Social Psychology
Assuming that a person's behavior is due to their personal trait and not the situation they're in.
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
Daily Double! What movie are the Rodents of Unusual Size from?
What is Princess Bride?
Releasing anger or frustration by expressing your negative emotions
What is catharsis?
Two factors for marital success.
What are endogamy and homogamy?
Change in behavior to go along with the group
What is conformity?
When you expect a person to fulfill a specific role and they do because you expect it of them.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
First impressions are important because ________.
What is first impressions influence the way people perceive you and form opinions about you?
The presence of other people not helping compels you to not intervene in an emergency situation
What is the bystander effect?
____% of marriages end in divorce.
Going along with a wish or a command
Taking personal credit for positive outcomes but external credit for negative ones
What is self-serving bias?
The knowledge or set of assumptions we make about a person or event
What are schemas?
A case wherein a woman was raped and murdered while calling for help. None of her neighbors helped her.
What is the Kitty Genovese case?
The harder it is to be initiated into a group, the more worthwhile/valuable the group is
What is group initiation?
Compliance to authority
What is obedience?
Reasons we choose friends
What is Proximity, physical appearance, approval, similarity, complementarity?
Aggression is the result of blocking a person from attaining a goal
What is Frustration-aggression hypothesis?
Your generations' formative experiences have shaped you in a different way than other generations; this often causes parent-adolescent conflict
What is generational identity?
The desire to avoid conflict leads to irrational or ineffective decision making
What is groupthink?
What are the reward values for friendship?
What is stimulation value, utility value, ego-support value?
_____% of communication is body language.
What is 55%?
Passion, intimacy, commitment.
What is Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Love?
If you agree to a small favor, you'll be more likely to perform a larger favor later on
What is the Foot-in-the-door technique?
After discussing and agreeing on something, everyone's views on the topic get stronger
What is group polarization?