Chapter 8 Flashcards
Define: roles
Positions that are governed by sets of norms
Define: culture
Set of values, beliefs and attitudes that govern members of a community
Define: entrapment
When you escalate commitment to justify investment of time, money or effort
Define: social cognition
Concerned with social influences on thought, memory, perception and other cognitive processes
Attribution theory asks
Why people do the things they do through situation of dispositional attribution
Situation attribution says that the behavior is in the ______
Environment
Dispositional attribution says the cause of the behavior lies within __________
The person
Fundamental Attribution Error
States that people are more likely to blame the personality of others, rather than what might be going on
The actor observer effect
Is when you tend to blame the situation for your own behavior and the disposition about the behaviors of other
Define: self-serving bias
Choosing the dispositional explanation for positive behavior, and situational for negative behavior
The Need to belong is
When your behavior changes because of what the majority does
Define: conformity
Doing things because of real or imagined group pressure
Deindividuation explains why
When in a group, we follow what the crowd
Define: deindividuation
The loss of ones own individuality
The two categories of the bystander effect are
Pluralistic ignorance and diffusion of responsibility
