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| 6598194875 | social psychology | the branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual. |  | 0 |
| 6598194876 | attribution theory | a theory that supposes that one attempts to understand the behavior of others by attributing feelings, beliefs, and intentions to them. |  | 1 |
| 6598194877 | fundamental attribution error | tendency to explain someone's behavior based on internal factors, such as personality or disposition, and to underestimate the influence that external factors, such as situational influences, have on another person's behavior. |  | 2 |
| 6598194878 | attitude | a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior. |  | 3 |
| 6598194879 | foot in the door phenomenon | compliance tactic that involves getting a person to agree to a large request by first setting them up by having that person agree to a modest request. |  | 4 |
| 6598194880 | cognitive dissonance theory | tendency for individuals to seek consistency among their opinions |  | 5 |
| 6598194881 | conformity normative | Normative social influence is a type of social influence leading to conformity |  | 6 |
| 6598194882 | social influence | Social influence occurs when one's emotions, opinions, or behaviors are affected by others. |  | 7 |
| 6598194883 | social facilitation | Social facilitation, or the audience effect, is the tendency for people to perform differently when in the presence of others than when alone. |  | 8 |
| 6598194884 | social loafing | social loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone. |  | 9 |
| 6598194885 | deindividuation | concept in social psychology that is generally thought of as the loss of self-awareness in groups, although this is a matter of contention . |  | 10 |
| 6598194886 | group polarization | phenomenon that when placed in group situations, people will make decisions and form opinions to more of an extreme than when they are in individual situations. |  | 11 |
| 6598194887 | groupthink | phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. |  | 12 |
| 6598194888 | prejudice | unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) towards an individual based solely on the individual's membership of a social group. |  | 13 |
| 6598194889 | stereotype | stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. |  | 14 |
| 6598194890 | discrimination | ability to perceive and respond to differences among stimuli. It is considered a more advanced form of learning than generalization, the ability to perceive similarities, although animals can be trained to discriminate as well as to generalize. |  | 15 |
| 6598194891 | in-group/outgroup | ingroup is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member. By contrast, an outgroup is a social group with which an individual does not identify. |  | 16 |
| 6598194892 | scapegoat theory | social psychological term that relates to prejudice. According to this theory, people may be prejudice toward a group in order to vent their anger. In essence, they use the group they dislike as their target for all of their anger |  | 17 |
| 6598194893 | just world phenomenon | term referring to people's tendency to believe that the world is just and that people get what they deserve. |  | 18 |
| 6598194894 | aggression | hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another |  | 19 |
| 6598194895 | frustration aggression | frustration, which is defined as "the state that emerges when circumstances interfere with a goal response," often leads to aggression. |  | 20 |
| 6598194896 | social trap | situation in which a group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole. |  | 21 |
| 6598194897 | mere exposure effect | psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. |  | 22 |
| 6598194898 | passionate love | intense feelings and sexual attraction. |  | 23 |
| 6598194899 | companionate love | involves feelings of mutual respect, trust, and affection while passionate love involves intense feelings and sexual attraction. |  | 24 |
| 6598194900 | equity | the quality of being fair and impartial. |  | 25 |
| 6598194901 | self disclosure | process of communication by which one person reveals information about himself or herself to another. |  | 26 |
| 6598194902 | altruism | the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others. |  | 27 |
| 6598194903 | bystander effect | phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present. |  | 28 |
| 6598194904 | Social Identity Theory | Many "selves" that correspond to a specific group we fnd ourelves in | 29 | |
| 6598194905 | Groupthink | When a group is focused on the harmony of the group they ignore the purpose of the group | 30 | |
| 6598194906 | Defining principles | Behavior is... -effected by social context -effected by own culture -affected by "social self" -our view of the world is resistant to change | 31 | |
| 6598194907 | Ecological Validity | How people act of try know they are being observed/studied | 32 | |
| 6598194908 | Qualitative research | Used for in depth study of behavior and "why" | 33 | |
| 6598194909 | Quantitative research | Study of behavior using data | 34 | |
| 6598194910 | Attribution theory | How we explain someone else's behavior (personality/disposition/situational) | 35 | |
| 6598194911 | Fundamental Attribution Error | Assuming behavior (actor observe effect) | 36 | |
| 6598194912 | Self serving bias | Taking credit for success, denying fault for failures | 37 | |
| 6598194913 | Attitudes | Beliefs and feelings that make us respond to situations a certain way | 38 | |
| 6598194914 | Foot in the door Phenomenon | People who agree to a small action will later agree to a larger action (salesperson) | 39 | |
| 6598194915 | Role playing | Adopting a new role and following the social norms becomes a part of you (zimbardo) | 40 | |
| 6598194916 | Cognitive Consistency | Match between persons thoughts and behaviors | 41 | |
| 6598194917 | Cognitive Dissonance | Mismatch between attitudes and actions (make tension) | 42 | |
| 6598194918 | Conformity | Adjusting behavior to go along w a group (Asch exp.) | 43 | |
| 6598194919 | Authority | People comply more often with authority figures | 44 | |
| 6598194920 | Normative social influence | Conforming to a pos/neg disapproval from a group | 45 | |
| 6598194921 | Informative social Influence | Conforming results in accepting others opinions | 46 | |
| 6598194922 | Commitment | Once people agree to something they feel committed to comply with further requests | 47 | |
| 6598194923 | Low balling technique | Securing agreement before revealing cost (cialdini) | 48 | |
| 6598194924 | Liking | People comply with requests from people they like | 49 | |
| 6598194925 | Reciprocity | People feel they are committed to returning the favor | 50 | |
| 6598194926 | Door in the face technique | Asking of someone a large action they are likely to refuse then asking a second smaller action they feel obligated to take since they rejected you the first time | 51 | |
| 6598194927 | Scarcity | Valuing things more when they are less available | 52 | |
| 6598194928 | Social proofing | People view a behavior as correct if they see others doing the same (setting example) | 53 | |
| 6598194929 | Obedience Principle | People are more likely to obey if they are answering to an authority figure (Milgram exp.) | 54 | |
| 6598194930 | Social facilitation | One performs better in the presence of others | 55 | |
| 6598194931 | Social loafing | People put in less effort in a group | 56 | |
| 6598194932 | Deindividualization | Loss of focus when in group situations | 57 | |
| 6598194933 | Group polarization | Exaggeration of members views through group interaction | 58 | |
| 6598194934 | Prejudice | Unjustified attitude towards a group of people | 59 | |
| 6598194935 | Stereotype/Categorization | Generalized belief towards a group of people | 60 | |
| 6598194936 | Discrimination | Unjustified behavior towards a group of people | 61 | |
| 6598194937 | Social Reasons for Prejudice | -social inequalities -in group/ out group bias (Tajfel exp.) | 62 | |
| 6598194938 | In group bias | Favoring ones group | 63 | |
| 6598194939 | Ethnocentrism | Believing your way of doing something is better than someone else's | 64 | |
| 6598194940 | Scapegoat Theory | Outlet for anger by blaming someone else | 65 | |
| 6598194941 | Vivid cases | Availability heuristic | 66 | |
| 6598194942 | Illusory correlations | Seeing connection between a group of people | 67 | |
| 6598194943 | Just world phenomenon | When people see the world as they think it should be | 68 | |
| 6598194944 | Stereotype threat | When made known of stereotype you are more self conscious about being negatively evaluated | 69 | |
| 6598194945 | Spotlight effect | Thinking everyone's looking at you when they aren't | 70 | |
| 6598194946 | Confirmation bias | Seeking info that confirms prejudice/pre existing beliefs | 71 | |
| 6598194947 | Aggression | Any behavior meant to hurt | 72 | |
| 6598194948 | Frustration aggression principle | An increase in frustration leads to an increase in aggression | 73 | |
| 6598194949 | Catharsis | Redox anger through releasing tension (doesn't really make one feel better) | 74 | |
| 6598194950 | Conflict | Incompatibility of actions, goals or ideas | 75 | |
| 6598194951 | Social trap | Being caught up in or own self | 76 | |
| 6598194952 | Mirror image perceptions | We see our enemies as bad as they see us | 77 | |
| 6598194953 | Mere exposure effect | Repeated exposure to something/one increases liking | 78 | |
| 6598194954 | Passionate love | Intense positive attraction at its strongest | 79 | |
| 6598194955 | Companionate love | Deep affection for those we see constantly | 80 | |
| 6598194956 | Equity | Give as much as you receive | 81 | |
| 6598194957 | Self disclosure | Revealing intimate details about yourself | 82 | |
| 6598194958 | Bystander intervention | You are less likely to help if others are around to help for you (we assume) | 83 | |
| 6598194959 | Diffusion of responsibility | Lack of responsibility due to presence of others | 84 | |
| 6598194960 | Social exchange theory | Max limiting benefits, minimizing costs | 85 | |
| 6598194961 | Reciprocity | Returning the favor | 86 | |
| 6598194962 | Steps leading towards Peace | -cooperation -communication -conciliation (trying to make it better) | 87 | |
| 6598194963 | GRIT | Graduated Reciprocated Initiatives In Tension Reduction | 88 |
