Social Terminology Flashcards
Social psychology
The ways people influence each other’s attitudes and behavior, the impact that individuals have on one another, the impact that social groups have on individual group members.
Free-choice dissonance
Occurs in a situation where a person makes a choice between several desirable alternatives.
Minimal justification effect
When behavior can be justified by means of external inducements, then there is no need to change internal cognitions.
Forced-compliance dissonance
Occurs when an individual is forced into behaving in a manner that is inconsistent with their beliefs and attitudes.
Post-decisional dissonance
When dissonance (discomfort w/ inconsistency) emerges after a choice.
Overjustification effect
If you reward people for something they already like doing, they may stop liking it.
Belief perserverance
Under certain conditions, people will hold beliefs even after those beliefs have been debunked.
Reactance
When someone reasserts their sense of freedom after feeling that it is being threatened by social pressure.
Gain-loss principle
An evaluation that changes will have more of an impact that an evaluation that remains constant.
Attractiveness stereotype
The tendency to attribute positive qualities to pretty people.
Need complementarity
Claims that people choose relationships in which they can mutually satisfy each other’s needs.
Spatial proximity
People will develop a greater liking for someone closer than someone far away.
Cultural truisms
Beliefs that are hardly questioned.
Altruism
A form of helping behavior in which we look to help someone else at a cost to us.
Pluralistic ignorance
Leading others to a definition of an event as a nonemergency.
