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| 7771579285 | Aggression | physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone. |  | 0 |
| 7771579286 | Aggression/Biochemical Influences | Animals with diminished amounts of testosterone become docile (tame), and if injected with testosterone aggression increases. | 1 | |
| 7771579288 | Aggression/Neural Influences | Some centers in the brain, especially the limbic system (amygdala) and the frontal lobe, are intimately involved with aggression. | 2 | |
| 7771579289 | Altruism | unselfish regard for the welfare of others. |  | 3 |
| 7771579290 | Approach-Approach Conflict | Conflict when a choice must be made between two desirable alternatives; Win-Win | 4 | |
| 7771579291 | Approach-Avoidance Conflict | Conflict when a goal is both desirable and undesirable; Win-lose | 5 | |
| 7771579292 | Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict | Conflict when a choice must be made between two undesirable alternatives; Lose-Lose | 6 | |
| 7771579293 | Asch Line Experiment | experiment designed to test how peer pressure to conform would influence the judgment and individuality of a test subject; found people were willing to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the rest of the group. |  | 7 |
| 7771579294 | Attitude | feelings, often influenced by our beliefs that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events. | 8 | |
| 7771579296 | Attraction | the natural feeling of being drawn to other individuals and desiring their company. This is usually (but not necessarily) due to having a personal liking for them. | 9 | |
| 7771579297 | Factors of Attraction | 1. Proximity; 2. Physical Attractiveness; 3. Similarity | 10 | |
| 7771579298 | Attribution Theory | the theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition (who they are/personality). | 11 | |
| 7771579300 | Bystander Effect | the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid/help in a situation if other people are present. | 12 | |
| 7771579301 | Central Route Persuasion | involves reasoning and logical arguments to convince/persuade people | 13 | |
| 7771579302 | Chameleon Effect | Strange phenomenon in which we tend to unconsciously mimic the speech pattern, tone of voice, behavior and mood of others | 14 | |
| 7771579303 | Cognitive Dissonance | the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when our thoughts (cognitions) and behaviors (actions) are inconsistent/don't match. Must either change behavior or thought to line up to reduce discomfort. | 15 | |
| 7771579304 | Companionate Love | the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined. | 16 | |
| 7771579305 | Compliance | Conforming to a request or demand | 17 | |
| 7771579306 | Conflict | a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas. | 18 | |
| 7771579307 | Conformity | adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. | 19 | |
| 7771579308 | Culture | the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next | 20 | |
| 7771579309 | Deindividuation | the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity. | 21 | |
| 7771579310 | Diffusion of Responsibility | reduction in feelings of personal burden or responsibility in the presence of a group | 22 | |
| 7771579311 | Discrimination | (Social) unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members. | 23 | |
| 7771579312 | Dispositional Attribution | people infer that an event or a person's behavior is due to personal factors such as traits, abilities, personality or feelings | 24 | |
| 7771579313 | Door-in-the-face Phenomenon | Tendency for people who have first refused a large request to comply later with a smaller request. | 25 | |
| 7771579315 | Ethnocentricism | evaluation of other cultures according to the standards and customs of one's own culture | 26 | |
| 7771579316 | Mirror Image Perceptions | People in conflict form similarly diabolical images of one another; See the worse in them and they see the worse in us. | 27 | |
| 7771579317 | Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon | the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request. | 28 | |
| 7771579318 | Frustration-Aggression Principle | the principle that frustration—the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal—creates anger, which can generate aggression. | 29 | |
| 7771579319 | Fundamental Attribution Error | the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition. | 30 | |
| 7771579320 | Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension Reduction (GRIT) | a strategy designed to decrease international tensions. | 31 | |
| 7771579321 | Group Polarization | the tendency for a person to change their uncommitted opinion to an extreme opinion about something as a result of group discussion | 32 | |
| 7771579322 | Groupthink | the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives; group members censor themselves and a strong leader emerges | 33 | |
| 7771579323 | Hindsight Bias | After learning an outcome, the tendency to believe that we could have predicted it beforehand; "I knew it all along" phenomenon. | 34 | |
| 7771579325 | Informational Social Influence | influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality because they believe others know more than they do | 35 | |
| 7771579326 | Ingroup Bias | the tendency to favor our own group. | 36 | |
| 7771579327 | Ingroup | "Us"—people with whom we share a common identity. | 37 | |
| 7771579328 | Just-World Phenomenon | the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get. | 38 | |
| 7771579329 | Kitty Genovese | brutally murdered while dozens of New Yorkers watched from their apartments but failed to help; led to concept of bystander effect | 39 | |
| 7771579330 | Mere Exposure Effect | the phenomenon that repeated exposure to stimuli increases liking of them. | 40 | |
| 7771579331 | Milgram Experiment | a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority | 41 | |
| 7771579332 | Mirror-Image Perceptions | mutual views often held by conflicting people, as when each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side as evil and aggressive. | 42 | |
| 7771579333 | Norm | an understood rule for accepted and expected, "proper" behavior. | 43 | |
| 7771579334 | Normative Social Influence | influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval. | 44 | |
| 7771579335 | Other-Race Effect | the tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races. | 45 | |
| 7771579336 | Outgroup | "Them"—those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup. | 46 | |
| 7771579337 | Passionate Love | an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship. | 47 | |
| 7771579338 | Peripheral Route Persuasion | influences people by way of incidental cues, like a speaker's physical attractiveness or personal reliability. | 48 | |
| 7771579340 | Philip Zimbardo | Social Psychologist that conducted Stanford Prison Experiment | 49 | |
| 7771579342 | Prejudice | an unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. It generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action. | 50 | |
| 7771579343 | Proximity | Geographic nearness is a powerful predictor of friendship & liking. | 51 | |
| 7771579344 | Reciprocity Norm | an expectation that people will help those who have helped them. | 52 | |
| 7771579345 | Role | a set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave. | 53 | |
| 7771579346 | Scapegoat Theory | the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame. | 54 | |
| 7771579347 | Self-Disclosure | revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others. | 55 | |
| 7771579348 | Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | a belief that leads to its own fulfillment | 56 | |
| 7771579349 | Similarity | Similar views among individuals causes the bond of attraction to strengthen; Doesn't mean you are EXACTLY the SAME, but SIMILAR in the BIG ways... | 57 | |
| 7771579350 | Situational Attribution | people infer that a person's behavior is due to situational factors. | 58 | |
| 7771579351 | Social Exchange Theory | the theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs. | 59 | |
| 7771579352 | Social Facilitation | stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others. | 60 | |
| 7771579353 | Social Loafing | the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable or doing something alone. | 61 | |
| 7771579354 | Social Psychology | the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another. | 62 | |
| 7771579355 | Social Script | Unspoken "rules" on how to act in various social contexts; when confronted with new social situations, we rely on these to understand what to do. | 63 | |
| 7771579356 | Social Thinking | involves thinking about others, especially when they engage in doing things that are unexpected. | 64 | |
| 7771579357 | Social Trap | a situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior. | 65 | |
| 7771579358 | Social-Responsibility Norm | an expectation that people will help those dependent upon them. | 66 | |
| 7771579359 | Stanford Prison Experiment | Study that investigated how readily people would conform to the roles of guard and prisoner in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life; realized Power of the Situation | 67 | |
| 7771579360 | Stereotype | a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people. | 68 | |
| 7771579361 | Superordinate Goals | shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation | 69 | |
| 7771579362 | The Robbers Cave Experiment | Muzafer Sherif, Social Psychology experiment,focused heavily on the concept of a 'group' and what a perception of belonging to a group can actually do to the relationships of members within it and their relationships with people outside their group; also tried to observe conflicts or 'friction' between two groups and the process of cooperation or 'integration' of two previously conflicting groups. | 70 |
