Psych Final Exam Ch. 16
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Attribution | a persons explanation for their own behavior and the behavior of others |
| Situational Cause | action was caused by environment |
| Dispositional Cause | action was caused by your personality |
| Fundamental Attribution Error | We explain our behaviors and other people's behaviors differently |
| When do attitudes influence behavior? | when you expect a favorable outcome, when the attitudes are repeatedly expressed |
| Foot-in-the-door phenomenon | tendency to agree to a large request if you have already agreed to a smaller one |
| Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Simulation | Social Roles "prison guard" or "prisoner", abuse of power |
| Cognitive Dissonance Theory | things you know are wrong but you do it anyways, makes you uncomfortable/bad, you do things to make yourself feel better ex.) ether change thinking or action |
| Chameleon Effect | when we unconsciously mimick other |
| Asch Line Study | you tend to go with the group even if you think the answer is wrong |
| When are people most likely to conform? | # of people in the group increases, if the group is unanimous, if a person feels insecure |
| Normative Social Influence | gain approval/avoid disapproval |
| Informational Social Influence | accept other's opinions |
| Milgrams Obedience Study | teach word pairs, administer "shock" if incorrect |
| Why do people obey? | legitimate authority figure, victim is depersonalized, no one else is going against the authority figure |
| Social Facilitation | better performance in front of groups for an easy task |
| Social Loafing | less effort exerted when in a group |
| Factors that influence attraction | similar attitudes and beliefs, how good looking they are, how close they live to you |
| Mere Exposure Effect | the more you see something, the more you like it |
| Altruism | when someone is willing to risk something no reward |
| Bystander Effect | likelihood of helping decreases as number of bystanders increases |
| Diffusion of Responsibility | personal responsibility is lower with increasing numbers |
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