Social Psychology

Question 1

Dispositional Attributions

Answer 1

their behavior was lazy

Question 2

Situation Attributions

Answer 2

The persons behavior has to do with something going on in their life

Question 3

attitude

Answer 3

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

Question 4

foot-in-the-door phenomenon

Answer 4

the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with larger request (working your way from 11 to 2 curfew)

Question 5

role

Answer 5

set of expectations about a social position (when you first step into a position you are just playing an act)

Question 6

cognitive dissonance theory

Answer 6

the clashing of our actions and beliefs

Question 7

conformity

Answer 7

adjust our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

Question 8

normative social influence

Answer 8

influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

Question 9

informational social influence

Answer 9

accepting others influence about reality

Question 10

social facilitatin

Answer 10

improved performance on simple or well learn tasks in he presence of others (Max when he golfs)

Question 11

social loafing

Answer 11

the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their effects together than they are when they are individually accountable (group projects)

Question 12

deindividuation

Answer 12

the loss of accountability so you are willing to do whatever (yik yak)

Question 13

group polarization

Answer 13

becoming more firm in your beliefs by hearing people who also agree with you

Question 14

groupthink

Answer 14

don’t consider alternatives because harmony in everyone agreeing overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives

Question 15

culture

Answer 15

the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

Question 16

norm

Answer 16

an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. Norms prescribe proper behavior (cultural norm: handshake)

Question 17

prejudice

Answer 17

an unjustifiable and negative attitude toward a group and its members…it means pre judgment

Question 18

stereotype

Answer 18

a generalized belief about a group of people

Question 19

discrimination

Answer 19

unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members

Question 20

just-world phenomenon

Answer 20

(kind of like karma) the good guys win and the bad guys get what they deserve

Question 21

ingroup bias

Answer 21

the tendency to favor our own group

Question 22

scapegoat theory

Answer 22

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

Question 23

other race effect

Answer 23

the tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than faces of other races

Question 24

aggression

Answer 24

any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy

Question 25

frustration-aggression principle

Answer 25

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

Question 26

social script

Answer 26

culturally modeled guide for how to act in various situations (when we don’t know how to behave, we rely on social scrips) (Child more likely to beat his child if they were beat as a kid)

Question 27

mere exposure effect

Answer 27

the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them (long distance don’t tend to work)

Question 28

passionate love

Answer 28

an aroused state of intense positive absorption of another…usually towards the beginning of a love relationship

Question 29

companionate love

Answer 29

the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those whom our lives are intertwined

Question 30

equity

Answer 30

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

Question 31

self-disclosure

Answer 31

revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others

Question 32

altruism

Answer 32

unselfish regard for the welfare of others

Question 33

bystander effect

Answer 33

the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give help if others are present

Question 34

social exchange theory

Answer 34

if they reward of giving help outweighs the pain involved, you will help. (giving blood example)

Question 35

reciprocity norm

Answer 35

an expectation that people will help, not hurt those who have help them

Question 36

social-responsibility norm

Answer 36

an expectation that people will help those needing their help (Children, elderly)

Question 37

conflict

Answer 37

a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas

Question 38

social trap

Answer 38

(the two five credit thing) not caring about the good of the group, only pursuing our personal interests

Question 39

mirror-image perceptions

Answer 39

mutual views often help by collecting people, as each side sees themselves as Lukes and the others as Jordan Zadra’s

Question 40

superordinate oals

Answer 40

shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation

Question 41

5 factors of attraction

Answer 41

Proximity, similarity, physical attractiveness, reciprocal liking, association