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Vocab 151-200 Flashcards

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The scientific study of how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by the groups we belong

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Social Psychology

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Who conducted the leadership style experiment?

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Kurt Lewin

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Who conducted the conformity experiment?

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Solomon Asch

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Who conducted the obedience to authority experiment?

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Stanley Milgram

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Who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment?

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Philip Zimbardo

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Change in behavior brought about by social pressure to comply with people perceived to be authority figures

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Obedience

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What was the independent variable in Milgram’s obedience experiment?

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The Authority Figure

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What was the dependent variable in Milgram’s obedience experiment?

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Obedience

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What percentage of participants in Milgram’s Obedience Experiment went all the way to 450 volts?

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65% (26/40)

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What did Milgram use to measure the behavior of obedience?

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The Shock Machine

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Kind of leadership style: Leader makes all the decisions and assigns tasks to group members

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Authoritarian

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Kind of leadership style: Leader is only minimally involved in group decision-making

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Laissez-Faire

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Kind of leadership style: Leader encourages group members to come to decisions through consensus

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Democratic

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According to Kurt Lewin’s Leadership Experiment, which leadership style is the best?

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Democratic

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In Lewin’s Leadership Style Experiment, what was the Independent Variable?

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Leadership Style

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In Lewin’s Leadership Style Experiment, what was the Dependent Variable?

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Productivity

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Acting in accord with group norms or customs

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Conformity

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Approximately what percentage of participants conformed at least once during Solomon Asch’s experiment?

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70%

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In Asch’s Conformity Experiment, what was the Independent Variable?

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The size of the group

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In Asch’s Conformity Experiment, what was the Dependent Variable?

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Conformity

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A cognitive bias that causes one’s perception of another to be unduly influenced by a single positive trait, such as being attractive

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The Halo Effect

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A cognitive bias that causes one’s perception of another to be unduly influenced by a single negative trait

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The Horn Effect

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An inclination to over attribute others’ behavior to internal causes and to discount situational factors

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Tendency to attribute one’s own behavior to situational causes but to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes

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Actor-Observer Bias

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Tendency to view one’s successes as stemming from internal factors and one’s failures as stemming from external factors

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Self-Serving Bias

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Someone who tends to see positive events as being internal, stable, and global is said to have what kind of explanatory style?

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Optimistic Explanatory Style

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Someone who tends to see negative events as being internal, stable, and global is said to have what kind of explanatory style?

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Pessimistic Explanatory Style

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Unrealistically pessimistic appraisals of stress that exaggerate the magnitude of one’s problems

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Catastrophic Thinking

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Belief that bad things happen to bad people

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Just World Hypothesis
Just World Bias

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The tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way

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Defensive Attribution

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The tendency for people to overestimate the number of people who agree with them is called what?

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The False Consensus Effect

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Set of assumptions about groups of people, either positive or negative, based on half-truths and non-truths

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Stereotype

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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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The unequal treatment of individuals on the basis of their ethnic group, age, gender, or religion

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Discrimination

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The belief that one’s ethnicity is superior to others

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Ethnocentrism

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The legal, social, economic, and political oppression of an ethnic group

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Racism

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A person fears doing something that could confirm a negative stereotype about an individual’s group

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Stereotype Threat (STT)

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A person’s performance improve because of positive stereotypes about the group to which they belong

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Stereotype Boost (SBT)

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A person’s performance improves as a result of having a negative out-group stereotype

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Stereotype Lift

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Normal psychological stress; beneficial stress

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Eustress

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Extreme anxiety that impairs performance; bad stress

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Distress

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Two or more people who share common norms, ideology

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Group

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Standards of behavior expected by group members

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Norms

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The set of ideas or principles for which a group stands

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Ideology

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When a group’s members identify with their group

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In-Group

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Includes everyone who is not part of the group

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Out-Group

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The tendency for humans to be more helpful and positive towards members of their own group

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In-Group Bias

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People tend to see members of their own group (in-group) as more diverse than members of other groups

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Out-Group Homogeneity

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The tendency to blame someone else for one’s own problems; often results in feelings of prejudice toward the person or group that one is blaming

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Scapegoat Theory

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Racist conspiracy theory that argues Jewish people are financing the migration of Latinos and Muslims into Europe and America in order to bring about white genocide

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The Great Replacement Theory

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