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| 6610315282 | Social context | how someone reacts to something depending on their immediate social or physical environment. | 0 | |
| 6610316227 | Situationism | theory that places emphasis on external and situational factors in personality and behavior. | 1 | |
| 6610317876 | Dispositionism | belief that people's actions are conditioned by some internal factor, such as beliefs, values, personality traits, or abilities, rather than the situation they find themselves in | 2 | |
| 6610331266 | Social role | the pattern behavior that is expected of a person who is on a particular social position. | 3 | |
| 6610339917 | Script | series of behaviors, actions, and consequences that are expected in a particular situation or environment | 4 | |
| 6610341308 | Norms of reciprocity | assumption that if someone does something for a person, that person should do something for the other in return | 5 | |
| 6610342575 | Norm | unwritten but understood rules of a society or culture for the behaviors that are considered acceptable and expected | 6 | |
| 6610344306 | Asch effect | A form of conformity in which a group majority influences individual judgments. | 7 | |
| 6610345286 | Conformity | changing one's behavior to match those of other people or a group standard | 8 | |
| 6610346992 | Reward theory of attraction | A social-learning view that says we like best those who give us maximum rewards at minimum cost | 9 | |
| 6610359332 | Cognitive dissonance | sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person's behavior does not correspond to that person's attitude. | 10 | |
| 6610362156 | Fundamental attribution error | the tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors in determining the behavior of another person (the actor), to underestimate the situation and to overestimate the personal disposition. | 11 | |
| 6610364453 | Self-serving bias | people's tendency to attribute positive outcomes to personal factors, but attribute negative outcomes to external factors | 12 | |
| 6610365058 | Prejudice | negative attitude | 13 | |
| 6610365995 | Social loafing | tendency for people in a group to put less effort into the task when the effort is pooled (when they are all supposed to work on the task) compared to when they are all responsible for their own contributions | 14 | |
| 6610368089 | Groupthink- | When people place more importance on maintaining a group cohesiveness than on assessing the facts of the problem with which the groups is concerned | 15 | |
| 6610370105 | door in the face technique | asking for a large commitment and being refused and then asking for a smaller commitment | 16 | |
| 6610374430 | foot in the door technique | asking for a small commitment and, after gaining compliance,asking for a bigger commitment | 17 | |
| 6610378012 | social facilitation | the tendency for the presence of other people to have a positive impact on the performance of an easy task | 18 | |
| 6610381160 | central route processing | type of information processing that involves attending to the content of the message itself | 19 | |
| 6610383047 | peripheral route processing | involves attending to factors not involved in the message, such as the appearance of the source of the message, the length of the message, and other noncontent factors | 20 | |
| 6610394514 | Diffusion of respondsibility | occurring when a person fails to take responsibility for actions or for inactions because of the presence of other people who are seen to share the responsibility | 21 | |
| 6615138943 | Discrimination | treating people differently because of prejudice toward the social group to which they belong | 22 | |
| 6615144896 | Expectancy value theories | incentive theories that assume the actions of humans cannot be predicted or fully understood without understanding the beliefs, values, and the importance that a person attaches to those beliefs and values at given moment in time | 23 | |
| 6615162290 | Group polarization | the strengthening of shared beliefs through discussion | 24 | |
| 6615182271 | bystander effect | referring to the effect that the presence of other people has on the decision to help or not help, with help becoming less likely as the number of bystanders increases | 25 |
