Chapter 18 1st Half

Question 0

Suggest how we explain someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the persons disposition

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Attribution theory

Question 1

The scientific study of how we think about influence and relate to one another

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Social psychology

Question 2

The tendency for observers when analyzing another’s behavior to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition

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Fundamental attribution error

Question 3

Feeling often based on our beliefs that predispose is to respond in a particular way to objects people and events

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Attitudes

Question 4

The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger one

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Foot in the door phenomenon

Question 5

A toxic situation triggered degrading behaviors among those assigned a fraud role while the prisoners broke down mentally ended experiment early and later admitted to how the experiment failed

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Philip Zimbardo stand ford prison experiment

Question 6

Theory that we act to reduce discomfort we feel when our thoughts are inconsistent for example when our awareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes

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Cognitive dissonance theory

Question 7

Adjusting ones behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

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Conformity

Question 8

Conducted by Solomon Ash consisting of a set if simple questions with clear cut answers after first two questions the third question had the same clear cut answer but the four people before you conform with the others by answering with the incorrect answer

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The ash conformity experiment

Question 9

Influence resulting from ones willingness to accept others opinions about reality

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Informational social influence

Question 10

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

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Social facilitation

Question 11

The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling heir efforts toward attaining a common goal that when individual accountable

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Social loafing

Question 12

The loss of self awareness and self restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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Deindividuation

Question 13

The enhancement of a groups prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group

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Group polarization

Question 14

The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire doe harming in decision making group override a realistic approach of alternativeness

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Group thinking

Question 15

A unjustifiable attitude toward a group and it’s members generally includes stereotyped beliefs negative feelings and a predisposition to discriminatory actions

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Prejudice

Question 16

A generalized belief about a group of people

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Stereotype

Question 17

Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or it’s members

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Discrimination