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43 Cards in this Set
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Social psychology |
How people's thoughts feelings and behaviors are influenced by other people and by social and physical environment |
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Sense of self |
Sense of identity who you are in context of other people |
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Evolutionary psychology |
Some psychological processes and behavior patterns over 100s and 1000s of years |
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Social cognition |
How we form impressions of other people |
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Social influence |
The effect of situational factors and other people of an individual behavior |
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Person perception |
Form judgments and conclusions about characteristics of other people |
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Hallo effect |
Initial info creates "hall" stopping new info that would change initial perception |
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Social categorization |
Classifying people and common traits |
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Explicit cognition |
Deliberate perceptions, judgements |
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Implicit cognition |
Automatic, unconscious perceptions or judgments |
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Implicit personality theory |
Network of assumptions and beliefs about the relationships among various types of people, traits and behaviors |
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Attribution |
The process of inferring the cause of someone's behaviors |
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Fundamental attribution error |
Tendency to attribute behaviors of others to internal characteristics, ignoring the role of external factors |
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Actor observer bias |
Explain with external behavior not internal (usually to self) blaming the victim |
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Hindsight bias |
Tendency to overestimate ones ability to forsea outcome in heindsight |
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Just world hypothesis |
Assumption you get what's coming for you |
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Self serving bias |
Success on yourself, failure on external outcomes |
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Self effacing (modesty) bias |
Blame yourself for your failures, success on external factors |
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Attitude |
Learned tendency to evaluate object person or issue in a particular way. Positive, negative, ambivalent. Three components: Cognitive, affective, behavioral |
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Cognitive component |
Thoughts about given object or topic |
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Affective component |
Emotional component |
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Behavioral component |
Attitudes reflected in actions |
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Cognitive dissonance |
Unpleasant statement of psychological tension or arousal (dissonance) occurs when 2 thoughts are inconsistent |
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Prejudice |
Negative attitude toward people in specific social groups |
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Stereotype threat |
Playing into stereotypes about yourself and decompensating creating exceptions to stereotypes to not confuse them |
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In group |
Social group that does belong |
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Out group |
Social group that doesn't belong |
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Out group homogeneity effect |
Tendency to see members of outgroups as very similar to one another |
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In group bias |
Tendency to judge the behavior of ingroup members favorably and out group members unfavorably |
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Implicit attitudes |
Automatic evaluations of bias towards certain groups of people |
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Jigsaw classroom technique |
Each student becomes expert on one part of project, brought together. Higher self esteem nicer to different ethnic groups |
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Conformity |
Adjusting your opinions, judgements or behaviors so they match social norm |
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Aschs experiment |
Which line is longer, experiment on conformity. People less likely to stray from norm/ speak out if nobody else has |
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Normative social influence |
Behavior that's motivated by being correct |
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Obedience |
The performance of behavior in response to direct command |
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Milgram experiment |
Electric chair |
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Critophe Nick |
2010 game of death contemporary milgrams experiment |
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Altruism |
Helping others with no expectation of reward |
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Prosocial behaviors |
Any behavior that helps others |
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Three stages before helping |
Notice emergency Interpret as situation that requires help Decide if it's their responsibility |
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Bystander effect |
The more people there are the less likely anyone will take action, so no one does anything |
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Diffusion of responsibility |
The more people the less likely anyone will take action |
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Biochemical influences |
Testosterone, alcohol |
