashe

Zimbardo prison act

28
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What is normative social influence?

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

29
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What is informative social influence?

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Influence resulting from ones willingness to accept others opinions about reality

30
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What was Milgram’s experiment?

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Obedience

Electric shock

66% went to 450 volts

31
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What is defensive attribution?

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Tendency to blame victims for their misfortune

32
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What is attitude?

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A belief and feeling that predisposes a person to respond in a particular way to objects, other people, and events.

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What is social loafing?

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A reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups as compared to when they work by themselves

34
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What is group polarization?

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Occurs when group discussion strengthens a groups dominant point of view and produces a shift toward a more extreme decision in that direction

35
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What is groupthink?

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Occurs when members of a cohesive group emphasize concurrence at the expense of critical thinking in arriving at a decision

36
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What is the bystander effect?

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People are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone

37
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What is obedience?

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A form of compliance that occurs when people follow direct commands

38
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What is reciprocity?

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The rule that we should pay back in kind what we receive from others

39
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What is person perception?

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The process of forming impressions of others

40
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What is social schema?

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describes an organized pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them.

41
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Why do humans make attributions?

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To lessen anxiety and make send of the social world

42
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What is social psychology?

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It considers how individuals interact with each other and society at large

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