AP Psych Ch 18 Vocab Test
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| A. the enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.B. line experiment. Participants agreed with the group even when they saw the answer was blatenly incorrect. C. girl got raped, blame that she was wearing a mini skirt and walking on the wrong side of town.D. an expectation that people will help those dependent upon them. E. a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.F. when observing others, overestimating influence of a personality and underestimating influence of situations.G. adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. H. an expectation that people will help those dependent upon them.I. Similarity, Proximity, FamiliarityJ. influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.K. an expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them.L. the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. M. 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.N. a situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior.O. a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas. P. 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.Q. 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. R. measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. S. social phenomenon which tends to occur in groups of people above a certain critical size when responsibility is not explicitly assigned.T. 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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