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26 Cards in this Set
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Attitudes
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The evaluation of objects, events, or ideas.
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Explicit Attitudes
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Attitudes that people can report.
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Implicit Attitudes
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Attitude that influence our feelings and behaviors at an unconscious level.
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Implicit Attitudes
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Attitudes that influence our feelings and behavior at an unconscious level.
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Cognitive Dissonance
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An uncomfortable mental state due to conflicts between attitudes or between attitude and behavior.
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Persuasion
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The active and conscious effort to change attitudes through the transmission of a message.
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Elaboration Likelihood Model
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A theory of how persuasive messages lead to attitude changes.
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Nonverbal Behavior
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The facial expressions, gestures, mannerisms, and movements by which one communicates with others.
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Attributions
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People's casual explanations for why events or actions occur.
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Personal Attributions
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Explanations that refer to internal characteristics, such as abilities, traits, moods, and effort.
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Situational Attributions
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Explanations that refer to external events, such as the weather, luck, accidents, or the actions of other people.
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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The tendency to overemphasize personal factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining behavior.
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Stereotypes
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Cognitive schemas that allow for easy, fast processing of information about people based on their memberships in certain groups.
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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People's tendency to behave in ways that confirm their own or others' expectations.
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Prejudice
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The unusually negative affective or attitudinal responses associated with stereotypes.
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Discrimination
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The inappropriate and unjustified treatment of people based solely on their group membership.
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Ingroup Favoritism
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The tendency for people to evaluate favorably and privilege members of the ingroup more than members of the outgroup.
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Social Loafing
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The tendency for people to work less hard in a group than when working alone.
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Deindividuation
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A phenomenon of low self-awareness, in which people lose their individuality and fail to attend to personal standards.
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Social Norms
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Expected standards of conduct, which influence behavior.
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Conformity
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The altering of one's opinions or behaviors to match those of others or to match social norms.
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Compliance
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The tendency to agree to do things requested by others.
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Agression
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Any behavior or action that involves the intention to harm someone else.
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Prosocial
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Tending to benefit others.
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Altruism
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The providing of help when it is needed, without any apparent reward for doing so.
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Bystander Intervention Effect
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The failure to offer help by those who observe someone in need.
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