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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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Fundamental Attribution Error   show
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Dispositional Attribution Versus Situational Attribution   show
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Actor-Observer Bias   show
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Self-Serving Bias   show
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Self-Perception   show
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Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon   show
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show theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent. Ex. When our awareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing out attitudes.  
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show seeing a situation through a new outlook  
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy   show
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show a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.  
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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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Chameleon Effect   show
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Group Pressure   show
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show line experiment. Participants agreed with the group even when they saw the answer was blatenly incorrect.  
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Normative Social Influence   show
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show influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality.  
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show measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.  
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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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show 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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show form of social influence, which takes place when a majority is being influenced to accept the beliefs or behaviour of a minority.  
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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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show the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.  
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show any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.  
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Frustration-Aggression Principle   show
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show a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas.  
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Social Traps   show
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Cooperation V. Competition (The Prisoner's Dilema)   show
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show the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them.  
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Geographic Nearness   show
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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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Companionate Love   show
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Altruism   show
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Bystander Effect   show
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Darley and Latane Experiment   show
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show social phenomenon which tends to occur in groups of people above a certain critical size when responsibility is not explicitly assigned.  
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Social Exchange Theory   show
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Reciprocity Norm   show
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show an expectation that people will help those dependent upon them.  
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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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Superordinate Goals   show
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GRIT Strategy   show
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