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| 6110574274 | social psychology | the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another | 0 | |
| 6110575230 | attribution theory | the theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition | 1 | |
| 6110576023 | dispositional attribution | personality; judging one's actions based on perceived personality | 2 | |
| 6110578704 | situational attribution | reaction to an event; judging one's actions based on perception of the effects of a situation | 3 | |
| 6110585772 | attitude | feelings that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events. | 4 | |
| 6110586352 | 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 | 5 | |
| 6110590324 | actor observer bias | actor = blame on the situation observer = blame on the disposition | 6 | |
| 6110591018 | self-serving bias | beneficial to only ourselves and our own purposes | 7 | |
| 6110673160 | central route persuasion | attitude change path in which interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts | 8 | |
| 6110673851 | peripheral route persuasion | attitude change path in which people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's attractiveness | 9 | |
| 6110674362 | foot-in-the-door phenomenon | the tendency for people | 10 | |
| 6110672466 | role | a set of expectations about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave | 11 | |
| 6110695648 | Zimbardo | Stanford Prison Experiment/Lucifer Effect - Role Playing: People take on the role of what they feel are proper for the situation | 12 | |
| 6110696244 | cognitive dissonance | A state of tension produced when an individual experiences conflict between attitudes and behavior. | 13 | |
| 6110697066 | cognitive dissonance theory | the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent | 14 | |
| 6110701989 | festinger | Cognitive dissonance (mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values) | 15 | |
| 6110702798 | Abu Ghraib prison situation | a toxic situation can make even good apples go bad | 16 | |
| 6110702799 | chameleon effect | Unconsciously mimicking others' expressions, postures, and voice tones helps us feel what they are feeling. | 17 | |
| 6110703909 | mood linkage | sharing up and down moods | 18 | |
| 6110705369 | conformity | Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. | 19 | |
| 6110759033 | Asch | Conformity experimements; | 20 | |
| 6110760067 | conditions that strengthen conformity | 1. 3 or more in a group 2. group is unanumous 3. one admires | 21 | |
| 6110779583 | normative social influence | influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval | 22 | |
| 6110800949 | informative social influence | influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality | 23 | |
| 6110856270 | obediance | compliance that occurs when people follor direct commands, usually from someone in a position of authority position | 24 | |
| 6110912262 | Miligram (NEED TO FIX) | obediance | 25 | |
| 6110912263 | social facilitation | Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others | 26 | |
| 6110913074 | 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. | 27 | |
| 6110942724 | deindividualization | the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity | 28 | |
| 6110942735 | group polarization | The enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group. | 29 | |
| 6110943619 | group think | The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives | 30 | |
| 6110943620 | culture | Behaviors and belief systems that members of a long-standing social group share and pass along to successive generations. | 31 | |
| 6110946662 | preservation of innovation | our species' survival and reproduction by enabling social and economic systems that give us an edge | 32 | |
| 6110948386 | division of labor | a product results from the coordination and commitment of a team | 33 | |
| 6110948387 | norms | Principles of right action, binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide, control, or regulate proper and acceptable behavior. | 34 | |
| 6110949385 | personal space | the buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies | 35 | |
| 6110950459 | social control | a group's formal and informal means of enforcing its norms Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior | 36 | |
| 6110951629 | personal control | the extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless | 37 | |
| 6110957664 | minority influence | the case where a minority of group members influences the behavior or beliefs of the majority the power of one or two individuals to sway majorities | 38 | |
| 6110957665 | prejudice | A rigid attitude that is based on group membership and predisposes an individual to feel, think or act in a negative way toward another person or group. | 39 | |
| 6110961215 | stereotype | A generalized belief about a group of people | 40 | |
| 6110961216 | discriminate | unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members | 41 | |
| 6110965286 | 5 factors of automatic prejudice | 1. implicit racial associations. 2. unconscious patronization. 3. race influenced perceptions. 4. seeing black. 5. reflexive bodily responses | 42 | |
| 6110966917 | blame the victim dynamic | the tendency to blame an innocent victim of the misfortune for having somehow caused the problem or for not having taken steps to avoid or prevent it | 43 | |
| 6110968542 | social identity | the "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships | 44 | |
| 6110968543 | ingroup | "Us" - people with whom one shares a common identity | 45 | |
| 6110969390 | outgroup | "them" - those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup | 46 | |
| 6110969391 | ingroup bias | the tendency to favor our own group | 47 | |
| 6110977439 | scapegoat theory | the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame | 48 | |
| 6110982257 | outgroup homogeneity | we recognize how greatly we differ from other individuals in our groups | 49 | |
| 6110983123 | other-race effect | the tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than face of other races | 50 | |
| 6110984828 | 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 | 51 | |
| 6111077628 | hindsight bias | the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it | 52 | |
| 6111077629 | aggression | any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy | 53 | |
| 6111079805 | genetic influences of aggression | increased risk based on relatedness | 54 | |
| 6111080927 | neural influences on aggression | amygdala (processes aggression/fear), hypothalamus (responsible for hormone production), frontal lobe (involved in speaking, muscle movements, & making judgments/plans) | 55 | |
| 6111097782 | biochemical influences of aggression | Hormones and other substances (alcohol, drugs, etc.) in the blood stimulate the neural systems that control aggression. Research has shown that although humans are less sensitive than animals to hormonal changes, violent criminals tend to be young, muscular males with lower-than-average intelligence scores, higher-than-average testosterone levels, and low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin (Dabbs & others, 2001a; Pendick, 1994). High testosterone correlates with irritability and heightens dominance and aggressiveness (Dabbs & others, 2001b; Harris, 1999). Alcohol use has also shown to increase aggressive responses (Bushman, 1993). | 56 | |
| 6111099810 | frustration-aggression principle | the principle that frustration- the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal- creates anger which can generate aggression | 57 | |
| 6111102566 | social and cultural influences of aggression | aggression may be a natural response to aversive events, but learning can alter natural reactions | 58 | |
| 6111104320 | aggression replacement program | Teaching communication skills, training them to control anger, encouraging moral reasoning works to reduce aggression by training individuals in social competence, moral reasoning, and aggression control. | 59 | |
| 6111107391 | observing models of aggression | People can also learn aggression by observing models who act aggressively | 60 | |
| 6111107392 | social scripts | mental tapes for how to act, provided by ones culture | 61 | |
| 6111108772 | video games and violence | expressing anger breeds more anger, and practicing violence breeds more violence | 62 | |
| 6111110186 | catharsis hypothesis | idea that we feel better if we "blow off steam" | 63 | |
| 6111142556 | proximity | Closeness | 64 | |
| 6111145757 | mere exposure effect | the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them | 65 | |
| 6111170744 | physical attraction | attraction to someone's physical appearance The number one thing that happens in a relationship, the initial attraction | 66 | |
| 6111156848 | similarity and attraction | the more things two people have in common, the more likely they are to have a longer relationship The more people are alike, the more the attraction is likely to endure. Similarity breeds content. | 67 | |
| 6111174568 | reward theory of attraction | the theory that we like those whose behavior is rewarding to us or whom we associate with rewarding events | 68 | |
| 6111171681 | passionate love | an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship | 69 | |
| 6111173863 | companionate love | the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined | 70 | |
| 6111171682 | equity | A condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it. | 71 | |
| 6111186063 | self disclosure | revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others | 72 | |
| 6111186064 | Altruism | Unselfish regard for the welfare of others | 73 | |
| 6111187322 | darley and latane | proposed that there were two factors that could lead to non-helping: social influence and diffusion of responsibility | 74 | |
| 6111188966 | diffusion of responsibility | reduction in sense of responsibility often felt by individuals in a group; may be responsible for the bystander effect | 75 | |
| 6111191165 | bystander effect | The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present. | 76 | |
| 6111191166 | social exchange theory | the theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs | 77 | |
| 6111195332 | reciprocity norm | an expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them | 78 | |
| 6111198267 | social-responsibility norm | an expectation that people will help those dependent upon them | 79 | |
| 6111201990 | conflict | A perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas. | 80 | |
| 6111201991 | social traps | a situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior | 81 | |
| 6111204002 | mirror image perception | 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 | 82 | |
| 6111204938 | self-fulfilling prophecies | a belief that leads to its own fulfillment | 83 | |
| 6111207901 | superordinate goals | shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation | 84 | |
| 6111207902 | GRIT | Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension-Reduction - a strategy designed to decrease international tensions | 85 | |
| 6111208860 | Door-in-face | a strategy in which someone makes a large, unreasonable request with the expectation that a person will refuse but will be more likely to respond favorably to a smaller request later | 86 | |
| 6111208861 | ethnocentrism | Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group. | 87 | |
| 6111264947 | contact theory | contact between hostile groups will reduce animosity, but only if the groups are made to work toward a goal that benefits all and necessitates the participation of all (superordinate goal) | 88 | |
| 6111266525 | instrumental aggression | aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain | 89 | |
| 6111266526 | hostile aggression | aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inflicting pain or injury | 90 | |
| 6111271469 | relational aggression | form of indirect aggression prevalent in girls, involving spreading rumors, gossiping, and using nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation a hostile or destructive act designed to cause harm to a person's relationships | 91 | |
| 6111273778 | pluralistic ignorance | error of assuming that everyone in a group perceives things as we do | 92 | |
| 6111273779 | hawthorn effect | when people know that they are being observed, they change their behavior to what they think the observer expects or to make themselves look good | 93 | |
| 6111275072 | social impairment | negative influence of others on performance | 94 |
