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| 310439112 | Social Psycology | the scientific study of how wwe think about, influence and relate to one another | |
| 310439113 | Attribution Theory | suggests how we explain someones behavior- by crediting either the situation or the person' disposition | |
| 310439114 | 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 | |
| 310439115 | Attitude | feelins, often based on our beliefs, the predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people and events | |
| 310439116 | Foot in the door phenomenom | the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger task | |
| 310439117 | Cognitive Dissonance Theory | the theory that we act to reduce the discomofrt (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent | |
| 310439118 | Conformity | adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard | |
| 310439119 | Normative Social Influence | influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval | |
| 310439120 | Informative Social Influence | Influence resulting from one's willingness to accpet other's opinions about reality | |
| 310439121 | Social Facilitation | stronger responses on simple or well learned tasks in the presence of others | |
| 310439122 | social loafing | the tendecy for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaitaing a common goal than when individually accountable | |
| 310439123 | deindividuation | the loss of self awarness and self restraint occuring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity | |
| 310439124 | group polarization | the enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion withint the group | |
| 310439125 | groupthink | the mode of thinking that accurs when the desire for harmony in a decision making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives | |
| 310439126 | prejudice | an unjustiable and usually negiative attitude toward a group and its members. it generally involves sterotyped beliefs, negavite feelins and a predispostion to discriminaoty action | |
| 310439127 | discrimination | unjustifiable negaivte behavior toward a group or its members | |
| 310439128 | ingroup | "us"- people with whom one shares a common identity | |
| 310439129 | outgroup | "them"- those perceived as differnt apart from one's group | |
| 310439130 | scapegoat theory | the theory the prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame | |
| 310439131 | just world phenomenon | the tendency of people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get | |
| 310439132 | aggression | any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy | |
| 310439133 | frustration-agression principle | the princple that frustration- the blocking of an attempt to acheive some goal- creates anger, which can generate aggression | |
| 310439134 | conflict | a percieved incompatibilty of actions, goals or ideas | |
| 310439135 | social trap | a sitatuion in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destrucitve behavior | |
| 310439136 | mere exposure effect | the phenomon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them | |
| 310439137 | passionate love | an aroused state of intense positive absorptionin another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship | |
| 310439138 | companionate love | the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined with | |
| 310439139 | equality | a condition in which people recieve from a relationship in proportion to what they give in | |
| 310439140 | self-disclosure | revealing intimate aspects of oneself to one another | |
| 310439141 | altruism | unselfish regard for the welfare of others | |
| 310439142 | bystander effect | the tendancy for any given bystander to be less liekly to igve aid if other bystanders are present | |
| 310439143 | social eschange theory | the theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs | |
| 310439144 | reciprocty norm | an expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them | |
| 310439145 | social responsilibilty norm | an expectation that people will help those dependent upon them | |
| 310439146 | superordinate goal | shared goals that override difference among people and require their cooperation | |
| 310439147 | GRIT | graduated and reciprocated initatives in tension reduction- a strategy designed to decrease international tensions |
