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PSY 150 Chapter 10

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Actor/Observer Bias   Our tendency to make the fundamental attribution error when judging others, while being less likely to do so when making attributions about ourselves.      
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Altruism   Helping another without being motivated by self-gain.   Helping Behavior    
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Attribution   The act of assigning cause to behavior.      
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Aversive Racism   A proposed form of subtle racism in which European Americans feel aversive emotions around African Americans, which may lead them to discriminate against African Americans.      
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Bystander Effect   The idea that the more witnesses there are to an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to offer help.      
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Central Route of Persuasion   A style of thinking in which the person carefully and critically evaluates persuasive arguments and generates counterarguments.   This route of persuasion requires motivation and available cognitive resources.   Facts & Figures  
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Cognitive Consistency   The idea that we strive to have attitudes and behaviors that do not contradict one another.      
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Cohesiveness   The degree to which members of a group value their group membership; cohesive groups are tight-knit groups      
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Collectivistic Culture   A culture, like many Asian cultures, in which group accomplishments are valued over individual accomplishments.      
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Compliance   Yielding to a simple request.      
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Conformity   Behaving in accordance with group norms.      
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Contact Hypothesis   The theory that contact between groups in an effective means of reducing prejudice between them.      
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Deindividuation   A state in which a person's behavior becomes controlled more by external norms than by the person's own internal values and morals.      
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Destructive Obedience   Obedience to immoral, unethical demands to cause harm to others.      
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Diffusion of Responsibility   The idea that responsibility for taking action is diffused across all the people witnessing an event.      
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Discrimination   The behavioral expression of a prejudice.      
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Dissonance Theory   A theory that predicts that we will be motivated to change our attitudes and/or behaviors to the extent that they cause us to feel dissonance      
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Dissonance   An uncomfortable physical state.      
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Door-in-the-Face Compliance   Increasing compliance by first asking people to give in to a very large request and then, after they refuse, asking them to give in to a smaller request.      
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Foot-in-the Door Compliance   Increasing compliance by first asking people to give in to a small request, which then paves the way for compliance with a second, larger request.      
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Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis   The idea that frustration causes aggressive behavior.      
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Fundamental Attribution Error   Our tendency to overuse trait information when making attributions about others.      
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Groupthink   A situation in which a group fixates on one decision and members blindly assume that it is the correct decision.      
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Hostile Aggression   Aggression that is meant to cause harm to others      
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Impression Formation   The way that we understand and make judgments about others.      
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In-Group Bias   Our tendency to favor people who belong to the same groups that we do.      
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Individualistic Culture   A culture, like many Western cultures, in which individual accomplishments are valued over group accomplishments.      
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Informational Conformity   Conformity that occurs when conformity pressures actually persuade group members to adopt new beliefs and/or attitudes.      
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Instrumental Aggression   Aggression that is used to facilitate the attainment of a goal.      
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Low-Balling   Increasing compliance by first getting the person to agree to a deal and then changing the terms of the deal to be more favorable to yourself.      
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Matching Hypothesis   The theory that we are attracted to people whose level of physical attractiveness is similar to our own.      
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Normative Conformity   Conformity that occurs when group members change their behavior to meet group norms but are not persuaded to change their beliefs and attitudes.      
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Obedience   Yielding to a demand.      
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Out-Group   A group that is distinct from one's own and so usually an object of more hostility or dislike than one's group.      
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias   Our tendency to see out-group members as being pretty much all alike.      
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Peripheral Route of Persuasion   A style of thinking in which the person does not carefully and critically evaluate persuasive arguments or generate counterarguments   This route ensues when one lacks motivation and/or available cognitive resources.    
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Persuasion   A type of social influence in which someone tries to change our attitudes.      
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Pluralistic Ignorance   The idea that we use the behavior of others to help us determine whether a situation is an emergency requiring our help; if no one else is helping, we may conclude that help isn't needed.      
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Prejudice   A largely negative stereotype that is unfairly applied to all members of a group regardless of their individual characteristics.      
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Prosocial Behavior   Behavior that helps others      
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Proximity   Physical Closeness      
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Psychological Distance   The degree to which one can disassociate oneself from the consequences of his/her actions.      
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Realistic-Conflict Theory   The theory that prejudice stems from competition for scarce resources.      
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Reciprocity   A strong norm that states that we should treat others as they treat us.      
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Scapegoat   An out-group that is blamed for many of society's problems.      
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Self-Serving Bias   Our tendency to make attributions that preserve our own self-esteem - for example, making trait attributions for our success and situational attributions for our failures.      
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Situational Attribution   An attribution that assigns the cause of a behavior to some characteristic of the situation or environment in which the behavior occurs.      
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Slippery Slope   The use of foot-in-the-door compliance in an obedience situation to get people to obey increasing demands.      
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Social Cognition   The area of social psychology that deals with the ways in which we think about other people and ourselves.      
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Social Facilitation   Performing better on a task in the presence of others than you would if you were alone.      
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Social Loafing   When group members exert less effort on a group task than they would if they were performing the task alone.      
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Social Psychology   The branch of psychology that studies how we think and behave in social situations.      
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Stereotype   A schema for a particular group of people.      
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Stereotype Threat   A phenomenon in which fears of being discriminated against elicit stereotype-conforming behaviors.      
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Superordinate Goal   A goal that is shared by different groups.      
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That's-not-all   Increasing compliance by sweetening the deal with additional incentives.      
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Trait Attribution   An attribution that assigns the cause of a behavior to the traits and characteristics of the person being judged.      
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Attitude   An evaluative belief that we hold about something.      
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Norm   Unwritten rule or expectation for how group members should behave.      
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