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chapter 11 social p
Chapter 11 social psychology
Question | Answer |
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The "RULES"/expectations, appropriate behavior in social situations | Social norms |
Mental process of infeering the causes of peoples behavior, including ones own. explanation made for a particular behavior | Attribution |
Attribute succesful outcome to ones own behavior to internal causes and unsuccessful outcomes to extarnal cuases | Self-serving Bias |
Branch of psyc that studies how a persons thoughts, feelins and behaviors are influenced by the presence of other people and by the social and physical environment | social psychology |
network of assumptions or beliefs about the relationship among various types of people, traits and behaviors | implicit personality theory |
blame an innocent victim of mistfortune for somehow having caused the problem | blaming the victim |
The assumption that the world is fair and that people get what they deserve | Just world hypothesis |
The tendency to overestimate ones ability to have foreseen or predicted an outcome of a tragic event | Hindsight bias |
Mental process we use to form judgements and draw conclusions about characteristics and motives of others | Personal percepcion |
tendency to attribute the behavior of others to internal, personal characterisitcs while ignoring or underestimating the effects of external situational factors; an attributional bias that is common in individualistic cultures | Fundamental attribution error |
psychologist who is best known for his "Robbers Cave" experiments to study prejudice, conflict resolution and group processes | Muzafer Sherif |
tendency to evaluate some object, person or issue in a particular way: such evaluations m/b positive negative or ambivalent | Attitude |
social group to which one belongs | ingroup |
unpleasant state of psychological tension or arousal that occurs when two thoughts or perceptions are inconsistent; typically results from awareness that attitude and behavior are in conflict | Cognotive dissonance |
social group to which one does not belong | out group |
psychologist known for his research on COGNOTIVE DISSONANCE and especially for the Stanford prison Expirement, demonstrated how situational factors can have an impact on human behavior | Zimbardo |
prejudice displayed behaviorally | discrimination |
teaching technique that stresses cooperative rather than competitive learning situations | Jigsaw classroom technique |
reflected in feelings that people have about a given event, object or topic | Affective component of an attitude |
social psychologist known for his controversial investigation of destructive obedience to an authority figure | Milgram |
adjusting your opinions, judgments and behavior so that it matches other people, the norms of a social group | Conformity |
psychologist who studied the bystander intervention in emergency situation | Bibb Lantane and John Darleuuy |
phenomenon in which the greater the number of people present the less likely each individual is to help someone in distress | Bystander effect |
phenomenon in which the presence of other people makes it less likely that any individual will help someone in distress bcuz the obligation to intervene is shared among all onlookers | Diffusion of responsibility |