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13 Cards in this Set
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conformity |
adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard |
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normative social influence |
influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval |
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informational social influence |
influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions abuot reality |
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Solomon Asch's Conformity conditions |
one is amde to feel incompetent; the group has at least three people; the group is unanimous; one admires the group's status; one has made no prior commitments; others in the group observe one's behavior; one's culture strongly encourages respect |
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Stanley Milgrim's observations on obedience |
person giving order close; supported by institution; victim depersonalized; no role models for defiance |
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social facilitation |
stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others |
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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 |
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deindividuation |
the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity |
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group polarization |
the enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations |
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groupthink |
the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives |
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culture |
the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next |
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norm |
an understood rule for accepted and expected bheavior |
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personal space |
the buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies |