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Terms from week 10

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Social Psychology   The study of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others  
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Affiliation Motivation   The need to belong; motivation to be accepted by others  
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Bystander effect   The assumption that someone else is going to help/act in a situation  
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Diffusion of responsibility   The more people in a situation, the less pressure someone feels for acting/taking responsibility  
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Evaluation apprehension/audience inhibition   Ambiguity in the situation causes worry that other people will judge you  
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Pluralistic ignorance   Believing other people know something you don't  
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Conformity   The altering of one's opinions or behaviors to match those of others or social norms  
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Social norms   Generally accepted rules of behavior in a society  
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Descriptive social norms   What people actually think, feel, or do  
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Injunctive/prescriptive social norms   What people should think, feel, or do  
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Informational influence   Adopting the group consensus/conforming because it feel 'correct'  
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Normative influence   Adopting the group consensus/conforming because we want to fit in with the group/show that we belong  
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Groupthink   When group decision making is impaired because of the desire to reach or maintain consensus  
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Compliance   A change in behavior due to a direct request that is NOT from an authority figure  
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Obedience   A change in behavior due to a direct request from an authority figure  
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Asch's conformity experiment   A group of plants said the clearly wrong answer to test if the subject would conform to the group answer despite knowing it was wrong  
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Milgram's obedience experiment   Perceived doctor ordered subject to administer shocks to see how far the subject would go to be obedient while "hurting" and innocent person  
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Attribution   Judgements about the cause of a person's behavior  
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Dispositional attributions   Explanations about behavior that refer to internal characteristics (traits)  
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Situational attributions   Explanations about behavior that refer to external events  
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Correspondence bias   Tendency for people to overemphasize dispositional attributes (character traits) even when situational attributes clearly explain the behavior  
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Actor-observer bias   Emphasizing dispositional attributes (traits) when explaining other's behavior but emphasizing situational attributes when explaining your own behavior  
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Self-serving bias   Attributing success to dispositional factors (traits) and failure to situational factors; more likely to take responsibility for good and blame situation for bad  
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Stereotype   Cognitive schema for identifying social groups; easy information processing on people based on their membership to stereotypes; overgeneralization  
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Prejudice   Negative judgments and attitudes toward someone based on social membership; emotional bias  
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Discrimination   Unjust treatment of people based on social membership; behavioral bias  
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Steps to overcome biases   Detect (recognize biased thoughts), reflect (identify where the thought comes from), reject (replace thought with a better response)  
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Door-in-the-face technique   A persuasive technique in which compliance with a target request is preceded by a large, unreasonable request (ask for a million dollars, then ask for a more reasonable amount. More likely to say yes)  
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Foot-in-the-door technique   A persuasive technique in which compliance with a small request is followed by compliance with a larger request that might otherwise have been rejected  
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Low-balling technique   Making further requests of a person who has already committed to a course of action  
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Halo effect   Automatically making assumptions that attractive people have other good attributes to them  
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"Thin Slices of Behavior"   Making snap judgements and assumptions based on very limited amounts of information  
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fundamental attribution error   Tendency for people to overemphasize dispositional attributes (character traits) and underemphasize situational attributes when explaining behavior of other people  
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Social facilitation   Performing better at something because there are other people around  
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Social loafing   Performing worse/not attempting something because there are other people around  
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Deindividuation   Immersion of an individual within a group, leading to anonymity  
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