Key Terms - Part deux
Intentional injury of or harm to another person
What is aggression?
Theory that attempts to explain why we behave the way we do
What is attribution theory?
The main take away from this study was that social roles are powerful determinants of human behavior
What is the Zimbardo (Stanford) prison experiment?
Thoughts and expectations about individuals based solely on their membership in a group
What is a stereotype?
influence of the group majority on an individual’s judgment
What is the Asch effect? (or Peer/social pressure)
Changing behavior and/or attitudes in order to fit in with other people
What is conformity?
Belief that people that we meet are similar to us
What is assumed similarity bias?
Found that many people are willing to provide an incorrect estimation of a line’s length in order to conform to the unanimous opinion expressed by confederates
What is Asch's conformity study?
Feelings and attitudes towards an entire group (typically negative)
What is prejudice?
type of persuasion involves an indirect route that relies on association of peripheral cues to associate positivity with a message
What is peripheral route?
Release of aggression
What is catharsis?
Assuming someone with certain positive qualities has positive traits across the board
What is the halo effect?
Study of compliance in which participants were willing to shock confederates for giving incorrect answers based on orders from the experimenter
What is Milgram's study on obedience?
Treating people differently based on group membership
What is discrimination?
type of persuasion involves logic-driven arguments using data and facts to convince people of an argument’s worthiness
What is central route?
Individuals whose behavior is observed and then copied
What are models?
those attributions that enable us to see ourselves in favorable light
What is self-serving bias?
Children observing an adult hit an inflatable doll were more likely to exhibit similar behavior later
What is Bandura's bobo doll experiment?
Interacting with others in a way that increases the likelihood that they in turn act in a way that meets your expectations
What is a self-fulfilling prophesy?
Tendency to like those who like us
What is reciprocity of liking effect?
Helping another without regard to benefits or costs to you
What is altruism?
Tendency to interpret others’ behavior as dispositional in nature and underestimate situational factors
What is fundamental attribution error?
Famous case used to study diffusion of responsibility in which this woman was stabbed multiple times and nobody intervened despite hearing her pleas for help
What is Kitty Genovese?
Subfield of social psychology that explores possible neurological underpinnings of social behavior such as prejudice
What is social neuroscience?
Branch of psychology that focuses on work and job-related issues
What is industrial organizational psychology?