Attribution, Attitudes and Actions
The man who proposed Attribution Theory.
Who is Fritz Heider?
Doing minimal effort in a group setting.
What is social loafing?
Any physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone physically/emotionally.
What is aggression?
Generalized beliefs about a group of people.
What are stereotypes?
Rules for accepted and expected behavior.
What are norms?
The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
What is social psychology?
The process when one loses self awareness/self restraint.
What is deindividuation?
A factor that increases our threshold for aggressive behavior.
What is biology? / What is experience?
The tendency to favor our own group.
What is in-group bias?
Studied conformity.
Who is Solomon Asch?
When someone sees a beautiful/famous person in an advertisement, they buy the product.
What is peripheral route persuasion?
What Philip Zimbardo's prison experiment showed the effects of.
What is role-playing?
Explains the intense positive absorption of romantic love.
What is the 2 factor theory of emotion?
You get what you deserve.
What is just-world phenomenon?
When people reciprocate the action of another person. (ex. contagious yawning)
What is the Chameleon effect?
These factors affect our attributions.
What are culture, situation, and personal traits?
Created Group-Think
Who is Irving Janis?
The 3 ways that increase someones liking for a person.
What are similarity, proximity, and reciprocal thinking?
Theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.
What is scapegoating?
A test conducted where students and teachers test following orders from a person of authority.
A school cafeteria lists benefits of eating food and value pricing of available options to make you buy the food.
What is central route persuasion?
If a group is likeminded, discussion strengthens its prevailing opinions.
What is group polarization?
Social culture influences that interact to produce aggressive behaviors.
What is exposure?
The best explanation for why Carl, an African American man, was better able to describe the African American robber than the caucasian robber who was with him.
What is the other-race effect?
When we conform to gain approval.
What is normative social influence?