Attribution and Biases
What is the tendency to overestimate dispositional influences on others' behavior?
the Fundamental Attribution Error
What is adjusting one’s behavior to align with group standards?
Conformity
Which route to persuasion relies on superficial cues like attractiveness or celebrity endorsement?
Peripheral Route to Persuasion
What is the improved performance on tasks in the presence of others?
Social Facilitation
What is a generalized belief about a group of people?
Stereotype
Attributing someone’s behavior to external circumstances is called?
Situational Attributions
The "Bystander Effect" is less likely when what condition exists?
being alone or in a smaller group
What is the term for a deep processing route that uses logical arguments and evidence?
Central Route to Persuasion
What term describes the reduced effort by individuals when working in a group?
Social Loafing
Negative feelings toward a group based on stereotypes is called?
Prejudice
What is the bias where people attribute their successes to internal factors and failures to external factors?
Self-Serving Bias
What is it called when people are less likely to help because they feel less responsibility in a group?
Diffusion of Responsibility
Asking for a large favor, expecting rejection, and then asking for a smaller one is called?
Door-in-the-Face Phenomenon
What is the loss of self-awareness and restraint in group situations?
Deindividuation
Behavior that takes action to unjustly disadvantage individuals based on group membership is?
Discrimination
What is the tendency to judge others’ behavior as dispositional but one’s own behavior as situational?
Actor-Observer Bias
What social phenomenon occurs when a small request is followed by a larger request?
Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon
What theory explains how attitudes are formed and changed through two processing routes?
Elaboration Likelihood Model
What occurs when group discussions lead to more extreme positions?
Group Polarization
What is behavior intended to benefit others without expecting anything in return?
Altruism
Believing that people get what they deserve reflects which bias?
Just World Phenomenon
Shared objectives that require cooperation between opposing groups are called?
Superordinate Goals
The tendency to stick to one’s initial beliefs even after they are discredited is called?
Belief Perseverance
A faulty decision-making process aimed at maintaining harmony in cohesive groups is called?
Groupthink
The belief that members of other groups are all alike but members in your group are diverse is?
out group homogeneity bias