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Social Psychology
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Psychology
12th Grade
04/30/2014

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ATTITUDE
Definition
How you feel towards a subject/person/idea
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MERE EXPOSURE EFFECT
Definition
  • the more you are exposed to an idea/person the more your will like them
    • think about how you feel about a new kid in class
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CENTRAL ROUTE OF PERSUASION
Definition
  • When a campaign or speaker focuses on product/facts/etc.
    • If a Nike commercial just focuses the good qualities of the shoe 
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PERIPHERAL ROUTE OF PERSUASION
Definition
  • When a presenter uses good looking people, jokes, special effects, etc. to change the way you think
    • ex: Nikon using Ashton Kutcher
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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
Definition
  • Occurs when a person has two opposing view points in their mind
    • you will change behavior to match one view point
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FOOT-IN-THE-DOOR
Definition
  • ask a small favor first and when they agree you ask for a larger
    • ex: ask a friend for $5, they say then you ask for $20
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DOOR-IN-THE-FACE
Definition
  • Ask for large favor first, when rejected ask for a small favor
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NORMS OF RECIPROCITY
Definition
  • when asked to complete a favor you expect them to complete one in return
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ATTRIBUTION THEORY
Definition
  • how a person determines a cause of an event
    • internal- personal qualities
    • external- social situations
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SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
Definition
  • your social schemas influence the way others will act and it will reinforce your schema (prophecy)
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FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
Definition
  • The need to make yourself look good when attributing causation
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COLLECTIVIST CULTURES
Definition
  • The group comes before the individual
    • lower divorce rate
    • low happiness
    • very loyal
    • family oriented
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INDIVIDUALISTIC CULTURE
Definition
  • you place yourself above others
    • higher correlation of depression
    • high divorce rate
    • less loyal
    • HAPPY!
    • CLAP ALONG IF YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPINESS IS TO YOU!
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FALSE CONSENSUS EFFECT
Definition
  • Overestimate how much people will agree with you
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SELF-SERVING BIAS
Definition
  • internally attribute successes
    • "I won our soccer game because we're AWESOME!" (awesome is an internal attribution)
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JUST WORLD BIAS
Definition
  • idea that bad things happen to bad people
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STEREOTYPE
Definition
  • social schemas you hold about before based on what group they belong to
    • used to save time
    • Ex: "all white girls like Starbucks"
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PREJUDICE
Definition
  • pre judging people based on what they look like
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ETHNOCENTRISM
Definition
  • belief that your own culture is superior is to others
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DISCRIMINATION
Definition
  • acting on prejudice/stereotypes
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OUT-GROUP HOMOGENEITY
Definition
  • Grouping all people who are not in your group together
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IN-GROUP BIAS
Definition
  • you believe your own group is better
    • ex: jocks may believe they are better than others
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SUPERORDINATE GOALS
Definition
  • a goal where adverse groups work together to overcome hostilities
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FUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
Definition
  • higher fustration = more aggression
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BYSTANDER EFFECT
Definition
  • when in a large group you are less likely to help
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DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBLITY
Definition
  • when working in a group you feel less responsible 
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PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE
Definition
  • when you believe something is wrong but because no one else in the group recognizes it you say nothing
    • ex: you think you smell something on fire but, you don't say anything because no one else says anything
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ATTRACTION RESEARCH
Definition
  • more attrative a person the more you trust them
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SOCIAL FACILITATION
Definition
  • people perform tasks better in front of an audience
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SOCIAL IMPAIRMENT
Definition
  • People perform worse in front of an audience
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CONFORMITY
Definition
  • when a person changes to fit social norms
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OBEDIENCE
Definition
  • to listen to authority figures
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GROUP NORMS
Definition
  • Behaviors that are expected of people who depend on each other
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SOCIAL LOAFING
Definition
  • you feel less responsible and do not fulfill duties b/c you believe someone else will pick up the slack
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GROUP POLARIZATION
Definition
  • in a group people are drawn to those that have the strongest attitudes or opinions
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GROUPTHINK
Definition
  • group agrees to one idea just to save time
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DEINDIVIDUATION
Definition
  • In a large group you are less like yourself
    • more likely to do something you otherwise would not have done
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Solomon Asch
Definition
  • Studied conformity in groups & cognitive dissonance
    • "line length" experiment 
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STANLEY MILGRIM
Definition
  • studied obedience
  • "Shock therapy"- where people continually shocked "fake" participants until doctor said to stop
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