Social Psychology
The bystander effect most likely occurs because of…
What is the diffusion of responsibility?
People’s desire to help others even if the costs outweigh the benefits of helping.
What is altruism?
Holding stereotypes and harboring prejudice that may lead to acts such as excluding, or out-right mistreatment of a group
What is discrimination?
The term for when a person gets a person to agree to bestow a small favor or to buy a small item, only to later request a larger favor
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
The theory that changes in behavior are more often due to factors of the situation than factors of personality.
What is situationism?
To be considered bullying, it needs to be..
What is a repeated behavior?
When humans are prevented from achieving an important goal, they may experience..
What is frustration aggression?
The defense mechanism where someone creates a logical, inaccurate explanation for an action or feeling.
What is rationalizing?
What is the psychological discomfort arising from holding 2 or more inconsistent attitudes or behaviors.
What is cognitive dissonance?
What is self talk and looking at the ways in which we think about ourselves.
What is intrapersonal?
What is the capacity to understand another person’s perspective? To feel what they feel.
What is empathy?
The act of blaming an out-group when the in-group experiences frustration.
What is scapegoating?
The change of an individual’s behavior to comply with a demand by an authority figure.
What is obedience?
What is a person’s knowledge about the sequence of events expected?
What is script?
What is speaking with others and inter group relationships?
What is interpersonal?
What is the single most influential factor in determining with whom you become friends?
What is proximity?
The feeling about a group of people that may influence negative treatment of that group.
What is prejudice?
A change in a person’s behavior to go along with a group, even if he/she does not agree with the group
What is conformity?
We tend to value goals and achievements that…
What is we put a lot of effort into?
Sternberg states that a healthy relationship will have 3 components of love (intimacy, passion, and commitment). What is this known as?
What is consummate love?
What is seeking to cause harm to another person?
What is aggression?
A group that we identify with or see ourselves as belonging to
What is the in-group?
In the USA people tend to have the belief that people get the outcomes they deserve. What is this hypothesis?
What is the Just-world hypothesis?
Term for having a tendency to explain our successes due to internal characteristics, but to explain failures as due to external factors.
What is the self serving bias?
What is romantic love?