The branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influeced by others.
What is Social Psyhcology
100
Relates to how we form impressions of others.
What is Person Perception
100
Are inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behavior, and their own behavior.
What is Attributions
100
Refers to our close relationships with others and those factors which contribute to a relationship being formed.
What is Interpersonal Attraction
100
What occurs when individuals adopt the attitudes or behavior of others because of real or imagined pressure.
What is Conformity
200
__________ occurs when others attempt to change our attitudes.
What is Persuasion
200
The tendency for early information to be considered more important than later information about a person when forming impressions.
What is Primacy Effect
200
The tendancy to attribute other's behavior to internal causes.
What is Fundemental Attribution Error
200
According to the _____________ we tend to fall in love with people whose attractiveness matches our own.
What is Matching Hypothesis
200
What are shared standards of behavior
What is Social Norms
300
The conflict that arises when a person holds two or more attitudes that are inconsistent.
What is Cognitive Dissonance
300
The primacy effect can lead to a ______________ where our expectations influence people to act in ways that confirm our original expectations.
What is Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
300
The tendency to overestimate external causes when explaining our own behavior.
What is Actor-Observer Bias
300
Complete love only happens when all three types of love are represented in a relationship. Sternberg called this complete love ___________.
What is Consummate Love
300
People tend to treat others as they have been treated.
What is Reciprocity Norms
400
What are the three components of attitudes?
What is Cognitive Component, Affective Component, and the Behavioral Component.
400
What theory proposed that people who are frustrated and unhappy about something will choose a relatively powerless group to take the blame for a situation that is not their fault.
What is Scapegoat Theory
400
The tendency to attribute behavior that resultss in a good outcome for us to internal causes and to attribute behavior that results in a bad outcome to external factors.
What is Self-Serving Bias
400
Who proposed the Triangular Theory of Love?
Who is Robert Sternberg
400
Occurs when you go along with a request made of you from a person who does not have specific authority over you.
What is Compliance
500
What are the four basic elements of persuasion?
What is Source, Receiver, Message, and Channel.
500
What theory proposed that we favor the groups to which we belong in order to enhance our self-esteem?
What is Social Identity Theory
500
What are the three factors that influence whether we make internal attributions or external attribution?
What is Consensus, Distinctiveness, and Consistency.
500
What are the components the Triangular Theory of Love consists of?
What is Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment.
500
The Milgram experiment was used to study__________.