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Psychology Eighth Edition by David G. Myers

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show the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another  
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show how we explain someones behavior: either to their situation or the person’s disposition.  
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show when observing others, overestimating influence of a personality and underestimating influence of situations.  
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show the explanation of individual behavior as a result caused by internal characteristics that reside within the individual, as opposed to outside (situational) influences that stem from the environment or culture in which that individual is found.  
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show actors tend to attribute the causes of their behavior to stimuli inherent in the situation, while observers tend to attribute behavior to stable dispositions of the actor  
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show people attribute their successes to internal or personal factors but attribute their failures to situational factors beyond their control.  
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show people develop their attitudes by observing their behaviour and concluding what attitudes must have caused them.  
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show tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a large request by first setting them up by having that person agree to a modest request.  
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Cognitive Dissonance   show
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Reframing   show
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show prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.  
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Confirmation Bias   show
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show girl got raped, blame that she was wearing a mini skirt and walking on the wrong side of town.  
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Conformity   show
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show nonconscious mimicry of the postures, mannerisms, facial expressions, and other behaviors of one's interaction partners, such that one's behavior passively and unintentionally changes to match that of others in one's current social environment.  
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Group Pressure   show
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Solomon Asch   show
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show influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.  
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Informational Social Influence   show
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Stanley Milgram   show
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Social Facilitation   show
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show the tendency for people in a group to exert toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.  
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Deindividuation   show
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Phillip Zimbardo   show
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show the enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.  
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Groupthink   show
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Minority Influence   show
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show an unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predispositions to discriminatory action.  
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Stereotype   show
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Discrimination   show
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show us-people with whom one shares a common identity.  
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Scapegoat Theory   show
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show any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.  
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show the principle that frustration-the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal-creates anger, which can generate aggression.  
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Conflict   show
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show a situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior.  
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Cooperation V. Competition (The Prisoner's Dilema)   show
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Mere Exposure Effect   show
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show Similarity, Proximity, Familiarity  
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show suggests why people become attracted to their partner. It claims that people are more likely to form long standing relationships with those who are equally physically attractive as they are.  
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show an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship.  
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show the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are interwined.  
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Altruism   show
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show the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.  
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Darley and Latane Experiment   show
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Diffusion of Responsibility   show
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show an expectation that people will help those dependent upon them.  
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Reciprocity Norm   show
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Social-Responsibility Norm   show
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show superordinate goals (goals so large that it requires more than one group to achieve the goal) reduced conflict significantly more effectively than other strategies (e.g., communication, contact).  
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show shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation.  
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show initiatives in tension-reduction-a strategy designed to decrease international tensions.  
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