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| 9702406984 | attribution theory | a description of the way in which people explain the causes of their own and other people's behavior | 0 | |
| 9702406985 | fundamental attribution error | tendency to attribute others' behavior to their dispositions and our own behaviors to our situations | 1 | |
| 9702406986 | self-serving bias | he tendency to assign oneself credit for successes but to blame failures on external forces | 2 | |
| 9702406987 | attitude formation | direct contact, direct instruction, interaction with others, vicarious conditioning | 3 | |
| 9702407023 | The Relationship Between Attitudes and Behaviors | 4 | ||
| 9702406988 | self-fulfilling prophecy | an expectation that causes you to act in ways that make that expectation come true | 5 | |
| 9702406989 | foot-in-door phenomenon | the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later to a larger request | 6 | |
| 9702407024 | central/peripheral route to persuasion | 7 | ||
| 9702406990 | cognitive dissonance | unpleasant mental experience of tension resulting from two conflicting thoughts or beliefs | 8 | |
| 9702406991 | conformity | adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard | 9 | |
| 9702406992 | obedience | changing one's behavior at the command of an authority figure | 10 | |
| 9702406993 | social facilitation | a phenomenon in which we perform simple or well-learned tasks better when in the presence of others | 11 | |
| 9702406994 | social loafing | the tendency for people to put less effort into a simple task when working with others on that task | 12 | |
| 9702406995 | bystander effect | the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present | 13 | |
| 9702406996 | deindividuation | when immersion in a group causes people to become less concerned with their personal values | 14 | |
| 9702406997 | group polarization | tendency of group members to move to an extreme position after discussing an issue as a group | 15 | |
| 9702406998 | groupthink | A situation in which group members seek unanimous agreement despite their individual doubts | 16 | |
| 9702406999 | self-fulfilling prophecy | an expectation that causes you to act in ways that make that expectation come true | 17 | |
| 9702407000 | mere exposure effect | phenomenon in which repeated exposure to a stimulus makes us more likely to feel favorably toward it | 18 | |
| 9702407001 | passionate love | an experience involving feelings of euphoria, intimacy, and intense sexual attraction | 19 | |
| 9702407002 | companionate love | the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined | 20 | |
| 9702407003 | equity | a condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it | 21 | |
| 9702407004 | self-disclosure | the act of revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others | 22 | |
| 9702407005 | altruism | unselfish regard for the welfare of others | 23 | |
| 9702407006 | bystander effect | the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present | 24 | |
| 9702407025 | Antosocial/prosocial behaviors | 25 | ||
| 9702407026 | frustration-aggression hypothesis | 26 | ||
| 9702407007 | gender | the personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male | 27 | |
| 9702407008 | Race | A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance. | 28 | |
| 9702407009 | ethnicity | affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture | 29 | |
| 9702407010 | prejudice | A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority. | 30 | |
| 9702407011 | stereotype | a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing | 31 | |
| 9702407012 | discrimination | Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group. | 32 | |
| 9702407013 | ingroup | a group that one belongs to and identifies with | 33 | |
| 9702407014 | Outgroup | People who are not part of the ingroup. | 34 | |
| 9702407015 | ingroup bias | the tendency to favor one's own group | 35 | |
| 9702407016 | scapegoat theory | theory that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame | 36 | |
| 9702407017 | just-world phenomenon | the tendency for people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve | 37 | |
| 9702407018 | superordinate goals | shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation | 38 | |
| 9702407027 | Culture | 39 | ||
| 9702407019 | individualism | a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control. | 40 | |
| 9702407020 | collectivism | giving priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly | 41 | |
| 9702407021 | cross-cultural research | research involving the exploration of the extent to which people differ from one culture to another | 42 | |
| 9702407028 | culture-specific | 43 | ||
| 9702407022 | locus of control | extent to which people believe that reinforcers and punishers lie inside or outside their control | 44 |
