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23 Cards in this Set
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Social psychology
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The study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in social situations
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social perception
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The processes by which we come to know and evaluate other persons
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Attribution theory
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A set of theories that describe how people explain the causes of behavior
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Fundamental attribution error
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A tendency to overestimate the impact of personal causes of behavior and to overlook the role of situations
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Primacy effect
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The tendency for impressions of others to be heavily influenced by information appearing early in an interaction.
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mere-exposure effect
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The attraction to a stimulus that results from increased exposure to it
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Conformity
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A tendency to alter one's opinion or behavior in ways that are consisten with group norms
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Informational influence
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Conformity motivated by the belief that others are correct
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normative influence
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Conformity motivated by a fear of social rejection
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Attitude
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A positive, negative, or mixed reaction to any person, object, or idea
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Central route to persuasion
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A process in which people think carefully about a message and are influenced by its arguments
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Peripheral route to persuasion
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A process in which people do not think carefully about a message and are influenced by superficial cues
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Cognitive dissonance
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An unpleasant psychological state often aroused when people behave in ways that are discrepant with their attitudes
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Social facilitation
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The tendency for the presence of others to enhance performance on simple tasks and impair performance on complex tasks
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Social Loafing
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The tendency for people to exert less effort in group tasks for which individual contributions are pooled
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Group think
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A group decision making style by which members convince themselves that they are correct
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aggression
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Behavior intended to inflict harm on someone who is motivated to avoid it
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Frustration-Aggression hypothesis
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The theory that frustration causes aggression
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Deindividuation
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A loss of individuality often experienced in a group, that results in a breakdown of internal restraints against deviant behavior
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Altruism
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Helping behavior that is motivated primarily by a desire to benefit others, not oneself
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Empathy-Altruism hypothesis
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The proposition that an empathetic response to a person in need produces an altruistic helping
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bystander effect
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the finding that the presence of others inhibits helping in an emergency
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Diffusion of responsibility
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In groups, a tendency for bystanders to assume that someone else will help
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