Definitions
An expectation held by a person that alters their behavior in a way that tends to make it true.
What is Self-fulling prophecy
The hypothesis that people get the outcomes they deserve.
What is the Just-world hypothesis
This psychologist created an experiment to test the conformity of people in a group setting.
Who is Solomon Asch
An experiment in which there was one naive subject while the rest of the subjects were confederates who purposely gave the wrong answer.
What is the Asch’s Experiment
An effect in which the influence of the group majority effects an individual’s judgement.
What is the Asch Effect
The strengthening of an original group attitude after the discussion of views within a group.
What is Group Polarization
The theory that proposes that love can be described from combinations of three components: Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment.
What is Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
This psychologist tested the degree subjects are willing to obey authority.
Who is Stanley Milgram
A 1971 experiment in which a group of students were divided into two groups to test social roles, social norms, and scripts.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment
When a witness does not volunteer to help a person in distress based on the social situation.
What is the Bystander Effect
A practice in which a persuader gets a person to agree to a small favor in order to request a larger favor.
What is Foot-in-the-door technique
The theory that states we are keeping a tally of the costs and benefits of forming and maintaining a relationship with others.
What is Social Exchange theory
This psychologist developed the theory that when we experience a conflict in our behaviors, attitudes, or beliefs that goes against our positive self-perceptions, we experience psychological dissonance.
Who is Leon Fesinger
This experiment involved participants being told they were to teach other students correct answers to a series of test items.
What is the Stanley Milgram’s Experiment
The tendency to explain our successes as due to dispositional characteristics, but to explain our failures as due to situational factors.
What is Self-Serving Bias
The view that our behavior is determined by our immediate surroundings.
What is Situationism
Altruism, empathy, and serving our egos are all aspects of which set of theories.
What is Theories on the Motivation to Help
These researchers described the phenomenon in which a witness does not help a person in distress, and instead watch what is happening.
Who are Latane and Darley
A popular model that describes the dynamics of persuasion.
What is the Elaboration Likelihood Model
Results in Prejudice and discrimination due to being perceivced as different and less preferred.
In-Group Bias
An individual’s tendency to attribute another’s actions to their character or personality, while attributing their behavior to external situational factors outside of their control.
What is the Fundamental attribution error
When people are frustrated, they experience a drive to be aggressive towards the source of their frustration.
What is Frustration Aggression Theory
These researchers conducted a study to determine whether changes in expectations would produce changes in a person’s achievement.
Who are Rosenthal and Jacobson
The idea that an individual can have two different attitudes about something, it can be both an implicit attitude and an explicit attitude.
What is the Dual Attitudes Model
A way to describe the tendency of a person to attribute their own actions to external causes while attributing other people‘s actions to internal causes.
Actor-Observer Bias