Chapter 18- First Half

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Attribution theory

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Suggests how we explain someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition

Question 1

Social psychology

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

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Fundamental attribution error

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

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Attitudes

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Feelings, often based on our beliefs, which predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events

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Foot in the door phenomenon

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

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Phillip Zimbardo– Stanford Prison Experiment

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Students were assigned to be a prisoner or prison guard, students instructed for how to treat each other, guards were inhuman and cruel to prisoners,
Relates to role playing, experiment was cut short

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Cognitive Dissonance Theory

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The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance )we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are not consistent
When actions don’t represent your attitude

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Conformity

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Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

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The Asch Conformity Experiment

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Had a group of “confederates” (in on the experiment, an actor) 1 man didn’t know in group, and chooses the wrong answer to fit in with group decision

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Normative social influence

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Influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

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Informational social influence

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Influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others openings about reality
Open-mindedness

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Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment

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1 confederate and 1 unknowing experiment, unknown is teacher, excitement is suppose to test a person’s ability to inflict pain upon a person when given instruction to

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Social facilitation

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

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Social loafing

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The tendency for people in a group to put forth less effort when working toward a common goal than when individually accountable

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Deindividuation

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The loss of self-awareness/self restraint in groups

People are much more likely to do things in a group setting, be more expressive

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Group polarization

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The increase in a stance and pursuing it when in a group, to explain it to a group

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Groupthink

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The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony and decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives

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Prejudice

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And unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members usually involves stereotypes negative feelings and discriminatory actions

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Stereotype

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A generalized believe about a group of people

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Discrimination

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Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members

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Social thinking

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How we Explains someone’s behavior by crediting either the person or situation

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Dispositional

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Internal, a person is at fault

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Situational

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External situation, the event was unavoidable and they are not at fault

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Role playing

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People who behaved in certain ways in scriptures scenarios have adopted attitudes in keeping with these roles

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The chameleon effect

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The tendency to unconsciously mimic those around us