Chapter 16 vocab
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| Sub-field of psychology that studies how others influence our thoughts, feelings and actions | ||
| We attribute a person's behavior to an internal state (personality, abilities etc.) | ||
| Attributing a person's behavior to an external state (stress, abuse, hardship, wealth etc.) | ||
| Observer's bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others' behavior but external attributions in explaining their own | ||
| Tendency to blame the victim for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way | ||
| Tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors | ||
| Tendency to favor your own group over the out-group | ||
| Peoples' willingness to agree to a large request after having agreed to a related small request | ||
| People who behaved in certain ways in scripted scenarios have adopted attitudes in keeping those roles | ||
| When we act in a way not consistent with our beliefs we feel tension. We then revise our beliefs to align with our behavior | ||
| Being watched while doing a task vs. being alone when doing tasks | ||
| The process of forming impressions of others | ||
| Thoughts and beliefs held about people strictly because of their membership in a group | ||
| A negative attitude held toward members of a group | ||
| Negative actions towards a group | ||
| Blame other groups without as much power | ||
| Favor own group | ||
| Judge members of outgroup as more alike | ||
| Classical or operant conditioning | ||
| Easier to organize our world if we "categorize" |
