Social Psychology flash cards

Set: Social Psychology

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	Term	Definition
	Social Psychology	The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
	Attribution Theory	The baby sitter blames the childs hyper active waays on his personality and not the candy from his easter basket.
	Fundemental Attribution Error	Joe's friends underestimated his alchohol abuse.
	Attitude	John has a different feeling about the campaign than Sam.
	Foot-in-door Phenomenon	Larry constantly asks Rick for money ever since the first tiime he let him borrow money.
	Cognitive Dissonance	Jonathon contradicts himself in a dicussion about cars because he actually thinks a hemi is faster but agrees to the small block.
	Conformity	Sue changes her hairstyle because all of her friends were doing it.
	Obedience	Terry's children listen to what she says because of her authority over them.
	Social Facilititation	Kenny works harder when he's with his friends because they are all honor roll students.
	Social Loafing	Asia doesn't participate in group activities because she knows someone will do it for her.
	Deindividuation	E.J. loses his self when he's around fellow gang members.
	Group Polarization	The class debated on the election to make more sense of the polls of 2004.
	Group Think	The mathletes think together to work more efficient.
	Self -fulfilling prophecy	Allen is much better at playing basketball infront of family and friends than by himself.
	Disposition	It was hard to belive that the cheif of police was on a crime spree during the riots.

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