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| 6458982916 | Social cognition | how we form impressions of others, interpret the behaviors of others | 0 | |
| 6458985671 | Social influence | howe our behavior is affected by others | 1 | |
| 6458990700 | Person perception | always occurs in an interpersonal context, mental processes used to judge others | 2 | |
| 6458997510 | Explicit cognition | deliberate, conscious mental processes involved in judgments | 3 | |
| 6459000480 | Implicit cognition | unconscious mental processes that influence judgments | 4 | |
| 6459005606 | Halo effect | first impression can interfere with new information that conflicts with first impression | 5 | |
| 6459011694 | Social categorization | mental process of placing people into groups on the basis of their shared characteristics | 6 | |
| 6460472908 | Attribution | mental process of inferring the cause of people's behavior | 7 | |
| 6460477041 | Fundamental attribution error | the tendancy to attribute behavior of others as internal, but own behavior as external or situational | 8 | |
| 6460487715 | Actor-observer bias | attribute our own behavior to external factors, minimizing internal factors | 9 | |
| 6460494573 | Blaming the victim | blame the innocent victim of misfortune for having caused the misfortune | 10 | |
| 6460499045 | Hindsight bias | overestimate one's ability to predict an outcome of an evenst | 11 | |
| 6460503974 | Just-world hypothesis | assumption that the world is fair and people get what they deserve | 12 | |
| 6460507911 | Self-serving bias | the idea that one's own success is from internal factors, but one's failures are due to external factors | 13 | |
| 6460515332 | Self-effacing bias | aka modesty bias, failure blamed on internal factors, success is due to external factors | 14 | |
| 6460525491 | Attitude | has three components: cognitive, affective, behavioral | 15 | |
| 6460536476 | Cognitive dissonance | unpleasant state of psychological tension when there is an inconsistency between two thoughts | 16 | |
| 6460545551 | Prejudice | negative attitude toward people who belong to a specific social group | 17 | |
| 6460549861 | Stereotype | cluster of characteristics associated with all members of a particular group | 18 | |
| 6460553595 | Stereotype threat | performance negatively impacted due to association with a particular stereotype | 19 | |
| 6460559854 | In-group/Out-group | group to which we belong/don't belong | 20 | |
| 6460561906 | Out-group homogeneity effect | tendency to see members of out-groups as being similar to one another | 21 | |
| 6460565147 | In-group bias | tendency to see members of one's own group as having positive attributions | 22 | |
| 6460575556 | Implicit attitudes | preferences and biases toward specific groups that are automatic, spontaneous, unconscious | 23 | |
| 6460581854 | Robber's Cave | experiment where prejudice was overcome through working to achieve a common goal | 24 | |
| 6460584546 | Jigsaw Classroom | students in this setting had higher self-esteem and greater liking for other children in different ethnic groups | 25 | |
| 6460591370 | Conformity | adjusting opinions to match the norms of a social group | 26 | |
| 6460594192 | Asch Experiment | famous line study that tested conformity | 27 | |
| 6460640558 | 37% | in Asch study, number of trials that subjects followed majority and gave wrong answer in | 28 | |
| 6460645183 | 65% | in Milgram's study, the number of people who administered "shocks" to the end | 29 | |
| 6460652006 | Normative social influence | behavior motivated by social approval | 30 | |
| 6460655209 | Informational social influence | behavior motivated by the desire to be correct | 31 | |
| 6460662308 | Obedience | what was tested in the Milgram study | 32 | |
| 6460673760 | Stanford Prison Experiment | tested whether subjects would conform to social norms and social roles | 33 | |
| 6460685552 | Kitty Genovese | her murder questioned the bystander effect | 34 | |
| 6460696204 | Bystander effect | increases with the number of people, but also increases in a small town setting | 35 | |
| 6460697942 | Altruism | selfless act helping another person | 36 | |
| 6460701310 | Prosocial behavior | any behavior that helps another person | 37 | |
| 6460702758 | Anti-social behavior | any behavior that harms another person | 38 | |
| 6460707788 | "Feel good, do good" | effect that increases the likelihood of someone helping | 39 | |
| 6460712146 | Diffusion of responsibility | increased presence of other people decreases the likelihood of others helping because the obligation to help is shared among others | 40 | |
| 6460721013 | Aggression | testosterone and alcohol influences this | 41 | |
| 6460734188 | Social loafing | expend less energy when the task is a group effort | 42 | |
| 6460736830 | Social striving | expend more energy when the task is a group effort | 43 | |
| 6460739141 | Social facilitation | presence of others enhances one's performance | 44 | |
| 6460741222 | Deindividuation | reduction of self-awareness due to being part of a group, anonymity in a mob | 45 | |
| 6460751061 | Rule of reciprocity | when someone gives you something, you feel obligated to give them something in return | 46 | |
| 6460754892 | Door-in-the-face | large request followed up by a small request | 47 | |
| 6460756855 | Foot-in-the-door | small request followed up by a larger request | 48 | |
| 6460769524 | Low-ball | understate the cost of the product, then ups the price | 49 | |
| 6465032593 | Social norm | socially determined standards of behavior | 50 | |
| 6465037987 | Group polarization | tendency of members of a group to move to more extreme positions of opinion | 51 | |
| 6488014729 | Ethnocentrism | when one glorifies one's own ethnic group over other ethnic groups | 52 |
