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42 Cards in this Set
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Orientations that locate objects of thought on dimensions of judgment.
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Attitudes
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Inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others’ behavior, and their own behavior.
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Attributions
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A paradoxical social phenomenon in which people are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone.
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Bystander effect
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The medium through which a message is sent.
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Channel
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Transitions in youngsters’ patterns of thinking, including reasoning, remembering, and problem solving.
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Cognitive development
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Putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one’s identity in terms of the groups one belongs to.
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Collectivism
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An intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise.
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Commitment
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Warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one’s own.
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Companionate love
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The tendency for people to yield to real or imagined social pressure.
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Conformity
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The tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way.
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Defensive attribution
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Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group.
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Discrimination
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Ascribing the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints.
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External attributions
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Getting people to agree to a small request to increase the chances that they will agree to a larger request later.
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Foot-in-the-door technique
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Observers’ bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others’ behavior.
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Fundamental attribution error
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Two or more individuals who interact and are interdependent.
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Group
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The strength of the liking relationships linking group members to each other and to the group itself.
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Group cohesiveness
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A phenomenon that occurs when group discussion strengthens a group’s dominant point of view and produces a shift toward a more extreme decision in that direction.
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Group polarization
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A process in which members of a cohesive group emphasize concurrence at the expense of critical thinking in arriving at a decision.
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Groupthink
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A misperception that occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen.
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Illusory correlation
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Putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships.
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Individualism
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The group that people belong to and identify with.
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Ingroup
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Ascribing the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings.
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Internal attributions
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Positive feelings toward another.
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Interpersonal attraction
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Warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship.
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Intimacy
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Getting someone to commit to an attractive proposition before revealing the hidden costs.
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Lowball technique
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The idea that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners.
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Matching hypothesis
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The information transmitted by a source.
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Message
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A form of compliance that occurs when people follow direct commands, usually from someone in a position of authority.
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Obedience
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People who are not part of the ingroup.
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Outgroup
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A complete absorption in another that includes tender sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion.
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Passionate love
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The process of forming impressions of others.
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Person perception
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A negative attitude held toward members of a group.
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Prejudice
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The person to whom a message is sent.
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Receiver
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Liking those who show that they like you.
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Reciprocity
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The rule that people should pay back in kind what they receive from others.
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Reciprocity norm
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The tendency to attribute one’s successes to personal factors and one’s failures to situational factors.
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Self-serving bias
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A reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups as compared to when they work by themselves.
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Social loafing
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The branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others.
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Social psychology
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Widely shared expectations about how people in certain positions are supposed to behave.
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Social roles
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Organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people.
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Social schemas
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The person who sends a communication.
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Source
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Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group.
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Stereotypes
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