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Unit 14
Social Psychology
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Psychology
11th Grade
03/30/2013

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What does social psychology consist of?
Definition

The study of how other people, groups and cultures shape perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors.

Looks at how social and situational factors can influence people in positive and negative ways.

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What theory attempts to account for why people behave the way they do?
Definition
Attribution Theory
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What is the Fundamental Attribution Theory?
Definition
Tendency to underestimate the impact of situational factors and overestimate the impact of dispostional factors when assessing why other people acted the way they did.
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How do attitudes develop?
Definition

They are learned predispositions to respond in a favorable or unfavorable way to specific objects, people or events.

May be a product of belonging to a particular culture.

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What is the path in which interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts called?
Definition
Central Route Persuasion
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What is the path in which people are influenced by incidental cues such as a speakers attractiveness called?
Definition
Peripheral Route Persuasion
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What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
Definition
The tendency for people who first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request, when people start small and build.
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Describe what a role is?
Definition
A set of expectations about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave.
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What is cognitive dissonance?
Definition
Changes in attitudes can be motivated by an inpleasant state of tension caused by a disparity between a person's beliefs or attitudes and his or her behavior
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What is the chameleon effect?
Definition
When people unconsciously mimick others' expressions, postures, voice tones, etc. we are natural mimics.
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What is it called when one adjusts one's behavior or thinking to coincide witha groups standards?
Definition
Conformity
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What is it when somes goes along with the groups decision in order to gain it's approval?
Definition
Normative social influence
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What is Informational Social Influence?
Definition

Accepting others' opinions about reality, especially in conditions of uncertainty

 

 

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Who discovered how obedient people are?
Definition
Experiments by Stanely Milgram revealed astonishing results about how much people comply with instructions regardless of what they were instructed to do.
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What is Social Facilitation?
Definition
The tendency to perform well learned tasks better in front of others than when alone.
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What is Social Loafing?
Definition

The tendency of a group member to assume the role of the slacker.

Result of feeling less pressure to put forth effort when engaged in projects where group evaluations are being made.

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What is deindividuation?
Definition

The tendency to lose some self-awareness inlarge groups, can result in unusual or uncharacteristic behavior because of group anonymity.

Antisocial or pro-social behavior can occur from normally well-behaved individuals.

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What is Group Polarization?
Definition
The tendency of like-minded people to become more firmly entrenched in their beliefs and more extreme than any of the individuals before interacting.
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What is Group Think?
Definition
The tendency for members of a group to preserve the harmony of the group by failing to raise objections or voice dissenting opinions, engaging in self-censorship.
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What does culture entail?

Definition
The behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions transmitted from one generation to the next within a group of people who share the same language and environment.
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What are norms?
Definition

Standards used to compare scores of test takers, established from the test results of the representative sample that initially took the test.

 

An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior.

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What do we call the buffer space we like to maintain around our bodies?
Definition
Personal space
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What do we call the power of one or two individuals to sway the majority?
Definition
Minority Influence
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What is prejudice?
Definition
An unjustified negative attitude an individual has for another, based solely on that person's membership in a different racial or ethnic group.
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What do we call a generalized belief about a group of people
Definition
stereotype
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What is discrimination?
Definition
An unjustified behavior toward an individual or members of a different racial or ethnic group.
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Who is the Ingroup?
Definition

"US" - groups of which we are members

We tend to favor our own groups.

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Who is the Out-Group?
Definition
"THEM"- groups to which we do not belong. we attribute more negative qualities to them
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What do we call the tencency to favor our own group?
Definition
INgroup bias
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What is the Scapegoat Theory?

 

Definition
The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone else to blame.
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What do we call the belief that people get what they deserve?
Definition
Just-world phenomenon
Term
What is any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy called?
Definition
Aggression
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What causes aggression?
Definition
Genetic, neural and biochemical influences
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What is the mere exposure effect?
Definition
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli, increases liking of them (i.e. advertisers and their products)
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What do we call the unseflish concern of one individual for the welfare of another?
Definition
Altruism
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What is the bystander effect?
Definition
The tendency of an observer to be less likely to give aid if other observers are present.
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What is the social exchange theory?
Definition
The theory that social behavior is geared towards maximizing rewards and minimizing costs in all interactions.
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What do we call the expectation that people will help not hurt those who have helped them?
Definition
Reciprocity Norm
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What is the expectation that people will help those dependent upon them?
Definition
Social-Responsibility Norm
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What is a social trap?
Definition
A situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutual destructive behavior.
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What is the Mirror-Image Perception?
Definition
Mutual views often held by conflicting people, as each sides itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side as evil and aggressive
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What is the Self-fulfilling Prophecy?
Definition
Theh tendency to let our preconceived expectations of others influence how we treat them and thus bring about the very behavior we expect to come true.
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What are goals that are shared by the members of two or more groups and requires collaborative effort of all to achieve?
Definition
Superordinate Goals
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What is GRIT?
Definition
Graduated and Reciprocated Inititatives in Tension Reduction - a strategy designed to decrease international tensions.
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