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the branch of psychology that studies the effect of social variables on individual behaviour, attitudes, perceptions and motives, also studies group and intergroup phenomena.

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Social Psychology?

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the process by which people select, interpret and remember social information.

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Social cognition?

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The process by which a person comes to know or perceive the personal attributes.

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Social perception?

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A social cognitive approach to describing the ways the social perceiver uses information to generate causal explanations.

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Attribution theory?

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A theory that suggests that people attribute a behaviour to a causal factor if that factor was present whenever the behaviour occurred but was absent whenever it didn’t occur.

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Covariation model?

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The dual tendency of observers to underestimate the impact of situational factors and to overestimate the influence of dispositional factors on a person’s behaviour.

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Fundamental attribution error (FAE)?

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An attributional bias in which people tend to take credit for their successes and deny responsibility for their failures.

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Self-serving bias

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A prediction made about some future behaviour or event that modifies interactions so as to procuce what is expected.

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Self-fulfilling prophecy?

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A socially defined pattern of behaviour that is expected of a person who is functioning in a given setting or group.

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Social role?

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Behavioural guidelines for acting in certain ways in certain situations.

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Rule?

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The expectation a group has for its members regarding acceptable and appropriate attitudes and behaviours.

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Social norms?

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The tendency for people to adopt the behaviours, attitudes and values of other members of a reference group.

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Conformity?

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Group effects that arise from individuals’ desire to be correct and right and to understand how best to act in a given situation.

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Informational influence?

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Group effects that arise from individuals’s desire to be liked, accepted and approved of by others.

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Normative influence?

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The convergence of the expectations of a group of individuals into a common perspective as they talk and carry out activities together.

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Norm crystallisation?

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The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the decisions that would be made by the members acting alone.

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Group polarisation?

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The tendency of a decisoin-making group to filter out undesirable input so that a consensus may be reached, especially if it is in line with the leader’s viewpoint.

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GroupThink

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The learned, relatively stable tendencys to respond to people, concepts and events in an evaluative way.

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attitude?

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Deliberate efforts to change attitudes.

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Persuasion?

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A theory of persuasion that defines how likely it is that people will focus their cognitive processes to elaborate upon a message and therefore follow the central and peripheral routes to persuasion.

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Elaboration likelihood model?