Topic 1
People's tendency to behave in ways that confirm their own expectations or other's expectations
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
Negative feelings, opinions, and beliefs associated with stereotypes.
What is Prejudice?
People's evaluations of objects, events, or ideas
What is Attitudes?
When the mere presence of others improves performance
What is social facilitation?
Expected standards of conduct, which influence behavior
In explaining other people's behavior, the tendency to overemphasize personality traits and underestimate situations
What is fundamental attributions error?
Subtle forms of prejudice that coexist with the rejection of racist beliefs
What is Modern racism?
The active and conscious effort to change an attitude through transmission of a message
What is Persuasion?
The tendency for people to work less hard in a group than when working alone
What is social loafing?
The tendency to agree to do things requested by others
What is compliance?
People's explanations for why events or actions occur that refer to people's internal characteristics, such as abilities, traits, moods, or efforts.
What is Personal Attributions?
The innapropriate and unjustified treatment of people based on the groups they belong to
What is Discrimination?
Ease or difficulty of retrieving an attitude from memory
What is attitude accessibility?
An uncomfortable mental state due to a contradiction between two attitudes or between an attitude and a behavior
What is cognitive dissonance?
When a person follows the orders of a person of authority
What is obedience?
When interpreting our own behavior, the tendency to focus on situations rather than personality traits
What is Actor/Observer Bias?
An attitude that a person is consciously aware of and can report
What is explict attitude?
A method of persuasion that uses high elaboration, where people pay attention to the arguments and consider all the information in the message. This message usually results in development of stronger attitudes
What is a Central route?
A state of reduced individuality, reduced self-awareness, reduced attention to personal standards; this phenomenon may occur when people are a part of a group
What is Deindividuation?
Any behavior that invovles the intention to harm someone else
What is agression?
People's explanations for why events or actions occur that refer to external events, such as the weather luck, accidents, or other people's actions
What is Situational Attributions?
An attitude that influences a person's feeling and behavior at an unconscious level
What is Implict Attitude?
A method of persuasion that uses low elaboration, where people minimally process the message. This method usually results in the development of weaker attitudes.
What is peripheral route?
The altering of your own behaviors and opinions to match those of other people or to match other people's expectations
What is conformity?
What is frustration-agression hypothesis?