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| 216391827 | social psychology | branch of psychology that studies effect of: -social variables on individual behavior -attitudes, perceptions, and motives -group and inter-group phenomena | 0 | |
| 216391828 | Stanford Prison Experiment | -prison in Iraq, run by U.S. soldiers -abused prisoners at night (kept awake) -fundamental attribution error: personality (blaming bad people when it really it was just a bad situation) | 1 | |
| 216391829 | social rules | behavior guidelines for acting in a certain way for certain situations | 2 | |
| 216391830 | social role | pattern of behavior that's expected of a person in particular environment | 3 | |
| 216391831 | social norms | expectations a group has for it's members (stereotypes) -broad guidelines or specific standards of conducts | 4 | |
| 216391832 | Peripheral route persuasion | persuasion that goes after emotions (ex. smile, laugh) | 5 | |
| 216391833 | Central route persuasion | persuasion that uses logic, providing information, rational | 6 | |
| 216391834 | Attitudes | positive of negative evaluations -Attitudes DO NOT always predict behavior | 7 | |
| 216391835 | ABCs of attitudes | Affective (feelings) Behavioral (what to do) Cognitive (thoughts) | 8 | |
| 216391836 | Attribution theory | concerned with how people interpret events and how this relates to their thinking and behavior | 9 | |
| 216391837 | Fundamental attribution error | trying to explain behavior in terms of internal disposition (ex. personality traits) as opposed to external factors | 10 | |
| 216391838 | Foot-in-the-door phenomenon | tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request | 11 | |
| 216391839 | cognitive dissonance | we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent (ex. awareness of attitudes and actions class, we reduce discomfort by changing our attitudes) | 12 | |
| 216391840 | conformity | adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard | 13 | |
| 216391841 | Normative social influence | people go against what they know is correct to be accepted or gain approval from others | 14 | |
| 216391842 | Informative social influence | people want to be correct and to understand right way to act in a given situation (willing to accept other's opinions about reality) | 15 | |
| 216391843 | social facilitation | stronger performance in presence of others (when others are around, you tend to work harder and produce better results) | 16 | |
| 216391844 | social loafing | tendency for people to exert less effort when surrounded by a lot of people because they are not individually accountable | 17 | |
| 216391845 | deindividuation | abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group (to be deindividuated is to be less self-conscious and less restrained when in a group situation) | 18 | |
| 216391846 | group polarization | enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group | 19 | |
| 216391847 | groupthink | mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal for other answers | 20 | |
| 216391848 | prejudice | an unjustifiable attitude towards a group and its members (usually involves stereotype beliefs, negative feelings, etc.) | 21 | |
| 216391849 | stereotype | a generalized belief about a group of people (typically negative) | 22 | |
| 216391850 | discrimination | unjustifiable negative BEHAVIOR toward a group and its members (it is shown in behavior rather than just thought and kept to oneself) | 23 | |
| 216391851 | ingroup | people we share a common identity with (the "us" in "us vs. them") | 24 | |
| 216391852 | outgroup | people who are different than us (the "them" in "us vs. them") | 25 | |
| 216391853 | ingroup bias | tendency to favor our own group | 26 | |
| 216391854 | scapegoat theory | theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame | 27 | |
| 216391855 | other-race effect | tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races | 28 | |
| 216391856 | just-world phenomenon | tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people get what they deserve | 29 | |
| 216391857 | aggression | physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone | 30 | |
| 216391858 | Frustration-aggression principle | principle that frustration (blocking of attempt to achieve a goal) creates anger that generates aggression ex. teacher getting irritated when students do not understand information and act on their aggression | 31 | |
| 216391859 | Mere-exposure effect | phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them (more often you're exposed to something, the more you'll like it) | 32 | |
| 216391860 | passionate love | love at first sight (based off of attractiveness to one another) | 33 | |
| 216391861 | compassionate love | deep affectionate attachment we feel for those we love (long-term love) | 34 | |
| 216391862 | equity | condition in which people receive as much as they give in a relationship | 35 | |
| 216391863 | self-disclosure | revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others | 36 | |
| 216391864 | Altruism | unselfish regard for the welfare of others (doing things for other people that have no personal benefit) | 37 | |
| 216391865 | bystander effect | tendency for people to be less likely to help other if other people are present | 38 | |
| 216391866 | social exchange theory | theory that people do minimum work as possible to get best results (ex. doing homework for the credit, not doing extra practice problems to benefit yourself) | 39 | |
| 216391867 | reciprocity norm | expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them | 40 | |
| 216391868 | social-responsibility norm | expectation that people will help those dependent upon them | 41 | |
| 216391869 | social trap | we harm our collective well-being by pursuing our personal interests (justifying your act) | 42 | |
| 216391870 | mirror-image perceptions | mutual views often held by conflicting people; each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side as evil and aggressive ex. during WW2, Japan saw Americans as evil rapists; Americans saw Japanese as villains/untrustworthy | 43 | |
| 216391871 | self-fulfilling prophecy | belief that leads to its own fulfillment | 44 | |
| 216391872 | superodinate goals | shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation | 45 | |
| 216391873 | GRIT | Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension-Reduction a strategy designed to decrease international tension | 46 | |
| 216391874 | Muzafer Sherif | Autokinetic effect study -initiated conflict among two groups of boys -the groups disliked each other, taunting and threatening -forced the two groups to work together to common goal --> got along (cooperative contact) | 47 | |
| 216391875 | Solomon Asch | Studied conformity -the line test with 4 lines (a standard line, one line identical to standard, and two lines of different lengths to identical) -when all the people before the 4th person gave the same answer, but the incorrect one, the 4th one would conform and answer as the others did (even knowing it was incorrect) | 48 | |
| 216391876 | Stanly Milgrm | Studied obedience with conformity -the "teacher" must knowingly electrically shock the "learner" every time they answer a question incorrectly -even if "teacher" does not want to continue the shock, they obey the authority telling them that the experiment must continue -more likely to shock "learner" when depersonalized | 49 | |
| 216391877 | Philip Zimbardo | Studied deindividuation -women depersonalized with Ku Klux Klan-style hoods delived twice as many electric shocks to victims as did women without disguise | 50 |
