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425 terms for the psychology AP exam
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Psychology
11th Grade
04/29/2013

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Attribution Theory
Definition
tendency to give explanations for someone’s behavior, often by crediting situation or person’s disposition
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Fundamental Attribution Theory
Definition
tendency to overestimate the impact of person’s disposition and underestimate impact of situation
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Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon
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tendency to apply w/ larger requests after responding to a smaller request
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Zimbardo
Definition
Stanford Prison Experiment/Lucifer Effect – Role Playing: People take on the role of what they feel are proper for the situation
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Cognitive Dissonance
Definition
people change their behavior to avoid looking bad, ie  person is against gay rights then becomes gay, he will change attitude to gay rights activist
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Asch
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conformity – tendency to go along with the views and actions of others, even if you know they are wrong – line test
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Milgram
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obedience – people tend to obey authority figures; 60% of participants thought they delivered the max possible level of shock
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Social Facilitation
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improved performance in presence of others; easy tasks get easier as hard tasks get harder
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Social Loafing
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in the presence of others, people tend to do less, partly because they believe others will do it
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Deindividualization
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loss of self-awareness and self-restraint, typically in a sense of anomie (mob situation)
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Group Polarization
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if a group is like-minded, discussion strengthens prevailing options and attitudes
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Groupthink
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a mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision- making group overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives
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Just-World Phenomenon
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tendency of people to believe that the world is just and people get what they deserve and deserve what they get
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