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Majority influence

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When the majority of a group tries to influence others in the group to conform to their beliefs

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Conformity

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Yielding to group pressure

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Obedience

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Following orders from someone we perceive as having more authority than us

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Situational factors

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How external influences affect our behavior

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Normative conformity

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Conformity that is due to us wanting to fit in

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Group norm

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Specific ideas or assumptions held by a particular group

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Confederate

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An actor that is working for the experimenter who pretends to be part of the experiment

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Informational conformity

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People conform because they want to be perceived as correct and so follow the lead of others

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In-group

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Someone who is part of your group due to a common factor

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Out-group

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Someone who is not in your group due to not having a common factor

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Deindividuation

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When people are in a crowd and they lose their sense of individuality and feel more anonymous

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Collectivist culture

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The needs of the group are seen as more important than the needs of the individual.

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Individualist culture

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The needs of the individual are seen as more important than the needs of the group

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Altruism

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Helping others without expecting or receiving any reward

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Reciprocal altruism

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Where we help others and expect something back

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Authority figure

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Someone we perceive as having more power than ourselves

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Autonomous state

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Where the individual feels responsible for their own actions

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Agentic state

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Where the individual does not feel responsible for their own actions because they are acting under orders from an authority figure

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Dispositional factors

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How internal factors affect our behaviour

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Locus of control

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How much control a person feels they have over their own life, with reference to external and internal factors

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Morality

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Understanding what is right and wrong in how we think and behave

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Psychopath

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Someone who has a mental illness which is defined by having a lack of empathy for other people and a tendency to act immorally

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Authoritarian personality

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A personality type that is very obedient to authority.

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Minority influence

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The idea that small groups of people can change the opinion and beliefs of larger groups of people

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Attitudes

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Feelings of like or dislike towards something

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Self-esteem

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How much an individual values themselves

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Stigma

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A strong sense of disapproval for something

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Positive correlation

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where two variables travel in the same direction

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Pro-social behaviour

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Behaviour that contributes to society in some way

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Opportunity sample

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A sample selected by convenience

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Reductionism

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Viewing human behaviour from a simple perspective

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Random sample

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A sample collected by chance

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Laboratory experiment

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Where an IV is manipulated in a controlled environment to test it’s effect on a DV

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Gender bias

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To favour one gender over another

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Field experiment

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Where an IV is manipulated in a natural environment to test it’s impact on a DV

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Extraneous variable

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A variable that you are not studying in the test that can affect the DV unless it’s controlled

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Determinism

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The idea that how we think and behave is determined by outside forces such as genetics or environmental influences such as our upbringing

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Anti-social behaviour

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Behaviour that takes something away from society and harms it in some way

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Acquiescence bias

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When we answer a survey without thinking about the questions

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Demand characteristics

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Where we guess the aim of the experiment and change our behaviour because of it

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