Social Psychology

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social psychology

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the study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

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attribution theory

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suggests how we explain someones behavior by crediting either the situation or the persons disposition

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fundamentalist attribution error

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the tendency for observers, when observing anothers behavior, to underestimate the impact of a personal disposition

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attitude

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feelings, often based on our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events

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foot-in-door-phenomenon

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the tendency for people who have fist agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request

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cognitive disonence theory

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the idea that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thouhts are inconsitant

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conformity

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adjusting one's behavioror thinking to coincide with a group standard

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normative social influence

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influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or avoid disproval

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informational social influence

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influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others opinions about reality

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dispositional attribution

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believes people act badly becuase they are

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situational attribution

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people act badly becuase something must have happened

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chameleon act

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we naturally mime people

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mood linkage

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the linkage of emotion

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solomon asch

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conformity, line tests

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milgram

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tested obedience, electric shock experiment

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blame the victim dynamic

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caused by anger and self blame by discrimination

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social identities

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we define ourselves in terms of our grous

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scapegoat theory

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prejeduce offers outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

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just-word phenomenom

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the tendency to believe that people get what they deserve

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hindsight bias

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people desered or asked for it, they could have prevented it

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frustration-agression principal

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the blocking of an attempt to achieve a goal creates anger than generates aggression

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aggressive replacement program

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control and reasoning

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social scripts

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mental tapes of how to act in society

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catharsis hypothesis

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the idea that we feel better by blowing off steam

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conflict

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percieved incompatability of actions, goals, or ideas

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social trap

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a situation in wich the conflicting parties become cause in mutually destructive begacior, avoided by regulations, communications, and awareness

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mirror-image perception

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"they" are evil

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mere exposure effect

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repeated exposure to novel stimuli

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reward theory of attraction

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we love those who love us

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equity

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a condition in which poeple revieve what they give in a relationship

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self-disclosure

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revealing intimate aspects of oneself to another

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altruism

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unselfish regard for the welfare of others

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social exchange theory

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our social behvior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs

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recipricocy norm

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the expectation that people will help those that help them

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social-responsibility norm

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people will help those dependant on them

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superordinate goals

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shared goals that override differneces among people

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GRIT

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used to decrese international tensions, graduated and recipricated initiatives in tension reduction

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social facilitation

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do better when good and worse when bad in front of crowd

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deindividualization

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loss of selfawareness and restraint that occurs in group situations that forster arousal adnd annymity

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group polarization

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the enhancement of a groups prevailing inclination through discussion within the group

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group think

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the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives

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social control

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power of the situation

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minority influence

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the ability for the individual to sway the majority.