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PSYCH 110 CH 16
Social Behavior
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/05/2010

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Social Psychology
Definition
studies the way individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others.
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Illusory Correlation
Definition
Occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more conformations of association between social traits than they have actually seen.
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Attributions
Definition
Causes people draws about the causes of events, others behavior, and their own behavior.
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Definition
Observers bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others behavior
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Defensive Attribution
Definition
Tendency to blame victims for their own misfortune.
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Self-Serving Bias
Definition
Tendency to attribute ones own success to personal factors; failures to situational factors.
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Matching hypothesis
Definition
people pick mates with similar attractiveness
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reciprocity
Definition
liking those who like you
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attitudes
Definition
positive or negative evaluations of objects of thought
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Evaluative Conditioning
Definition
Consists of a few efforts to transfer emotion attached to a US to a new CS
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Dissonance theory
Definition
Assumes that inconsistency among attitudes propels people in the direction of change.
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cognitive dissonance
Definition
when related cognitions are inconsistent. they contradict eachother
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Bem's self-perception Theory
Definition
People often infer there attitudes from there behavior (backwords seeming)
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Elaboration Likelihood model
Definition
1. central route, taken when people carefully ponder the content of messages. 2. perpheral route-baced on nonmessage factors, like attractiveness. (persuasive)
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group
Definition
2 or + people who interact and are interdependent
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Bystander Effect
Definition
people are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone
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Social Loafing
Definition
reduction in effort by individuals to work in groups comparted to on their own
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groupthink
Definition
members of a group emphasize concurrance at the expense of critical thinking in arriving at a decision
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group polarization
Definition
group discussion strengthens the dominant pt of view
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group cohesiveness
Definition
strength and liking relationships liking group members to eachother and the group itself
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realistic group conflict theory
Definition
intergroup hostility is likely as a natural outgrowth of competition among groups
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reciprocity norm
Definition
pay back what you receive
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low-ball technique
Definition
getting someone to commit to a propositivon before the hidden costs are revealed
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