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Unit 12
Social Psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social psychology | The branch of psychology that studies the effect of social variables on individual behavior, attitudes, perceptions, and motives; also studies group and intergroup phenomena. |
| Social role | A socially defined pattern of behavior that is expected of a person who is functioning in a given setting or group. |
| Social norms | The expectation a group has for its members regarding acceptable and appropriate attitudes and behaviors. |
| Conformity | The tendency for people to adopt the behaviors, attitudes, and values of other members of a reference group. |
| Normative influence | Group effects that arise from an individuals' desire to be liked, accepted, and approved of by others. |
| Groupthink | The tendency of a decision making group to filter undesirable input so that a consensus may be reached, especially if it is in line with the leader's viewpoint. |
| Attribution theory | A social- cognitive approach to describing the ways the social perceivers use information to generate casual explanations. |
| Self-serving bias | A class of attributional biases in which people tend to take credit for their successes and deny responsibilities for their failures. |
| Self-fulfilling prophecy | A prediction made about some future behavior or even that modifies interactions so as to produce what is expected. |
| Attitude | The learned, relatively stable tendency to respond to people, concepts, and events in an evaluative way. |
| Cognitive dissonance | The theory that the tension-producing effects of incongruous cognition's motivate individuals to reduce tension. |
| Reciprocity norm | Expectation that favors will be returned---if someone does something for another person, that person should do something in return. |
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