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Title: social psychology
Description: unit four exam, social psychology
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Created: 2011-12-13
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    • Side 3
    • social psychology
    • the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
    • Attribution theory
    • the theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the persons disposition.
    • Dispositional vs situational attribution
    • Wether a persons behavior is attributed to internal dispositions or external circumstances.
    • 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.
    • Attitudes
    • feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
    • Cognitive dissonance theory
    • the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thought (cognition) are inconsistent.
    • Chameleon effect
    • the unintentional physical and verbal mirroring between people who are getting along well
    • Conformity
    • adjusting ones behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
    • conditions that affect conformity
    • one feels insecure, in a group of at least three people, the group is unanimous.
    • normative social influence
    • Influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval
    • informational influence
    • influence resulting from ones willingness to accept others opinions about reality
    • obedience
    • the tendency to comply with the commands of those in authority.
    • conditions that affect obedience
    • People are more likely to obey authority figures with prestige than those without, as well as when physically in the presence of an authority figure
    • Compliance: foot-in-the-door phenomenon
    • the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request comply later with a larger request.
    • social loafing vs social facilitation
    • 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.
      facilitation- Stronger responses on a simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others.
    • deindividuation
    • the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occuring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
    • group polarization
    • the enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussio within the group.
    • groupthink
    • the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
    • Aggression
    • any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy
    • modeling and social scripts
    • modeling- the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior.
    • frustration-aggression principle
    • the principle that frustration creates anger, which can generate aggression.
    • interpersonal attraction: factors that affect attraction
    • proximity, physical attractiveness, similarity.