Any form of behavior that is intended to harm or injure some person, oneself, or an object.
Aggression
100
Affective feelings of liking or disliking toward an object (which can be basically anything) that has an influence on behavior.
Attitude
100
A set of expectations held by society about the ways in which men and women are supposed to behave based on their gender.
Gender Role
100
Occurs when you change your opinions, judgments, or actions because someone in a position of authority told you to.
Obedience
100
Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to match those of other people or a group standard.
Conformity
200
The loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility.
Deindividuation
200
A deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment that results from in-group pressures.
Groupthink
200
Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit.
Discrimination
200
A negative, usually unjustified attitude directed toward people simply because they are members of a specific social group.
Prejudice
200
The process by which people use information to make inferences about the causes of behavior or events.
Attribution
300
The rules for how people should act in a given group or society.
Social Norms
300
Facial movement can influence emotional experience.
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
300
A strong fear of being judged by others and of being embarrassed.
Social Phobia
300
The tendency for people to do better on simple tasks when in the presence of other people.
Social Facilitation
300
The hypothesis that frustration leads to aggressive behavior.
Frustration Aggression Hypothesis
400
People are less likely to take action or feel a sense of responsibility in the presence of a large group of people.
Diffusion of Responsibility
400
The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the decisions that would be made by the members acting alone.
Group Polarization
400
The tendency for people to attribute positive outcomes to personal factors, but attribute negative outcomes to external factors.
Self Serving Bias
400
What's the student teacher's first name?
Pam
400
Having two conflicting or inconsistent cognitions which produce a state of tension or discomfort.
Cognitive Dissonance
500
A prediction that causes itself to come true due to the simple fact that the prediction was made.
Self Fulfilling Prophecy
500
The tendency for people in a group to put less effort into the task when the effort is pooled (when they are all supposed to work on the task) compared to when they are all responsible for their own contributions.
Social Loafing
500
The tendency for an observer, when interpreting and explaining the behavior of another person, to underestimate the situation and to overestimate the personal disposition.
Fundamental Attribution Error
500
Unselfish behaviors or actions done for the sake of someone else.