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21 Cards in this Set
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Social psychology |
The scientific study of how a person's thoughts, felings, and behavior influence and are influenced by social grous; |
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Conformity |
Changing ones own behavior to match that of other people. |
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The Asch experiment |
The line experiment on conformity |
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Compliance |
People asking one to change |
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Groupthink |
Kind of thinking that occurs when people place more importance on maintaining group cohesiveness and assessing the facts of the problem with which group is concerned |
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Social Faciliation |
The tendency for the presence of other people to have a positive impact on the performance of an easy test |
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Social Impairment |
The tendency for the presence of other people to have a negative impact on the performance of a difficult task |
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Social Loafing |
The tendency for people to put less effort into a simple task when working with others on that test |
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Stanley Migrams research |
Learner and teacher |
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Attitudes |
a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards certain idea person object or situation. Affective behavior cognitive |
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Attitude Formation |
A number of different influences with only one thing in common the are forms of learning Direct contact. Brussel sprouts |
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Cognitive dissonance |
Sense of discomfort or stress that occurs when a persons behavior does not correspond to that persons attitude |
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Impression formation |
The forming of the first knowledge that a person has concerning another person |
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Attributions |
List of explaining one's own behavior in the behavior of others |
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Situational cause |
Cause of behavior attributed to external factors such as delays the actions of others or some other aspects of the situation |
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Dispositional cause |
Cause of behavior attributed to internal factors such as personality or character |
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Fundamental attribution error |
The tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors in determining behavior while underestimating situational factors |
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Prejudice |
Negative attitude held by a person about the members of particular social group |
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Discrimination |
Treating people differently because of prejudice toward the social group to which they belong |
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Altruism |
Prosocial behavior that is done with no expectation of reward and may involve the risk of harm to himself |
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Diffusion of responsibility |
Occurs when a person fails to take responsibility for actions or for inaction because of the presence of other people who are seen to share the responsibility |
