Definitions
The study of how people influence others’ behaviour, beliefs, and attitudes.
What is social psychology?
He is the psychologist who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
The tendency to alter behaviour because of group pressure.
What is conformity?
When people are less likely to help someone in need when others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
A student assumes that people from a certain country are unfriendly before ever meeting them.
What is prejudice?
Assigning a cause to someone’s behaviour.
What is attribution?
He is a social psychologist known for research on obedience using electric shock experiments.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
Following instructions from someone with authority.
What is obedience?
The reduction in feelings of personal responsibility when others are present.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
Someone believes that all members of a particular group are bad at math.
What is stereotype?
The tendency to overestimate personality influences and underestimate situational ones.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The psychologist who developed cognitive dissonance theory.
Who is Leon Festinger?
Engaging in unusual behaviour when people feel anonymous or lack personal responsibility.
What is deindividuation?
The helping others for unselfish reasons.
What is altruism?
A store owner refuses to hire someone because they belong to a certain ethnic group.
What is discrimination?
A mental discomfort caused by holding two conflicting beliefs
What is cognitive dissonance?
The two psychologists who proposed the Need-to-Belong Theory.
Who are Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary?
A decision-making problem where the desire for group harmony overrides critical thinking.
What is groupthink?
The tendency for people to put in less effort when working in groups.
What is social loafing?
A person consistently supports people from their own sports team and dislikes rival teams regardless of individual behaviour.
What is in-group bias?
An outbreak of irrational behaviour spread through social contagion.
What is mass hysteria?
Anthropologist who proposed the idea that humans can maintain about 150 stable relationships.
Who is Robin Dunbar?
A persuasion strategy that begins with a small request followed by a larger one.
What is foot-in-the-door technique?
Error of assuming others do not perceive a situation the same way we do in emergencies.
What is pluralistic ignorance?
Someone sees a few members of a group behave badly and concludes that the entire group must be naturally lazy or irresponsible.
What is the ultimate attribution error?