| Question | Answer |
| 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 |
