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| What does social psychology consist of? |
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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? |
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| What is the Fundamental Attribution Theory? |
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| 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? |
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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? |
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| What is the path in which people are influenced by incidental cues such as a speakers attractiveness called? |
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| Peripheral Route Persuasion |
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| What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon? |
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| 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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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| What is it when somes goes along with the groups decision in order to gain it's approval? |
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| Normative social influence |
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| What is Informational Social Influence? |
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Accepting others' opinions about reality, especially in conditions of uncertainty
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| Who discovered how obedient people are? |
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| 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? |
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| The tendency to perform well learned tasks better in front of others than when alone. |
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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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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? |
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| 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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| 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? |
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| 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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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? |
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| What do we call the power of one or two individuals to sway the majority? |
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| 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 |
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| An unjustified behavior toward an individual or members of a different racial or ethnic group. |
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"US" - groups of which we are members
We tend to favor our own groups. |
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| "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? |
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What is the Scapegoat Theory?
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| 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? |
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| What is any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy called? |
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| Genetic, neural and biochemical influences |
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| What is the mere exposure effect? |
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| 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? |
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| What is the bystander effect? |
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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| What is the expectation that people will help those dependent upon them? |
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| Social-Responsibility Norm |
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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| Graduated and Reciprocated Inititatives in Tension Reduction - a strategy designed to decrease international tensions. |
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