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| interested in how individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others |
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| process of forming impressions of others |
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| organized clusters of ideas about social events and people; allow us to process info and react quickly |
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| widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of membership in a group |
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| negative attitude towards members of a group |
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| behaving differently towards members of a certain group |
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| prejudice; discrimination |
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| _____ = negative thoughts; ______ = actions |
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| inferences that people draw about the causes of events and behavior |
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| explanations based on internal personal dispositions |
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| temporary, able to change |
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| permanent, unable to change |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| tendency to make internal attributions when explaining other people's behavior |
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| tendency to attribute your successes to internal causes and failures to external causes |
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| occurs when people yield to real or imagined social pressure |
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| people were given obviously wrong answer to measure conformity to group on about 37% of trials |
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| unwritten but understood rules of a culture about how to act in that society; learned by observation, operant conditioning |
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| occurs when people follow direct commands, usually from someone in position of authority |
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| did a famous study on obedience; 65% of people went all the way to 450 volts; no one stopped before 300 volts; indicates that regular people will obey authority even when asked to harm someone else |
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| people less likely to provide help when in groups than when alone |
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| informational influence theory |
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| use reactions of others to judge seriousness of situation; if others take no action, conclude no emergency exists |
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| diffusion of responsibility theory |
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| in presence of other, individuals feel less personal responsibility to do something; more anonymous people feel, less likely they will help; as number of people goes up, chances of helping goes down |
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| two or more individuals who interact and are independent |
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| reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups as compared to when they work alone; due, in part, to diffusion of responsibility |
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| group is large, no way to judge individual contributions, other group members known to be competent and conscientious |
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| social loafing is worse if: |
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