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| 9456489795 | Attribution Theory | tendency to give explanations for someone's behavior, often by crediting situation or person's disposition | 0 | |
| 9456499500 | Fundamental Attribution Theory | tendency to overestimate the impact of person's disposition and underestimate impact of situation | 1 | |
| 9456502409 | Foot in the Door Phenomenon | tendency to apply w/ larger requests after responding to a smaller request | 2 | |
| 9456504236 | Zimbardo - Stanford Prison Experiment/Lucifer Effect | Role Playing: People take on the role of what they feel are proper for the situation | 3 | |
| 9456511671 | Cognitive Dissonance | people change their behavior to avoid looking bad, ie person is against gay rights then becomes gay, he will change attitude to gay rights activist | 4 | |
| 9456517717 | Asch - confomity | tendency to go along with the views and actions of others, even if you know they are wrong - line test | 5 | |
| 9456521019 | Milgram - obedience | people tend to obey authority figures; 60% of participants thought they delivered the max possible level of shock | 6 | |
| 9456523647 | Social Facilitation | improved performance in presence of others; easy tasks get easier as hard tasks get harder | 7 | |
| 9456525978 | Social Loafing | in the presence of others, people tend to do less, partly because they believe others will do it | 8 | |
| 9456528755 | Deindividualization | loss of self-awareness and self-restraint, typically in a sense of anomie (mob situation) | 9 | |
| 9456531723 | Group Polarization | if a group is like-minded, discussion strengthens prevailing options and attitudes | 10 | |
| 9456535532 | Groupthink | a mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decisionmaking group overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives | 11 | |
| 9456537566 | Just-World Phenomenon | tendency of people to believe that the world is just and people get what they deserve and deserve what they get | 12 | |
| 9456539952 | Social Traps | situation in which the confliction parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interests, become caught in mutually destructive behavior. | 13 | |
| 9456542293 | In-group | people with whom one shares a common identity with | 14 | |
| 9456547511 | Out-group | those perceived as different from themselves | 15 | |
| 9456550542 | Hindsight Bias | tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that we would have predicted it beforehand and may contribute to blaming the victim and forming prejudices against him/her | 16 | |
| 9456895247 | Prejudice | unjustifiable attitude towards a group and its members | 17 | |
| 9456899516 | Mere exposure effect | the mere exposure to a stimulus will increase the liking of it | 18 | |
| 9456907098 | Altruism | unselfish regard for the welfare to others | 19 | |
| 9456912446 | Bystander effect | tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present | 20 | |
| 9456917025 | Reciprocity Norms | the expectation that we should return help, not harm to those who have helped us | 21 | |
| 9456920481 | Biological | explore the links between brain and mind | 22 | |
| 9456923750 | Cognitive | study how we perceive, thinks, and solve problems | 23 | |
| 9456926884 | Humanistic | study that says that humans are basically good and possess a free-will | 24 | |
| 9456931788 | Behavioral | study that says all behavior is observable and measurable | 25 | |
| 9456935250 | Psychoanalytic | study of the unconscious, includes childhood and aggression issues | 26 | |
| 9456938069 | Sociocultural | study of how cultural and political experiences affect our life | 27 | |
| 9456940438 | Evolutionary | study of the evolutionary of humans over time (from apes) | 28 | |
| 9456944493 | Developmental | study of our changing abilities from womb to tomb | 29 | |
| 9456947266 | Wilhelm Wundt | father of psychology | 30 | |
| 9456949953 | Introspection | looking inward at one's own mental processes | 31 | |
| 9456954954 | Structuralism | analyze sensations, images, and feelings into their most basic elements | 32 | |
| 9456957194 | William James | the brain and mind are constantly changing | 33 | |
| 9456968861 | Functionalism | underlying causes and practical consequences of certain behaviors and mental strategies - "steam of consciousness" | 34 | |
| 9456971221 | John Locke - Tabula Rosa | mind is a blank slate written on by experiences | 35 | |
| 9456973878 | Sigmund Freud | founder of psychoanalysis | 36 | |
| 9456976230 | Psychoanalytic Theory | all behavior is meaningful and driven by unconscious forces | 37 | |
| 9456978530 | Applied Research | aims to solve practical problems | 38 | |
| 9456981754 | Basic Research | pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base | 39 | |
| 9456984674 | Hypothesis | is a testable prediction, often induced by a thy, to enable us to accept, reject, or revise the thy (educational guess) | 40 | |
| 9456986535 | Independent variable | a factor, manipulated by the experimenter, and whose effect is studies | 41 | |
| 9456993581 | dependent variable | a factor that may change in response to the IV | 42 | |
| 9456997600 | Theory | is an explanation that integrates principles, organizes, and predicts behavior or event | 43 | |
| 9456999978 | Operational definition | a clear statement of what one is looking for in an experiment | 44 | |
| 9457002506 | Validity | it measure what you want it to be measured | 45 | |
| 9457005533 | Reliability | it is replicable and is consistent | 46 | |
| 9457007459 | Sampling | process by which participants are selected | 47 | |
| 9457009920 | Population | the amount of participants that can be selected for the sample | 48 | |
| 9457014569 | Representative sample | take the results from a smaller group and apply that to a larger group of people | 49 | |
| 9457016713 | Random sample | everyone has an equal chance of being selected for the experiment because the participants are chosen at random | 50 | |
| 9457018646 | Control | group that does not take part in the critical part of the experimentation process, used as a comparison group | 51 | |
| 9457021460 | Experimenter bias | the experimenter, either unconsciously or consciously, affects the outcome of the experiment | 52 | |
| 9457024010 | Single-blind procedure | the subjects do not know to what group they belong Double-blind procedure - neither the experimenter nor the subject knows to what group the subjects are in | 53 | |
| 9457027474 | Hawthorne effect | if you know you're being studied, you will act differently than you normally/typically would | 54 | |
| 9457029600 | Placebo - sugar pill | something administered that has no real affect on the person other than what they think mentally | 55 | |
| 9457032798 | Positive correlation | as one goes up, the other goes up | 56 | |
| 9457035737 | Negative correlation | as one goes up, the other goes down | 57 | |
| 9457040549 | Survey | a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes, opinions, or behavior of people in a questionnaire, or similar way of ascertaining information | 58 | |
| 9457044209 | Naturalistic observation | observing and recording behavior in the wild/natural environment | 59 | |
| 9457046119 | Case study | get a full, detailed picture of one participant or a small group of participants | 60 | |
| 9457048534 | Mean | average of the scores - add them up and divide by total number of scores | 61 | |
| 9457050841 | Median | middle score - when all scores are put numerically in order, the middle score | 62 | |
| 9457052872 | Mode | the most frequently occurring score in the distribution | 63 | |
| 9457055425 | Range | the lowest score subtracted from the higher score | 64 | |
| 9457058272 | Standard Deviation | the average distance of scores around the mean | 65 | |
| 9457060710 | z-score | a type of standard score that tells us how many standard deviation units a given score is above or below the mean for that group | 66 |
