Psychology: Themes and Variations (with Concept Charts and InfoTrac), 6th Edition
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| 169178170 | Argument | One or more premises used to provide support for a conclusion. | 0 | |
| 169178171 | Attachment | A close, emotional bond of affection between infants and their caregivers. | 1 | |
| 169178172 | Attitudes | Orientations that locate objects of thought on dimensions of judgment. | 2 | |
| 169178173 | Attributions | Inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behavior, and their own behavior. | 3 | |
| 169178174 | Behavior | Any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism. | 4 | |
| 169178175 | Bystander effect | A paradoxical social phenomenon in which people are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone. | 5 | |
| 169178176 | Channel | The medium through which a message is sent. | 6 | |
| 169178177 | Cognitive dissonance | A psychological state that exists when related cognitions are inconsistent. | 7 | |
| 169178178 | Collectivism | Putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to. | 8 | |
| 169178179 | Commitment | An intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise. | 9 | |
| 169178180 | Companionate love | Warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one's own. | 10 | |
| 169178181 | Concordance rate | The percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder. | 11 | |
| 169178182 | Conditioned response (CR) | A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. | 12 | |
| 169178183 | Conditioned stimulus (CS) | A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. | 13 | |
| 169178184 | Confirmation bias | The tendency to seek information that supports one's decisions and beliefs while ignoring disconfirming information. | 14 | |
| 169178185 | Conformity | The tendency for people to yield to real or imagined social pressure. | 15 | |
| 169178186 | Defensive attribution | The tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way. | 16 | |
| 169178187 | Discrimination | Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group. | 17 | |
| 169178188 | Empiricism | The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation. | 18 | |
| 169178189 | Ethnocentrism | The tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways. | 19 | |
| 169178190 | External attributions | Ascribing the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints. | 20 | |
| 169178191 | Foot-in-the-door technique | Getting people to agree to a small request to increase the chances that they will agree to a larger request later. | 21 | |
| 169178192 | Fundamental attribution error | Observers' bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others' behavior. | 22 | |
| 169178193 | Gender stereotypes | Widely held beliefs about males' and females' abilities, personality traits, and behavior. | 23 | |
| 169178194 | Group | Two or more individuals who interact and are interdependent. | 24 | |
| 169178195 | Group cohesiveness | The strength of the liking relationships linking group members to each other and to the group itself. | 25 | |
| 169178196 | Group polarization | A phenomenon that occurs when group discussion strengthens a group's dominant point of view and produces a shift toward a more extreme decision in that direction. | 26 | |
| 169178197 | Groupthink | A process in which members of a cohesive group emphasize concurrence at the expense of critical thinking in arriving at a decision. | 27 | |
| 169178198 | Hindsight bias | The tendency to mold one's interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out. | 28 | |
| 169178199 | Illusory correlation | A misperception that occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen. | 29 | |
| 169178200 | Individualism | Putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships. | 30 | |
| 169178201 | Internal attributions | Ascribing the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings. | 31 | |
| 169178202 | Interpersonal attraction | Positive feelings toward another. | 32 | |
| 169178203 | Intimacy | Warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship. | 33 | |
| 169178204 | Lowball technique | Getting someone to commit to an attractive proposition before revealing the hidden costs. | 34 | |
| 169178205 | Matching hypothesis | The idea that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners. | 35 | |
| 169178206 | Message | The information transmitted by a source. | 36 | |
| 169178207 | Obedience | A form of compliance that occurs when people follow direct commands, usually from someone in a position of authority. | 37 | |
| 169178208 | Outgroup | People who are not part of the ingroup. | 38 | |
| 169178209 | Passionate love | A complete absorption in another that includes tender sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion. | 39 | |
| 169178210 | Person perception | The process of forming impressions of others. | 40 | |
| 169178211 | Prejudice | A negative attitude held toward members of a group. | 41 | |
| 169178212 | Pressure | Expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way. | 42 | |
| 169178213 | Receiver | The person to whom a message is sent. | 43 | |
| 169178214 | Reciprocity | Liking those who show that they like you. | 44 | |
| 169178215 | Reciprocity norm | The rule that people should pay back in kind what they receive from others. | 45 | |
| 169178216 | Script | A type of schema that organizes what people know about common activities. | 46 | |
| 169178217 | Self-serving bias | The tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors. | 47 | |
| 169178218 | Social comparison theory | The idea that people compare themselves with others to understand and evaluate their own behavior. | 48 | |
| 169178219 | Social schemas | Organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people. | 49 | |
| 169178220 | Source | The person who sends a communication. | 50 | |
| 169178221 | Stereotypes | Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. | 51 | |
| 169178222 | Unconditioned response (UCR) | An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. | 52 | |
| 169178223 | Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) | A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. | 53 |
