Ch 13 Quiz

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what do social psychologists study?

Back 1

- social behavior and how individuals influence other people and are influenced by other people

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what is altruistic behavior?

Back 2

- accepting some cost or risk to help others

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What is the prisoner's dilemma?

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- a situation where people choose between a cooperative act and a competitive act that benefits themselves but hurts others

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social loafing

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- the tendency to "loaf" (or work less hard) when sharing work with other people

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what is social perception and cognition?

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-the processes we use to gather and remember info about others and to make inferences form that info

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what does attribution refer to?

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- the set of thought processes we use to assign causes to our own behavior and that of others

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internal attribution

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- explanation based on someone's individual characteristics, such as attitudes, personality traits, or abilities
- also called dispositional

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external attributions

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- explanations based on the situation , including events that presumably would influence almost anyone
- also called situational

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consensus information

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- how the person's behavior compares with other people's behavior
- ex. if someone behaves the same way you believe other people would in the same situation, then you make an external attribution.
- if someone's behavior seems unusual, you look fro an internal attribution pertaining to the person instead of the situation

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consistency information

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- how the person's behavior varies from one time to the next
- ex. if someone always seems friendly, you would make an internal attribution, but if someone's friendliness varies, you look for an external attribution such as an event that elicited and good or bad mood

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distinctiveness information

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- how the person's behavior varies from one situation to another
- ex if your friend is pleasant to everybody except one person, you assume that person has done something to irritate you friend (an external attribution)

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fundamental attribution error

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- to make attributions for people's behavior even when we see evidence for an external influence on behavior
- also called correspondence bias

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actor-observer effect

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- people are more likely to make internal attribution for other people's behaviors and more likely to make external attributions for their own

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self serving bias

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- attributions that we adopt to maximize our credit for our success and minimize our blame for our failure

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what is an attitude?

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- a like or dislike that influence our behavior towards someone or something

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cognitive dissonance

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- a state of unpleasant tension that people experience when they hold contradictory attitudes o when their behavior is inconsistent with their attitudes, especially if they are distressed about their inconsistency

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foot in the door technique

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-start with a modest request which the person accepts and then follow it with a larger request

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door in the face technique

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- someone follows an outrageous initial request with a more reasonable second one

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conformity

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-maintaining or changing one's behavior to match the behavior or expectations of others

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- he studied whether or not people would follow an authority figure's orders to do something that might hurt another person

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describe Milgram's study