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AP Psych Unit 12
2023- 2024, Social Psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Psychologist | studies how we think, influence and related to eachother |
| Attribution Theory | do we attributes behaviors to traits of situation |
| Situation Attribution Theory | nurture and enviorment |
| Disposition Attribution Theory | nature and genes |
| Fundamental Attribution | underestimates the situation and overestimating personal disposition |
| Self Serving Bias | percieving oneself favorably |
| Actor-Observer Bias | always negative, how we explain thing that happen to ourselves as external facots and to others as internal factors |
| Attitude | feelings drive us to respond to a situation/person |
| attitude | can affect actions |
| Central Route to Persuation | when we use hard facts, and statistics |
| Peripheral Route to Persuation | when we use glamours things, such as celebs or aesthetics to influence others PERFUME ADS |
| Foot in Door | start with small request and build up to larger one |
| Door in Face | start with large request so smaller one seems more resonable |
| Norm of Reporocity | you do something for me, i will do something for you |
| role-play | norms about social position how people should behave |
| conformity | adjusting behaviors to group standard |
| Chameleon Affect | naturals tendicy to imitate another person |
| Soloman Ash | conformity study where he asked which line is the same length as another |
| Ash Affect | if someone is unsure about their judgement, theyll listen to others and conform |
| conditions of conformity | if someone is insecure, group of at least three people, no prior comintment and is it is in public |
| Normatively Social Influences | avoid rejection and gain approval |
| Informational Social Influence | accept others opinions - they must know more |
| Milgram Experiement | asked why germans took part in the holocost |
| Milgrams Lesson | ordinary people can be corrupted by evil situations |
| Social Facilitation | improved performance in the presence of others |
| Social Inhibitions | decreased performance with something not practiced |
| Social Loafing | people put forth less effort in a group then on their own |
| Deindivuation | loss of self awareness and restrain in groups |
| Group Polarization | the enhancement of beliefs through group discussions, new channels |
| Groupthink | desire for harmony, group overrides a realistic appraisal |
| sterotypes | generalized beliefs about a group of people |
| prejudice | unjustifiable negative attitude |
| descrimination | negative behaviors about a group |
| Just World Phenomenom | believes world is just and therefore people get what they deserve |
| Ingroup | people we share common identify |
| Outgroup | different from us |
| Scapegoat Theory | outlet for anger by providing someone to blame, example is Japanese internement camp |
| Other race theory | greater recognition of our own race when faced by other races |
| Aggression | physical or verbal intent to hurt someone |
| Instrumental Aggression | acts purposefully to achieve purpose or goal - no emotion drive |
| Frustration Aggresion Prinicple | goals are blocked causing frustration and anger |
| Social Script | not sure how to act, we take the script from social media and videogames |
| Proximity | more likely to like someone when close to them |
| Mere Exposure Affect | repeated expose to something breeds liking |
| Physical Attractiveness | people who are attractive are healtheir, happier, more honest and successful |
| Evolutionary Psychology | men-fertility, women-maturity |
| Golden Ration | perfect face, average face |
| Matching Hypothesis | we end up with people at the same intelligence, attractiveness and wealth |
| Similarity | opposites don't attract, end up with same people |
| Reward Theory Attribution | we like people whose behavior is rewarding to us |
| Expectancy Value | weighing the potential value of a relationship against expectation of success |
| Reciprocal Liking | more likely to like someone who likes you |
| Passionate Love | arousal state |
| Companion Love | affectionate compassion |
| self-disclosure | sharing personal info |
| Alturism | willingness to help others without personal gain |
| Bystandard Affect | less likely to help if others are present |
| Diffusion of Responsibility | more people share responsibility for helping, less likely to help |
| Social Exchange Theory | maximize benefits, minimize cost |
| Social Responsibility Norm | expectation that people will help who need help |
| Conflict | perceiving incompatibility and goals |
| Social Trap | people rationalize the pursuit of self interest, mutual destruction |
| Self Fulfilling Prophecy | beliefs lead to its own doing |
| Sherif Camp Study | in order to get people together they need a common goal |
| Superordinate Goal | shared goals that overrides difference among people require their cooperation to achieve such |
| GRIT | decreases international tensions in theory, doesnt actually work in real life |