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| Social psychology is concerned with social behavior, including the ways people influence each other's attitudes and behavior, the imapact that individuals have on one another, the impact that social groups have on individual group members, the impact that individual group members have upon the social group, and the impact that social groups have on other social groups. |
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| Who is thought to have the first study of social psychology |
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| What did Norman Triplett study? |
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| People perform better on familiar tasks when in the presence of others than when alone. |
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| the perspective that people are aware of the social roles they are expected to fill, and much of their observable behavior can be attributed to adopting those roles. |
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| What are consistency theories? |
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| people prefer consistency, and will change or resist changing attitudes based upon this preference |
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