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McCormick's Unit 9
AP Psych Unit 9: Social Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Psychology? | The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. |
| Attribution Theory | The theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes. |
| Attitudes | Attitudes are Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people, ideas, or objects that are based on a person's past experiences, shape his or her future behavior, and are evaluative in nature. |
| Central Route Persuasion | Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts |
| Peripheral Route Persuasion | Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's attractiveness (Men would be easily swayed by a curvy, bottom-heavy woman than another man) |
| Normative Social Influence | influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval |
| Informational Social Influence | influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality |
| Social Facilitation | Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others |
| Social Loafing | The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable. |
| Deindividuation | The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity. |
| Group Polarization | The enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group. |
| Groupthink | The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. |
| Culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. |
| Norm | Principles of right action, binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior. |
| Stereotype | A generalized belief about a group of people |
| Discrimination | Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group. |
| Ingroup Bias | the tendency to favor our own group |
| Scapegoat Theory | the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame |
| Just-World Phenomenon | the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get |
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