Group Influence
Attitudes and Actions
Social Influence
How we feel about others
Miscellaneous
100
It is when one performs better in front of an audience than she would alone.
What is social facilitation?
100
It's power to influence behavior was displayed when students at Stanford agreed to be part of a 2 week prison experiment.
What is role-playing?
100
He created an experiment to determine how willing people are to follow an authority figure.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
100
It is generally described as an unjustifiable attitude towards a group of people.
What is prejudice?
100
When one makes a "mental videotape" of how one should act in a certain situation, she is creating this.
What are social scripts?
200
It is when a group of like-minded people get together to discuss an issue, this may occur.
What is group polarization?
200
If we are the ones doing the action, we tend to emphasize these.
What are external factors?
200
It is what happens when someone alters their actions or thoughts to fit in with a group of peers.
What is conformity?
200
This theory could be illustrated by a person who says "Boy, these prisoners must have done something pretty terrible to be treated this badly."
What is just-world-phenomenon?
200
It is displayed when someone who is suffering from very high temperatures has little patience and resorts to violence.
What is the frustration-aggression principle?
300
It is when people may privately be concerned about an issue, but in order to avoid conflict, they do not express their concern.
What is groupthink?
300
An example is when one asks his parent do borrow the keys to pick something up at the store, then calls and says since he is already out, can he keep the car for a few hours?
What is foot-in-the-door?
300
It is the kind of influence that is displayed when someone decides to turn on their car lights because several other people do it.
What is informational social influence?
300
It was displayed when a blue-eyed boy in Mrs. Elliott's class said that she should keep her yard stick close by in case the brown-eyed kids acted up.
What is in-group bias?
300
It is what is created when one person does what is good for him, while another person does what is best for her, and their goals compete with one another.
What is a social trap?
400
It's when someone decides not to put too much effort into something, because his partners will do it for him.
What is social loafing?
400
He was the person who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
400
His study focused on whether or not a person would change their answer to an obvious question if he saw his peers provide the wrong answer.
Who was Solomon Asch?
400
It is when a person forms his or her opinion of a group of people based on one experience with an individual who represents that group.
What is a vivid case?
400
Twin studies that show a correlation between identical twins and aggressive tendencies suggests that aggression is affected by what?
What are genes?
500
An example is when normally shy and reserved Sam went to a concert and danced and sang at the top of his lungs.
What is deindividuation?
500
Also known as internal attribution, this is what it is called when someone attributes an action to personal characteristics.
What is dispositional attribution?
500
It is the percentage of people who were willing to deliver a shock at the highest intensity when told to do so by an experimenter.
What is 66%?
500
An example of this theory would be if a man who just lost his job blames the new guy who was hired last month for why he lost his job.
What is scapegoat theory?
500
It is demonstrated when two people who have worked closely together for years fall in love.
What is the mere-exposure effect?
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