Social Psychology Flashcards

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Social Psychology

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

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Attributing Theory

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The theory that we explain someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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The tendency for observers, when analyzing others’ behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.

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Dispositional Attribution

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Dispositional attribution is a phrase in personality psychology that refers to the tendency to assign responsibility for others’ behaviors due to their inherent characteristics, such as their motives, beliefs or personality, rather than the external influences, such as the individual’s environment or culture.

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Situational Attribution

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Situational attributions, also known as external attributions, occur when we infer that a behavior or event is caused by some factor relative to the situation. When we blame things on the weather, traffic, or alcohol, among others, we are using situational attribution.

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Attitude

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Feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.

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Peripheral Route Persuasion

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Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as speaker’s attractiveness.

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Central Route Persuasion

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Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.

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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 a larger request.

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Door-In-The-Face Phenomenon

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The Door-in-the-Face Technique (DITF) is a psychological tactic through which one person may be able to secure another person’s agreement to take on a significant responsibility.

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Role

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A set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave.

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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 inconsistent. For example, when we become aware that our attitudes and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes.

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Norms

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Understood rules for accepted and expected behavior. Norms prescribe “proper” behavior.

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Conformity

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Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

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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’ opinions about reality.

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Social Facilitation

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Improved performance 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 exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.

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Deindividuation

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The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occuring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.

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Group Polarization

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The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.

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Groupthink

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

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Culture

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The values, beliefs, language, rituals, traditions, and other behaviors that are passed from one generation to another within any social group.

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Prejudice

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An unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action.

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Stereotype

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A generalized belief about a group of people

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Discrimination

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Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members

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Just-World Phenomenon

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The tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

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Ingroup

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“Us” - People with whom we share a common identity

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Outgroup

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“Them” - Those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup.

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Ingroup Bias

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The tendency to favor our own group.

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Scapegoat Theory

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The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.

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Other-Race Effect

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The tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than faces of other races. Also called the cross-race effect and the own-race bias.

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Aggression

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Any physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone physically or emotionally.

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Frustration-Aggression Principle

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The principle that frustration - the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal - creates anger, which can generate aggression.

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Social Script

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A culturally modeled guide for how to act in various situations

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Mere Exposure Effect

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The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them.

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Passionate Love

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An aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a romantic relationship.

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Compassionate Love

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The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined.

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Equity

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A condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it.

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Self Disclosure

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The act of revealing intimate aspects of ourselves to others.

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Altruism

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Unselfish regard for the welfare of others

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Bystander Effect

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The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.

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Social Exchange Theory

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The theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs.

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Reciprocity Norm

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An expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them.

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Social-Responsibility Norm

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An expectation that people will help those needing their help

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Conflict

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A perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas.

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Social Traps

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A situation in which the conflicting parties, by each pursuing their self-interest rather than the good of the group, become caught in mutually destructive behavior.

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Mirror-Image Perceptions

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Mutual views often held by conflicting people, as when each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side as evil and aggressive.

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Self-Fulflling Prophecy

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A belief that leads to its own fulfillment

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Superordinate Goals

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Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation

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Philip Zimardo

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Philip Zimbardo conducted the infamous Stanford prison experiment, where participants were randomly assigned roles as prisoners or guards, demonstrating the power of situational factors in influencing behavior. He also contributed to our understanding of social influence and conformity through his research on the psychology of evil.

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Soloman Asch

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Solomon Asch is renowned for his conformity experiments, where participants were asked to match line lengths, revealing the extent to which people yield to group pressure even when it contradicts their own perceptions.

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Stanley Milgram

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Stanley Milgram conducted the obedience experiments, demonstrating the startling willingness of ordinary individuals to obey authority figures, even to the extent of administering what they believed to be lethal electric shocks to others.

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Leon Festinger

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Leon Festinger proposed the theory of cognitive dissonance, which explains how individuals strive for consistency between their beliefs and behaviors, leading to discomfort when they are in conflict, and driving them to alleviate this discomfort through various means, such as changing their beliefs or justifying their actions.