Social Psychology

Question 1

What is dispositional attribution

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Explanations for why events or actions occur based on peoples internal characteristics such as abilities traits moods or efforts

Question 2

What is situational attributions

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Explanations for why events or actions occur based on external factors such as the weather like accidents or other peoples actions

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What is fundamental attribution error

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The tendency to overemphasize personality traits in underestimate situations when attempting to explain other people’s behavior

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Actor/Observer bias

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The tendency to focus on situations rather than personality traits when interpreting our own behavior

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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Peoples tendency to behave in ways that confirm their own or other peoples expectations

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Stereotype threat

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Apprehension about confirming negative stereotypes related to a persons own group

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Prejudice

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Negative feelings and opinions and beliefs associated with a stereotype about people in a particular group

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Discrimination

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The inappropriate and unjustified treatment of people based on the groups they belong to

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Attitude

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Feelings and beliefs about objects events and ideas

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Attitude accessibility

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Is or difficulty of retrieving an attitude from memory

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Mere exposure effect

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The increase in liking due to repeated exposure

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Explicit attitude

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An attitude that your consciously aware of and can report

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Implicit attitudes

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An attitude that influences your feelings and behavior at an unconscious level and is often revealed indirectly through behavior

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Cognitive dissonance

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An uncomfortable mental state due to a contradiction between two attitudes or between an attitude and a behavior

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Persuasion

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The active and conscious effort to change an attitude by sending a message

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Central route

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A method of persuasion that uses hi elaboration that as you pay attention to the arguments and consider all the information in the message this method usually results in development and stronger attitudes that last overtime and that you actively defend

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Peripheral route

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A method of persuasion that uses lower elaboration that is you minimally processed a message this method usually results in development of weaker attitudes that are more likely to change over time

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Social facilitation

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And the fact that occurs when the mere presence of others improve performance

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Social loafing

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And the fact that occurs when people tend to work class hard in a group than they do when they work alone

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Deindividuation

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Estates of reduced individuality reduce self-awareness and reduced attention to personal standards it may occur when people belong to a group

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Conformity

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The act of altering your own behaviors in opinions to match those of other people or to match other peoples expectations

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Social norms

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Expected standards of conduct that influence behavior

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Compliance

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The act of agreeing to do things requested by others

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Obedience

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The actor following the orders of a person of authority

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Aggression

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Any behavior that involves the intention to harm someone else

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Frustration aggression hypothesis

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The idea that the more frustrated you feel the more likely you are to act aggressively

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Prosocial

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Acting in ways that tend to benefit others

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Altruism

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Willingness to provide help When it is needed with no apparent reward for doing so

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Bystander effect

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The failure of bystanders to offer help to a person in need

Question 30

Passionate love

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Estate of intense longing sexual desire

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Compassionate love

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A strong commitment to supporting and caring for a partner