Unit 14: Social Psychology

Question 1

The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.

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Social Psychology

Question 2

The theory that we explain someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition.

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Attribution Theory

Question 3

The tendency for observes, when analyzing others’ behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

Question 4

Feelings, often influence by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.

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Attitude

Question 5

Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker’s attractiveness.

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Peripheral Route Persuasion

Question 6

Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.

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Central Route Persuasion

Question 7

The 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

Question 8

A set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave.

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Role

Question 9

The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent. For example, when we become aware that our attitudes and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes.

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Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Question 10

Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

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Conformity

Question 11

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

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Normative Social Influence

Question 12

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

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Informational Social Influence

Question 13

Improved performance on simple or well learned tasks in the presence of others.

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Social Facilitation

Question 14

The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.

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Social Loafing

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The 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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The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.

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Group Polarization

Question 17

The 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

Question 18

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

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Culture

Question 19

An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior.

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Norm

Question 20

An unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members.

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Prejudice

Question 21

A generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people.

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Stereotype

Question 22

Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members

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Discrimination

Question 23

“Us” - people with whom we share a common identity

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Ingroup

Question 24

“Them” - those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup.

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Outgroup

Question 25

The tendency to favor our own group.

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Ingroup Bias

Question 26

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

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Scapegoat Theory

Question 27

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

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Other-race Effect

Question 28

Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.

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Aggression

Question 29

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

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Frustration-Aggression Principle

Question 30

The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them.

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Mere Exposure Effect

Question 31

An aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship.

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Passionate love

Question 32

The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined.

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Companionate Love

Question 33

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

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Equity

Question 34

Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others.

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Self-Disclosure

Question 35

Unselfish regard for the welfare of others.

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Altruism

Question 36

The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.

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Bystander Effect

Question 37

The theory that 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

Question 38

An expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them.

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Reciprocity Norm

Question 39

An expectation that people will help those needing their help.

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Social-Responsibility Norm

Question 40

A perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas.

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Conflict

Question 41

A situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest rather than the good of the group, become caught in mutually destructive behavior.

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Social Trap

Question 42

Mutual views often held by conflicting people, as when each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side as evil and aggressive.

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Mirror-Image Perceptions

Question 43

A belief that leads to its own fulfillment.

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.

Question 44

Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation.

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Superordinate Goals

Question 45

Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension-Reduction - a strategy designed to decrease international tensions.

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