Chapter 6
This attribution states that we like to explain a person's behavior due to their personal characteristics.
Internal Attribution
What type of social influence occurs when someone conforms to a group because they want to be liked, accepted, or avoid rejection?
Normative social influence
What hormone is commonly known as the "love hormone"
Oxytocin
What phenomenon occurs when people are less likely to help someone in need when other people are present?
Bystander effect
Who is your instructor for this class?
Dr/Professor Vang
What is the tendency to explain our own behavior using situational factors while explaining other people's same behavior using dispositional factors?
Actor-Observer Bias
What three factors make a minority group more likely to influence the beliefs or behaviors of the majority?
What are consistency, confidence, and perceived motives?
What attachment style describes someone who constantly worries about being abandoned and frequently seeks reassurance from their partner?
Anxious attachment
What phenomenon explains why individuals feel less personally responsible for helping someone when other people are also present?
Diffusion of Responsibility
When is my office hours?
MW: 2:30pm-5pm
What occurs when someone incorrectly identifies the cause of their feelings or behavior, attributing them to the wrong source?
Misattribution
What is the term for changing one's behavior to match the behavior of a group?
Conformity?
What is the "secret ingredient" in relationships that suggests both partners should contribute a fair and equal amount of effort and work?
Equity
Which psychologists developed a model in 1970 explaining the decision-making steps people go through before helping someone in an emergency?
Latané and Darley
Where is my office location?
Brown Hall 205B
We make more internal attribution about someone when there are known situational factors going on.
Augmenting Principles
In this famous conformity experiment, participants were asked to identify which line matched a standard line. However, confederates intentionally gave incorrect answers to see whether participants would conform to the group's response. What is this study?
Asch's conformity experiment (Asch Paradigm)
What attachment style describes someone who is comfortable with intimacy, trusts others, and maintains healthy relationships?
Secure attachment
What is the term for helping another person without expecting anything in return?
Altruism
What is my university email?
mvang1@svsu.edu
In Kelley’s Covariation Model, what concept examines whether other people behave the same way toward the same situation?
Consensus
In Milgram's obedience experiment, which participant role was played by a confederate who pretended to receive electric shocks?
Learner
What four factors commonly influence interpersonal attractions?
Physical attractiveness, similarity, proximity, and emotion
What step is knowing the correct assistance?
Intervene
What is my office phone number?
989-964-4000