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Group Influence
Attitudes and Actions
Social Influence
How we feel about others
Miscellaneous
100
It is when one performs better in front of an audience than she would alone.
What is social facilitation?
100
It's power to influence behavior was displayed when students at Stanford agreed to be part of a 2 week prison experiment.
What is role-playing?
100

Group polarization is most likely to occur in a group in which: A. two subgroups of individuals have opposing opinions. B. individuals share similar opinions. C. each individual has a unique perspective. D. individuals have not formed any opinion.

B. individuals share similar opinions.

100

We are more likely to commit the fundamental attribution error when evaluating:

 A. our own behavior. 

B. the behavior of others.

C. the behavior of a group. 

D. we are equally likely in each of the above situations.

B. the behavior of others.

100

Your beliefs about people, groups, ideas, or activities.

What are attitudes?

200
It is when a group of like-minded people get together to discuss an issue, this may occur.
What is group polarization?
200
If we are the ones doing the action, we tend to emphasize these.
What are external factors?
200
It is what happens when someone alters their actions or thoughts to fit in with a group of peers.
What is conformity?
200

According to attribution theory, we tend to explain human behavior by crediting either a person's ______________ or the situation.

Disposition

200

This type of research examines a relationship between two variables.

What is Correlation?

300
It is when people may privately be concerned about an issue, but in order to avoid conflict, they do not express their concern.
What is groupthink?
300
An example is when one asks his parent do borrow the keys to pick something up at the store, then calls and says since he is already out, can he keep the car for a few hours?
What is foot-in-the-door?
300
It is the kind of influence that is displayed when someone decides to turn on their car lights because several other people do it.
What is informational social influence?
300

A fundraiser group calls and asks if you would like to donate $100 to their cause. You refuse because you are a poor college student and $100 is too much money. Then they say, "How about $10?" This seems reasonable so you donate the $10. This is an example of ______________.

What is Door in the Face?

300

During this stage of cognitive development, children understand conservation concepts and can think logically.

What is Concrete Operational Stage?

400
It's when someone decides not to put too much effort into something, because his partners will do it for him.
What is social loafing?
400
He was the person who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
400
His study focused on whether or not a person would change their answer to an obvious question if he saw his peers provide the wrong answer.
Who was Solomon Asch?
400

This uncomfortable feeling occurs when your behavior does not align with your attitudes.

What is Cognitive Dissonance?

400

This part of the brain serves as the sensory relay station for all senses except smell.

What is the Thalamus?

500
An example is when normally shy and reserved Sam went to a concert and danced and sang at the top of his lungs.
What is deindividuation?
500
Also known as internal attribution, this is what it is called when someone attributes an action to personal characteristics.
What is dispositional attribution?
500
It is the percentage of people who were willing to deliver a shock at the highest intensity when told to do so by an experimenter.
What is 66%?
500

you expect that you or another person will behave in some way, so you act in ways to make your prediction come true. What is this concept?

What is Self-fulfilling Prophecy?

500

Little Albert being afraid of all white fluffy animals after being classically conditioned to be afraid of a white rat is an example of this learning concept.

What is Stimulus Generalization?