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| 34481587 | Actor-observer Bias | The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to internal causes while attributing one's own behavior (especially failure) to external causes | 0 | |
| 34481588 | Aggression | An act that is intended to cause harm to another person | 1 | |
| 34481589 | Altruism | An unselfish concern for another's welfare | 2 | |
| 34481590 | Arousal: Cost-Reward Theory | A theory attributing people's helping behavior to their efforts to reduce unpleasant arousal they feel in the face of someone's need or suffering | 3 | |
| 34481591 | Attitude | A predisposition toward a particular cognitive, emotional, or behavioral reaction to objects | 4 | |
| 34481592 | Factors Influencing Attitude Change | peripheral route persuasion: Little attention to content, concerned with persuasion cues such as attractiveness and confidence of person Central route persuasion: Content persuades people to change attitude Self perception Theory Cognitive Dissonance Theory | 5 | |
| 34481593 | Attribution | The process people go through to explain causes of behavior (including their own) | 6 | |
| 34481594 | Bystander Effect | A phenomenon in which the chances that someone will help in an emergency decrease as the number of people present increases | 7 | |
| 34481595 | Cognitive Dissonance Theory | A theory asserting that attitude change is driven by efforts to reduce tension caused by inconsistencies between attitude and behaviors | 8 | |
| 34539285 | Confounding Variable | In an experiment, any factor that affects the dependent variable, along with or instead of the independent variable. | 9 | |
| 34539286 | Control Group | In an experiment, the group that receives no treatment or provides some other baseline against which to compare the performance or response of the experimental group. | 10 | |
| 34539287 | Correlation | In research, the degree to which one variable is related to another. | 11 | |
| 34539288 | Correlation Coefficient | A statistic, r, that summarizes the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables. | 12 | |
| 34539289 | Correlational Study | A research method that examines relationships between variables in order to analyze trends in data, to test predictions, to evaluate theories, and to suggest new hypotheses. | 13 | |
| 34539290 | Critical Thinking | The process of assessing claims and making judgments on the basis of well-supported evidence. | 14 | |
| 34539291 | Data | Numbers that represent research findings and provide the basis for research conclusions. | 15 | |
| 35092055 | Diffusion of responsibility | when you see other bystanders you experience this and it lowers the cost of not helping | 16 | |
| 35093279 | Discrimination | is the differential treatment of various groups that can be the behavioral component of prejudice | 17 | |
| 35093280 | Elaboration Likelihood model | states that a message may change a person's attitude through a peripheral or central route | 18 | |
| 35093281 | Empathy- Altruism Theory | proposes that helping is often a result of empathy with the person in need of help | 19 | |
| 35093282 | Environmental psychology | is the study of how people's behavior is affected by the environment in which they live | 20 | |
| 35093283 | Frustration- Aggression Hypothesis | suggest that stress produces a readiness to act aggressively but that aggression will occur only if there are cues in the environment that are associated with an aggressive response. it also proposes that the direct cauyse of most aggression is negative affect | 21 | |
| 35093284 | Fundamental attribution error | is the tendency to attribute the behavior of others to internal factors | 22 | |
| 35093285 | Group | two or more figures forming a complete unit in a composition | 23 | |
| 35098821 | task-oriented leader | a leader who provides close supervision, leads by directions and generally discourages group discussion | 24 | |
| 35098822 | temporal comparison | usings one's previous performance or characteristics as a basis for judging ones self in the present | 25 | |
| 35103252 | norms | behavioral expectations and cues | 26 | |
| 35103812 | mere exposure effect | the more often we are exposed to something, the more we like it; explains why we like familiar things and people | 27 | |
| 35103979 | matching hypothesis | The idea that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners. | 28 | |
| 35104211 | individualism | giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications | 29 | |
| 35104229 | impression formation | The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them. | 30 | |
| 35104318 | helping behavior | Any act that is intended to benefit another person. | 31 | |
| 35104412 | group think | The tendency for members of a cohesive group to reach decisions without weighing all the facts, especially those contradicting the majority opinion. | 32 | |
| 35104716 | group polarization | tendency of people to make more extreme decisions when they are in a group | 33 | |
| 35126891 | self-schemas | mental representations that people form for themselves | 34 | |
| 35126892 | self-serving bias | the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal characteristics while blaming one's failures on external causes | 35 | |
| 35127748 | situation attribution | an attribution theory is a social psychology theory developed by Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley, Edward E. Jones and Lee Ross | 36 | |
| 35127749 | social cognition | mental processes associated with people's perception of, and reactions to, other people | 37 | |
| 35127750 | social comparison | using other people as a basis of comparison for evaluating oneself. | 38 | |
| 35127751 | social dilemmas | situations in which actions that produce rewards for one individual will produce negative consequences if adopted by everyone | 39 | |
| 35127752 | social facilitation | a phenomenon in which the presence of others improves a person's performance | 40 | |
| 35127753 | social identity | the beliefs we hold about the groups to which we belong | 41 | |
| 35175076 | obedience | A behavioral change in response to a demand from an authority figure | 42 | |
| 35175077 | person attribution | attributing the cause for behavior to something internal to the individual | 43 | |
| 35175078 | person-oriented leader | A leader who shows concern for their subordinates and are warm and supportive | 44 | |
| 35175079 | pluralistic ignorance | A situation in which an individual holds an opinion, but mistakenly believes that the majority of his/her peers hold the opposite position | 45 | |
| 35175080 | prejudice | A positive or negative attitude towards an entire gorup of people | 46 | |
| 35175081 | prisoner's dilemma | A socail dilemma in which mutual cooperation guarentees the best outcome | 47 | |
| 35175082 | prosocial behavior | When someone acts to help another person, particularly when they have no goal other than to help someone | 48 | |
| 35175083 | reference group | Catagories of people to which people compare themselves to | 49 | |
| 35368525 | collectivism | giving priority to the goals of one's groups (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly | 50 | |
| 35368526 | competition | behavior in which individuals try to attain a goal for themselves while denying that goal to others | 51 | |
| 35368527 | compliance | adjusting ones behavior because of an explicit or implicit request | 52 | |
| 35368528 | conflict | the result of a persons or groups belief that another person or group stands in the way of their goal | 53 | |
| 35368529 | conformity | changing ones behavior or beliefs to match those of others, generally as a result of real or imagined though unspoken, group pressure | 54 | |
| 35368530 | contact hypothesis | idea that stereotypes and prejudice toward a group will diminish as contact with the group increases | 55 | |
| 35368531 | cooperation | only type of behavior in which people work together to attain a goal | 56 | |
| 35368532 | correlational method | a research method used to establish the degree of relationship (correlation) between two characteristics, events, or behaviors | 57 | |
| 35368533 | deindividuation | a psychological state occuring in group members that results in loss of individuality and a tendency to do things not normally done when alone | 58 | |
| 35582744 | social impairment | a reduction in performance due to the presence of other people | 59 | |
| 35582745 | social influence | the process whereby one person?s behavior is affected by the words or actions of others | 60 | |
| 35582746 | social loafing | exerting less effort when performing a group task than when performing the same task alone | 61 | |
| 35582747 | social perception | the processes through which people interpret information about others, draw inferences about them, and develop mental representations of them | 62 | |
| 35582748 | social psychologist | a psychologist who studies how people and social situations affect the individual person | 63 | |
| 35582749 | social psychology | the study of how people?s thoughts, feelings, and behavior influence, and are influenced by, the behavior of others | 64 | |
| 35582750 | stanley milgram | 1933-1984; obedience study: wanted to see how far individuals would go to be obedient(shock study) | 65 | |
| 35582751 | stereotypes | false assumptions that all members of some group share the same characteristics | 66 | |
| 35732637 | relative deprivation | perception of an unfair disparity between one's situation and that of others. | 67 | |
| 35732638 | resource dilemma | situation in which people share a common resource creating conflicts personal and group interests | 68 | |
| 35732639 | roles | people act in accordance with a special social role that provides socially acceptable reasons | 69 | |
| 35732640 | self-concept | way one thinks of themselves | 70 | |
| 35732641 | self-esteem | evaluation one makes of themselves of how worthy they are as human beings | 71 | |
| 35732642 | self-fulfilling prophecy | initial impression of someone leads to behavior in accordance with that impression | 72 | |
| 35732643 | self-perception theory | theory suggesting that attitudes can change as people consider situations and infer what their attitude must be | 73 |
