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AP Psych Unit 12
2023- 2024, Social Psychology
Term | Definition |
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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 |