Psyo 1012 Chapter 14

Front 1

Social psychology

Back 1

Study of how living among others influence thought, feeling and behavior

Front 2

Attribution

Back 2

Inferences made about the causes of others people's behaviour

Dispositional (internal)

Situational (external)

Front 3

Fundamental attribution error

Back 3

When looking at other people's behaviour we are more likely to use external over internal

Front 4

Schemas

Back 4

Models about the social world

Front 5

Stereotypes

Back 5

Schemas of how people are likely to behave based on group membership

Front 6

Ingroup/outgroup bias

Back 6

Tendency to show positive feelings towards people who are in your groups and negative feelings towards those who arent

Front 7

Out group homogeneity

Back 7

Tendency to see all members of an outgroup as the same

Front 8

Prejudice

Back 8

Biased negative attitude based on an individuals group membership

Front 9

Discrimmination

Back 9

Negative behaviour towards another based on group membership

Front 10

Implicit association test

Back 10

Cognitive reaction time

Putting words into categories

Front 11

Attitude behaviours

Back 11

Favourable or unfavourable feelings beliefs or actions towards an object idea or person

Front 12

Attitude change

Back 12

Discomfort caused by information that challenges a person's conception as a rational person

Front 13

Persuasion

Back 13

Act of attempting to change the opinions, beliefs or choices of others by explanation or argument

Front 14

Nature of groups

Back 14

Important part of evolutionary history

Front 15

Social facilitation

Back 15

Presence of others influences one's performance

Improvement on easy tasks

Impairment on difficult tasks

Front 16

Social loafing

Back 16

Presence of others causes one to relax and slack off

Front 17

Conformity

Back 17

Tendency of people to adjust their behaviour to what others are doing

Front 18

Norms

Back 18

Rules about acceptable behaviour imposed by one's cultural context

Front 19

Informational social influence

Back 19

Others are a source of knowledge

Front 20

Normative social influence

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Drive by desire to be accepted by others

Front 21

Groupthink

Back 21

Thinking of group takes over

Front 22

Obedience

Back 22

Person yields to the authority of another person

Front 23

Aggression

Back 23

Violent behaviour that is intended to cause psychological or physical harm

Front 24

Pro-social behaviour

Back 24

Behaviours that benefit others

Front 25

Bystander effect

Back 25

The greater number of bystanders witnessing an emergency

Front 26

Altruism

Back 26

Selfless attitudes and behaviour towards others

Front 27

Kin selection

Back 27

Favouring of genes that prompts individuals to help their kin

Front 28

Reciprocal altruism

Back 28

You scratch my back, i'll scratch yours

Front 29

Social exchange

Back 29

Help when benefits outweigh costs

Front 30

Empathy

Back 30

Ability to share the feelings of others and understand situations

Front 31

Mere exposore

Back 31

Repeated exposure to a person, idea or person causes you to like it more

Front 32

Reciprocal liking

Back 32

We like those who like us