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13 Cards in this Set
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Bystander Effect
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when people think someone else will do something,
pass the resposibility to someone else -kitty Genovese |
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Groupthink
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a group that shares such a stong notivatin to achieve consensus that they lose ability to critically evaluate alternative points of view
-leads to poor decisions |
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Obedience
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a change in behavior in response to the commands of others
ex-Milgram studies |
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Diffusin of responsiblity
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People went futher in the experiment when the responsibility was not on them
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Conformity
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a change in behavior or attitudes brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standars of other people
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Social Influence
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the situation is more powerful than you are (believes, habits, morals)
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Congitive Dissonance
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a person holds two contradictory attitudes or thoughts
-paticipants will reduce dissonance by adopting more positive attitudes toward the task |
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Social Cognition
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the way people understand and make sense of others and themselfs
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Attribution Theory
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explain how we decide, what the specific causes of that person's behavior
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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tend to exaggerate the importance of personality charachteristics, minimizing the influence of the environment
-precalent in western cultures |
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Self-Serving Bias
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attribute success to personal factors, failure to factors outside oneself
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Attitude Development
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Nature of Prejudice
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obervational learning
-usually negative -reduce it by- education, being around a more diverse crowd |
