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Group Influence
Attitudes and Actions
Social Influence
How we feel about others
Miscellaneous
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This is a factor affecting conformity, making it more likely that people will conform when there are more people present.

What is group size?

100

This was displayed by the participants in Asch's conformity experiment who gave the wrong answer even though they knew it was wrong.

What is normative influence?

100
He created an experiment to determine how willing people are to follow an authority figure.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
100

It is generally described as a negative attitude towards a group of people.

What is prejudice?

100

This is displayed when someone says to themselves: "I won the match! It must be because I'm talented and train so much harder than other people."

What is self-serving bias? 

200

This is a factor affecting conformity, making it more likely that people will conform when everyone gives the same answer.

What is unanimity?

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

This theory could be illustrated by a person who says "She's running late. She's so careless and irresponsible."

What is the fundamental attribution error?

200

This is displayed when someone arrives late and says to themselves "It wasn't my fault. The traffic was terrible."

What is actor-observer bias OR self-serving bias?

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
It was displayed when a blue-eyed boy in Mrs. Elliott's class said that she should keep her yard stick close by in case the brown-eyed kids acted up.
What is in-group bias?
300

This is displayed when someone treats a person differently because they belong to a particular group.

What is discrimination?

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

It is when a person forms his or her opinion of a person based on one positive attribute, such as their appearance.

What is the halo effect?

400

This is displayed when people in a minority group fail to achieve high marks at school because there is a stereotype that they're not smart.

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

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

An example of this attribute would be if a person walks in to a new job confidently, with shoulders back and taking long strides.

What is body language?

500

This is the way in which we form impressions of people based on our first encounter with them.

What is person perception?