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Unit 14 Flashcards

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Study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

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Social psychology

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We explain someone’s behavior by crediting the situation or the persons disposition

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Attribution theory

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When analyzing behavior, we overestimate the impact of personal disposition and underestimate the impact of the situation

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Fundamental attribution error

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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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Attitude

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Interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts

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Central route persuasion

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People are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker’s attractiveness

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Peripheral route persuasion

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Tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request

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Foot in the door phenomenon

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Set of norms about a social position, defining those in the position ought to behave

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Role

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Theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two do our thoughts are inconsistent

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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Proposed the cognitive dissonance theory

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Leon Festinger

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Set up college students or be guards in jail to see if their attitudes change because of their role

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Philip Zimbardo

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Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

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Conformity

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

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Normative social influence

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Influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality

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Informational social influence

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Experimented on college students about conformity

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Solomon Asch

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Experimented to see how far people will obey even though the other person is expressing pain

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Stanley Milgram

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Stronger responses in simple and well learned tasks in the presence of others

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Social facilitation

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Tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts towards attaining a common goal

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Social loafing

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Loss of self awareness and self restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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Deindividuation

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Enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group

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Group polarization

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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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Groupthink

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Behaviors, ideas, attitudes shared by a group of people and passed down from generation to generation

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Culture

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Understood rule for accepted and expected behavior

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Norm

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Buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies

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Personal space

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Unjustifiable attitude towards a group and its members

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Prejudice

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Generalized belief about a group of people

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Stereotype

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Unjustifiable negative behavior towards a group and its members

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Discrimination

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People with whom we share a common identity

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Ingroup

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Those perceived as different or apart from the ingroup

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Outgroup

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Tendency to favor our group

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Ingroup bias

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

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Scapegoat theory

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Tendency to recall faces of ones own race more accurately than the faces of other races

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Other race effect

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Tendency for people to believe the world is just and people get what they deserve and deserve what they get

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Just world phenomenon

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Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy

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Aggression

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Frustration can create anger which generates aggression

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Frustration aggression principle

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Repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them

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Mere exposure effect

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An aroused state if intense positive absorption in another

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Passionate love

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Deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined

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Companionate love

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People receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it

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Equity

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Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others

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Self disclosure

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Unselfish regard to the welfare of others

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Altruism

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Tendency of any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present

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Bystander effect

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Our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs

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Social exchange theory

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An expectation that people will help those who have helped them

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Reciprocity Norm

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An expectation that people will help those dependent of them

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Social responsibility norm

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Perceived in compatibility of actions, goals or ideas

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Conflict

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Situation in which the conflicting parties by each rationally pursuing their self interest become caught in a mutually destructive behavior

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Social trap

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Each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other as evil and aggressive

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Mirror image perceptions

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Belief that leads to its own fulfillment

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Self fulfilling prophecy

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Shared goals that override differences among people and require cooperation

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Superordinate goals

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Strategy to decrease international tensions

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GRIT

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Attribute our actions to situational factors but those we are observing to disposiotion

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Actor/observer effect

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Give into social pressure in our public responses but not private belief

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Compliance

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Conflict that results from having to choose between 2 attractive alternatives

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Approach-approach

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Conflict that results from having to choose between 2 distasteful alternatives

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Avoidance-avoidance

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Conflict that results from having to choose between an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects

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Approach-avoidance

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