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Terms from week 10

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Social Psychology   show
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show The need to belong; motivation to be accepted by others  
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show The assumption that someone else is going to help/act in a situation  
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show The more people in a situation, the less pressure someone feels for acting/taking responsibility  
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show Ambiguity in the situation causes worry that other people will judge you  
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Pluralistic ignorance   show
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show The altering of one's opinions or behaviors to match those of others or social norms  
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Social norms   show
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Descriptive social norms   show
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Injunctive/prescriptive social norms   show
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Informational influence   show
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Normative influence   show
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show When group decision making is impaired because of the desire to reach or maintain consensus  
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Compliance   show
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show A change in behavior due to a direct request from an authority figure  
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Asch's conformity experiment   show
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show Perceived doctor ordered subject to administer shocks to see how far the subject would go to be obedient while "hurting" and innocent person  
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Attribution   show
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Dispositional attributions   show
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Situational attributions   show
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show Tendency for people to overemphasize dispositional attributes (character traits) even when situational attributes clearly explain the behavior  
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Actor-observer bias   show
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Self-serving bias   show
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show Cognitive schema for identifying social groups; easy information processing on people based on their membership to stereotypes; overgeneralization  
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Prejudice   show
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show Unjust treatment of people based on social membership; behavioral bias  
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Steps to overcome biases   show
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Door-in-the-face technique   show
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Foot-in-the-door technique   show
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Low-balling technique   show
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show Automatically making assumptions that attractive people have other good attributes to them  
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show Making snap judgements and assumptions based on very limited amounts of information  
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fundamental attribution error   show
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show Performing better at something because there are other people around  
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show Performing worse/not attempting something because there are other people around  
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Deindividuation   show
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