Theories and Hypotheses
The prevalent debate that explores the extent to which genetics and environment influence human development and behavior.
What is nature vs. nurture?
The scientific study of how a person’s behavior, thoughts and feelings are influenced by the real, imagined or implied presence of others.
What is Social Psychology?
This type of psychologist studies how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence of others.
What is a social psychologist?
Where Sherif conducted the summer camp experiment.
What is Robbers Cave State Park?
How you think about others.
What is social cognition?
Individuals are more likely to form committed relationships with those who are of similar social desirability.
A mental framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information.
What is schema?
After acing a test, a student attributes their success to their intelligence and hard work, but blames a poor grade on the difficulty of the exam or bad luck.
What is self-serving bias?
What Asch's line experiment was about.
Public conformity.
How others change you.
What is social influence?
Intergroup conflict, prejudice, and discrimination arise from competition between groups for limited resources.
What is realistic conflict theory?
Feelings influenced by beliefs.
What are attitudes?
Bandura's social learning theory was tested with this toy.
Bobo doll
The C in the ABC triad.
What is cognition?
When a person underperforms due to their group membership being made salient to them.
What is stereotype threat?
The discomfort we feel when our thoughts and behaviors are inconsistent with one another.
What is cognitive dissonance?
A persuasion technique involving having a person to agree to a small request first and a larger request later.
Psychologist who studied obedience.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
We attribute someone's behavior to internal causes (their personality, intelligence, morality) instead of external causes like the situation.
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
A cognitive bias where a positive impression of a person, product, or company in one area influences opinions or feelings in other unrelated areas.
What is halo effect?
A psychological phenomenon where a belief or expectation about a situation or person leads to behaviors that cause the belief to come true.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
A republican politician who makes a public statement agreeing with a democratic opponent is likely to feel what?
What is cognitive dissonance?
Zimbardo's controversial study.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
A generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members.
What is stereotype?