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| 9552153757 | Philip Zimbardo | Prison experiment (6 days - the guards became evil and by the end everyone thought it was a real prison), fried grasshopper experiment | 0 | |
| 9552153758 | Solomon Asch | Developed the line test to test for conformity- people conformed 33% of the time | 1 | |
| 9552153759 | Leon Festinger | Proposed the cognitive dissonance theory | 2 | |
| 9552153760 | Stanley Milgram | Student of Asch, shock experiments with the "teacher" and "learner", tested obedience (which varied based on circumstances in each experiment) | 3 | |
| 9552153761 | Social psychology | explore how we think about, influence, and relate to eachother | 4 | |
| 9552153762 | attribution theory | internal disposition or external situations, proposed by Fritz Heider | 5 | |
| 9552153763 | situational attribution | we attribute something to the situation | 6 | |
| 9552153764 | dispositional attribution | we attribute something to our personality | 7 | |
| 9552153765 | fundamental attribution error | we overestimate the influence of personality | 8 | |
| 9552153766 | actor-observer effect | seeing the world from the actor's perception we better appreciate the situation, how we view thing from the outside or n the actor's view | 9 | |
| 9552153767 | self-serving bias | we like to skew our perceptions to make ourselves seem better, like attributing good things to ourselves and bad to the situation | 10 | |
| 9552153768 | central route persuasion | people are analytical and involved with the problem, giving facts, demonstrating, etc. (focus on arguments and respond with favorable thoughts), less superficial | 11 | |
| 9552153769 | peripheral route persuasion | people respond to incidental cues, attractiveness, celebrity endorsement, etc. (faster judgements) | 12 | |
| 9552153770 | foot-in-the-door phenomenon | people agree to a small action and then are more likely to agree to a larger one -Cialdini | 13 | |
| 9552153771 | familiarity effect | being familiar/ recognizing with something and thus being affected by it | 14 | |
| 9552153772 | validity effect | you hear about something often and thus believe it more (ex: I've heard it a lot, so it's probably true) | 15 | |
| 9552153773 | role | the set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave | 16 | |
| 9552153774 | cognitive dissonance theory | when we know our attitudes and actions don't match -Festinger | 17 | |
| 9552153775 | conformity | adjusting behavior and thinking toward a group standard, Chartrand studied the chameleon effect where humans copycat and Asch developed the line test | 18 | |
| 9552153776 | normative social influence | we understand social norms because the price for being different is severe, influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval | 19 | |
| 9552153777 | informational social influence | influence resulting from willingness to accept others' opinions about reality | 20 | |
| 9552153778 | social facilitation | people perform better when competing against others- only in simple tasks. For harder ones, people performed worse when being watched. | 21 | |
| 9552153779 | social loafing | tendency for people to work less in a group | 22 | |
| 9552153780 | deindividuation | abandoning normal restraints to power of group, loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity (ex: KKK, riots, food fights, tribal masks, etc.) | 23 | |
| 9552153781 | group polarization | amplification of group's prevailing tendencies- terrorism! | 24 | |
| 9552153782 | Groupthink | to preserve good feelings dissents are self-censored, desire for harmony in a group- Janis came up with this | 25 | |
| 9552153783 | culture norm | rules for accepted and expected behavior | 26 | |
| 9552153784 | personal space | body buffer zone! (personal bubble please) | 27 | |
| 9552153785 | Prejudice | prejudgement (the attitude, not the action) | 28 | |
| 9552153786 | Stereotype | a trait commonly associated with a type of person (ex: dumb blondes), rationalize inequalities | 29 | |
| 9552153787 | ethnocentrism | people believe their own race is best | 30 | |
| 9552153788 | contact hypothesis | interaction/ contact can help people accept each other | 31 | |
| 9552153789 | discrimination | predisposition to action (the prejudiced beliefs may influence such acts) | 32 | |
| 9552153790 | implicit and explicit attitudes | internal and external attitudes (what we really feel vs. what we show or say on the outside) | 33 | |
| 9552153791 | Implicit Association Test | test what people associate other people with (ex: black names = violence) | 34 | |
| 9552153792 | Ingroup | us | 35 | |
| 9552153793 | Outgroup | them | 36 | |
| 9552153794 | ingroup bias | people like their own group best | 37 | |
| 9552153795 | scapegoat theory | finding someone to blame releases tension | 38 | |
| 9552153796 | other-race effect | tendency to recognize your own race more accurately | 39 | |
| 9552153797 | social identity | we associate ourselves with certain groups and contrast ourselves with others | 40 | |
| 9552153798 | ethnic identity | we associate ourselves with a certain ethnicity and contrast ourselves with others (?) | 41 | |
| 9552153799 | just-world phenomenon | Good behavior is rewarded and bad behavior is punished, believe that other people get what they deserve | 42 | |
| 9552153800 | blaming the victim | people think that the victim is partly to blame for their situation | 43 | |
| 9552153801 | aggression | any physical/verbal behavior intended to destroy | 44 | |
| 9552153802 | frustration-aggression principle | frustration creates anger which may create aggression | 45 | |
| 9552153803 | mere-exposure effect | the more you are around someone or something the more you like it or them | 46 | |
| 9552153804 | passionate love | physical arousal and cognitive appraisal, temporary, beginning of a love relationship | 47 | |
| 9552153805 | companionate love | deep affectionate attachment, comes after passionate stage | 48 | |
| 9552153806 | equity | both partners receive in proportion to what they give | 49 | |
| 9552153807 | self-disclosure | revealing intimate details about ourselves | 50 | |
| 9552153808 | altruism | unselfish regard for welfare of others | 51 | |
| 9552153809 | bystander effect | when more people share the responsibility to help, any single observer is less likely to help | 52 | |
| 9552153810 | diffusion of responsibility | bystander effect, people feel less responsible when in the presence of others | 53 | |
| 9552153811 | social exchange theory | maximize reward and minimize cost | 54 | |
| 9552153812 | reciprocity norm | we help others who have helped us - expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them | 55 | |
| 9552153813 | social-responsibility norm | we help others who need our help, expectation that people will help those dependent upon them | 56 | |
| 9552153814 | conflict | perceived incompatibility of actions, goals or ideas | 57 | |
| 9552153815 | self-fulfilling prophecy | influence makes you act so that it comes true (Ex: You think he hates you, so you act coldly to him. He is offended and thus does hate you) | 58 | |
| 9552153816 | superordinate goals | goals that bring people together to cooperate | 59 | |
| 9552153817 | attitude | feelings that influence our thoughts, actions, etc. | 60 |
