Unit 14 AP psychology

Question 1

Feeling often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose our reactions to objects, people, and events

Answer 1

Attitudes

Question 2

Regard something as being caused by someone

Answer 2

Attributes

Question 3

We explain behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition

Answer 3

Attribution theory

Question 4

The tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of situational factors and overestimate their behavior to personal disposition

Answer 4

Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 5

Focusing on the argument or specifics when trying to alter someone’s opinion

Answer 5

Central Route Persuasion

Question 6

Focusing on incidental cues that don’t truly explain the specifics when trying to alter opinion

Answer 6

Peripheral Route Persuasion

Question 7

Agree to a small request to comply with a larger request later

Answer 7

Foot in the Door Phenomenon

Question 8

Be asked to comply to a large request, where a small request is what is desired

Answer 8

Door in the face phenomenon

Question 9

To reduce discomfort when two of our attitudes are inconsistent

Answer 9

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Conformity

Question 11

Adjusting behavior seeking approval or avoid disproval

Answer 11

Normative Social Influence

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Informational Social Influence

Question 13

Compliance with an order, submission to one’s authority

Answer 13

Obedience

Question 14

Stronger responses on simple or well known tasks in the presence of others

Answer 14

Social facilitation

Question 15

Weaker responses on simple or well known tasks in the presence of others

Answer 15

Social inhibition

Question 16

Tendency for people, when working in groups to exert less effort than working aline

Answer 16

Social loafing

Question 17

Loss of self-control and restraint in large group situations that foster anonymity

Answer 17

Deindividuation

Question 18

When discussion with a like minded group, we tend to come away with more extreme beliefs

Answer 18

Group Polarization

Question 19

Favoring of one’s own group over those outside the group

Answer 19

In group Bias

Question 20

Ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people

Answer 20

Culture behaviors

Question 21

Rules for accepted and expected behavior

Answer 21

Norms

Question 22

Negative attitude that you have towards a person or group of people

Answer 22

Prejudice

Question 23

Turning negative attitudes and behaviors into actions

Answer 23

Discrimination