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Socail Psychology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2011

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CONFORMITY
Definition
A change in behavior or belief as a result of real or imagined group pressure.
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COMPLIANCE
Definition
A type of conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with an implied or explicit request while privately disagreeing.
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OBEDIENCE
Definition
Acting in accord with a direct order or command.
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ACCEPTANCE
Definition
Conformity that involves both acting and believing in accord with social pressure. 
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AUTOKINETIC 

PHENOMENON

Definition

Self (auto) motion (kinetic).

The apparent movement of a stationary point of light in the dark. 

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COHESIVENESS
Definition
A "we feeling"; the extent to which members of a group are bound together, such as by attraction for one another. 
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NORMATIVE INFLUENCE
Definition
Conformity based on a person's desire to fulfill others' expectations, often to gain acceptance. 
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INFORMATIONAL 

INFLUENCE

Definition
Conformity occurring when people accept evidence about reality provided by other people.  
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GROUP
Definition
Two or more people who, for longer than a few moments, interact with and influence one another and perceive one another as "us"
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CO-ACTORS
Definition
Co-participants working individually on a noncompetitive activity
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SOCIAL FACILITATION
Definition
(1) Original meaning: the tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better when others are present. (2) Current Meaning: the strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses in the presence of others. 
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EVALUATION COMPREHENSION
Definition
concern for how others are evaluating us.
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SOCIAL LOAFING
Definition
The tendency for people to exert less effort when they are pooling their efforts toward a common goal than when they are individually accountable. 
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FREE RIDERS
Definition
People who benefit from the group but give little in return.
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DEINDIVIDUATION
Definition
loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension; occurs in group situations that foster responsiveness to group norms, good or bad. 
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GROUP POLARIZATION
Definition
Group-produced enhancement of members' preexisting tendencies; a strengthening of the members' average tendency, not a split within the group.
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SOCIAL COMPARISON
Definition
evaluating one's opinions and abilities by comparing oneself with others. 
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PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE
Definition
a false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling, or how they are responding. 
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GROUPTHINK
Definition
"the mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive in-group that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action" -Irving Janis (1971) 
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LEADERSHIP
Definition
The process by which certain group members motivate and guide the group.
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TASK LEADERSHIP
Definition
Leadership that organizes work, sets standards, and focuses on goals.
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SOCIAL LEADERSHIP
Definition
Leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support. 
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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Definition
Leadership that, enabled by leader's vision and inspiration, exerts significant influence. 
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PREJUDICE
Definition
A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members
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STEREOTYPE
Definition
A belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate and resistant to new information.
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DISCRIMINATION
Definition
Unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members
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RACISM
Definition
(1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior towards people of a given race, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race. 
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SEXISM
Definition

(1) an individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior towards people of a given sex, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex.

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SOCIAL DOMINANCE ORIENTATION
Definition
A motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups.
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ETHNOCENTRIC
Definition
Believing in the superiority of ones own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain towards all other groups. 
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AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY
Definition
A personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status
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REALISTIC GROUP CONFLICT THEORY
Definition
The theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources. 
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SOCAIL IDENTITY
Definition
the "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "who i am?" that comes from our group memberships. 
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INGROUP
Definition
"us" - a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity. 
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OUTGROUP
Definition
"them"- a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup
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INGROUP BIAS
Definition
Tendency to favor one's own group
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TERROR MANAGEMENT
Definition
According to 'terror management theory,' people's self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices) when confronted with reminders of their morality. 
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OUTHROUP HOMOGENEITY EFFECT
Definition
Perception of outgrip members as more similar to one another than are in-group members. Thus "they are alike, we are diverse."
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OWN-RACE BIAS
Definition
tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race. 
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STIGMA CONSCIOUSNESS
Definition
A persons expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination
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GROUP-SERVING BIAS
Definition
Explaining away outgrip members' positive behaviors; also attributing negative behaviors to their dispositions (while excusing such behavior by one's own group.)
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JUST WORLD-PHENOMENON
Definition
The tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get. 
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SUBTYPING
Definition
Accommodating individuals who deviate from one's own stereotype by thinking of them as "exceptions to the rule"
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SUBGROUPING
Definition
accommodating individuals who deviate form one's own stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group. 
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STEREOTYPE THREAT
Definition
a disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. Unlike self-fulfilling prophecies that hammer one's reputation into one's self concept, stereotype threat situations have immediate effects. 
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