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AP Psych Unit 9: Social Psychology

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Social Psychology?   The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.  
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Attribution Theory   The theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition  
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Fundamental Attribution Error   The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.  
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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.  
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Central Route Persuasion   Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts  
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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)  
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Normative Social Influence   influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval  
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Informational Social Influence   influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality  
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Social Facilitation   Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others  
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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.  
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Deindividuation   The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.  
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Group Polarization   The enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.  
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Groupthink   The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.  
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Culture   Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.  
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Norm   Principles of right action, binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior.  
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Stereotype   A generalized belief about a group of people  
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Discrimination   Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group.  
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Ingroup Bias   the tendency to favor our own group  
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Scapegoat Theory   the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame  
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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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