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Unit 12

Social Psychology

TermDefinition
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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