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Unit 8 Vocabulary: Social Psych Flashcards

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What sport does Coach Brackett Coach?

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Basketball

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What is the predisposition to act, think, and feel in a particular way toward a class of people object or idea?

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Attitude

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What is our perception of ourself?

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Self-concept

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What is a change of behavior to avoid comfort or reject and gain approval?

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Compliance

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What is what is seeing one-self as similar to another person or group and accepting the attitudes of another person or group as one’s own?

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Identification

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What is incorporating the values, ideas, and standards of others as a part of oneself?

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Internalization

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What is the uncomfortable feeling when a person experiences contradictory or conflicting thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, or feelings?

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Cognitive Dissonance

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What is the process of taking a public position that contradicts one’s private attitude?

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Counterattitudinal behavior

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What is the need to rationalize one’s attitude and behavior?

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Self-justification

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What is a belief, prediction, or expectation that operates to bring about its own fulfillment

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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What is a preconceived attitude toward a person or group that have been formed without sufficient evidence and are not easily changed?

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Prejudice

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What is the unequal treatment of individuals on the basis of their race, ethnic group, age, gender, or membership in another category rather than on the basis of individual characteristics?

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Discrimination

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What is the direct attempt to influence attitudes?

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Persuasion

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What is a change in attitude or behavior opposite of the one desired by the persuader?

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Boomerang effect

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What is the delayed impact on attitude change of a persuasive communication?

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Sleeper effect

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What is developing resistance to persuasion by exposing a person to arguments that challenge his or her beliefs so that he or she can practice defending them?

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Inoculation effect

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What is the extreme form of attitude change; uses peer pressure, physical suffering, threats, rewards, guilt, and intensive indoctrination?

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Brainwashing

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A collection of people who have shared goals, a degree of interdependence, and some amount of communication is?

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Group

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Activities directed toward getting a job done

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Task functions

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Responses directed toward satisfying the emotional needs of members

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Social functions

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Shared standards of behavior accepted by and expected from group members

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Norms

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The set of principles, attitudes,and defined objectives for which a group stands

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Ideology

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An increase on performance in front of a crowd

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Social facilitation

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A decrease in performance in front of a crowd

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Social inhibition

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Theory that group discussion reinforces the majority’s point of view and shifts group members opinions to a more extreme position

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Group polarization

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Poor group decisions making that occurs as a result of a group emphasizing unity over critical thinking

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Group think

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A group diagram that represents relationships within a group , especially likes and dislikes of members for other members

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Socko gram

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Acting in according with group norms or customs

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Conformity

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A change in attitude or behavior brought about by social pressure to comply with people perceived to be authority’s

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Obedience

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Behavior intended to do physical or psychological harm to others

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Aggression

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Releasing anger or aggression by letting out powerful negative emotions

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Catharsis

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Helping others , often at a cost or risk , for reasons other than rewards

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Altruism

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The presence of others lessens and individuals feelings of responsibility for his or her actions or failure to act

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Diffusion of responsibility

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An individual does not take action because of the presence of others

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Bystander effect

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The tendency to work less hard when sharing the workload with others

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Social loafing

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Individuals behave irrationally when there is less chance of being personally identified

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Deindividuation

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Seeks to explain how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by interactions with others.

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Social Psychology

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Focuses on how we perceive, store, and retrieve information about social interactions.

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Social Cognition

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The distance of one person to another person.

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Physical Proximity

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The ability of a person to interest you in or to expose you to new ideas and experiences.

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Stimulation Value

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The ability of a person to help another achieve his or her goals.

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Utility Value

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The ability of a person to provide another person with sympathy, encouragement, and approval.

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Ego-Support Value

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The attraction that often develops between opposite types of people because of the ability of one to supply what the other lacks.

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Complementarity

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The tendency to form opinions on others based on first impressions.

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Primacy Effect

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A set of assumptions about people in a given category often based on half truths and nontruths.

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Stereotype

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A collection of principles based on our explanations of the causes of events, other people’s behaviors, and our own behaviors.

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Attribution Theory

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An inclination to over attribute others’ behavior to internal causes (dispositional factors) and discount the situational factors contributing to their behavior.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Tendency to attribute one’s own behavior to outside causes but attribute the behavior of others to internal causes.

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Actor-Observer Bias

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A tendency to claim success is due to our efforts, while failure is due to circumstances beyond our control.

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Self-Serving Bias

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The process through which messages are conveyed using space, body language, and facial expression.

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Nonverbal Communication

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The theory that people of different ages tend to think differently about certain issues because of different formative experiences.

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Generational Identity

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What is the short-term psychological first aid that helps individuals and families deal with emergencies or highly stressful situations?

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Crisis intervention program

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What is a standardized test that consists of four assessment tests that measure academic development?

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ACT

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What is a standardized test that is an admission requirement at some colleges; the test measures verbal and mathematical reasoning abilities?

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SAT

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What deals with diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and testimony regarding the law and criminal behavior?

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Forensic psychology

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What deals with the psychology of the work plac

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Industrial/organizational psychology

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What studies athletics and athletic? performance

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Sports psychology

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What is mentally rehearsing the steps involved in a successful performance or process?

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Visualization

59
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What is the study of arguing?

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Gerontology

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