Terms & Definitions
psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual.
What is Social Psychology
Showed that people conform to a group using lines
What is the Asch Line test
This error is show by overemphasizing internal factors as explanations/attributions for the behavior of other people and underestimate the power of the situation.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error
This persuasion route is supported by facts and logic
What is the central or direct route
repeated negative treatment of another person over time.
What is Bullying
belief that people get the outcomes they deserve.
What is the Just World Hypothesis
This type of data focus on numbers rather than adjectives/descriptors
What is the quantitative data
This is shown when nobody helps Mr. Frysinger after he collapses
What is the Bystander Effect
Someone asks you to read a book, then suggests you come live with other people who read that book
What is the foot in the door technique
Behaviors such as bullying, anxiety, and depression
What are antisocial behaviors
process of changing our attitudes toward something based on some kind of communication.
What is persuasion
Showed social norms & roles as well as aggression and working together through a summer camp
What is the Robbers Cave Experiment
taking credit for postive outcome and blaming negative outcomes on some outside cause
What is the self serving bias
The persuasion method that involves emotions and feelings
What is the peripheral route or indirect route
The desire to help others despite the an unequal risk
What is Altruism
a pattern of behavior that is expected of a person in a given setting or group
What is Social Role
Showed the affects of authority in a simulated prison experiment
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment
Belief that good people get what they deserve and bad things happen to bad people
What is the just world hypothesis
Someone asks you to prom and then settle on holding hands
What is the door in the face technique
Behaviors that are intended to help others
What are prosocial behaviors
the common habit of a person taking credit for positive events or outcomes, but blaming outside factors for negative events
What is the Self-Serving Bias
Showed obedience through shocking a subject
What is the Milgram Shock Experiment
Phebe wants to wear her new fur coat despite her objection to animal fur being used
What is cognitive dissonance
Leads to a more permanent change in attitude
What is the Central of direct route
Someone argues that a hotdog is not a sandwich despite the fact they know that a sandwich consists of bread on some meat and or cheese/veggie
What is cognitive dissonance