Social Psychology Flashcards

6491746304	disposition	an internal trait; how someone is "naturally"	0
6491758249	situation	external factors imposed by the environment	1
6491710324	attribution theory	the tendency to explain the behavior of others as an aspect of either an internal disposition or the situation	2
6491878790	fundamental attribution error	the tendency to attribute the behaviors of others to inner dispositions rather than to external situations	3
6491957608	self-serving bias	the readiness to perceive oneself favorably	4
6491974790	attitude	a belief and feeling that predisposes you to respond in a particular way to people, events, and objects	5
6491993289	foot-in-the-door phenomenon	the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request	6
6492092834	role-playing	assuming a set of expectations in a social setting that define how one ought to behave	7
6492097459	Philip Zimbardo	American psychologist whose research focuses on heroism, cult behavior, and shyness; most famous for the Stanford Prison Study	8
6492161496	cognitive dissonance theory	the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent	9
6492301389	conformity	adjusting behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard	10
6492382671	Solomon Asch	social psychologist who researched the circumstances under which people conform	11
6492890415	Stanley Milgram	social psychologist who researched obedience to authority	12
6492928578	obedience	the tendency to comply with orders, implied or real, from someone perceived as an authority	13
6493049967	social norm	an informal understanding that governs the behavior of members of a society	14