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Chapter 18
Social Psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Psychology | The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and related to one another. |
| Attribution Theory | The theory that we tend to give a casual explanation for someon's behavior, often by creating either the situation or the person's disposition. |
| Fundamental Attributional Error | The tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, often by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition. |
| Attitude | A belief and feeling that predisposes one to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events. |
| Foot-in-the-door-theory | The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request. |
| Cognitive Dissonance theory | The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent. For example, when our wareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes. |
| Conformity | Adjudsting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. |
| 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 | Improved performance of tasks in the presence of others; occurs with simple or well-learned tasks but not with tasks that are difficult or not yet mastered. |
| Social Loafing | The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than whne individually accountable. |
| Deindividuation | The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occuring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity. |
| Group Polarization | The enchancement of a group's prevailing attitude's through discussion within the group. |
| Groupthink | The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. |
| Self-fulfilling Prophecy | Occurs when one person belief about others leads on to act in ways that induce the others to appear to confirm the belief. |
| Prejudice | An unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. It generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action. |
| Stereotype | A generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people. |
| Ingroup | "Us" - people with whom shares a common identity. |
| Outgroup | "Them" - those perceived as different or apart from one's ingroup. |
| Ingroup Bias | The tendency to favor one's own group. |
| Scapegoat Theory | The theory that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame. |
| Just-World Phenomenon | The tendency of people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get. |
| Aggression | Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy. |
| Frustration-Aggression Principle | The principle that frustration-the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal-creates anger, which can generate aggresion. |
| Conflict | A perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas. |
| Social Trap | A situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior. |
| Mere Exposure Effect | The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them. |
| Passionate Love | An aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship. |
| Companionate Love | The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those whom our lives are intertwined. |
| Equity | A condition in which people who receive from a relationship in proportion to what the give to it. |
| Self-Disclosure | Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others. |
| Altruism | Unselfish regard for the welfare of others. |
| Bystander Effect | The tendency to for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present. |
| Social Exhange Theory | The theory that our social behaviro is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs. |
| Superordinate Goals | Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation. |
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