Social psychology Flashcards
Cognitive dissonance
And consistency among experiments, believes, or feelings. People are motivated to reinterpret experiences, Believes, feeling so they are consistent
Attribution
How one explains one’s own and others behavior
Fundamental attribution error
The tendency to explain behavior as an effect of dispositional rather than situation
Self-serving bias
Attributing one successes to internal causes and once failure to external causes, taking credit for successes rather than Failures
Social role theories
Behavior is a function of a person social role such as gender or race
Zimbardo’s prison study
Students assigned to guard or prisoner rolls and behavior change to fit the assigned role
Self-concept
One thoughts about the self
Self-esteem
One’s judgment about the value and worth of the self
Self-consciousness
The tendency to pay attention to what the self is doing, thinking, and feeling
Self-monitoring
The ability to shape one’s own behavior to conform to the demands of the group or situation
Self perception theory
One indirectly in first ones own attitudes and feelings by observing one’s own behavior and using attribution processes
Group polarization
Tendency of a group to express more extreme views than members would express as individuals
Social facilitation affect
Tendency for people to perform better when others are watching
Bystander effect
Diffusion of responsibility when a large group of people is present
Conformity
Tendency for people to follow the behavior of the group
