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Social Psychology: The scientific study of how we think about, influence,…
Social Psychology: The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to others.
Group Dynamics
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Social Loafing: Tendency to exert less effort to achieve a goal when we are in a group rather than working alone.
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Social Facilitation: Tendency for people to act differently when they are in the presence of others, than we do when we are alone.
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Groupthink: Occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.
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Altruism: The belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.
Attributions
Attribution Theory: We explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition.
Fundamental Attribution Error: Tendency to overestimate the impact of a situation and overestimate the impact of personal disposition.
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Self-Serving Bias: Attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors
Cognitive Dissonance Theory: We act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent.
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Conformity, Compliance, Obedience
Conformity: Compliance with standards, rules, or laws.
conformity to regulations
Foot-in-the-door: Tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
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Attitudes and change
Mere exposure effect: People tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.
Peripheral route persuasion: Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues such as a speaker's attractiveness.
Central route persuasion: Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.
Informative Social influence: People assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behavior for a given situation
Normative Social Influence: The influence of other people that leads us to conform in order to be liked and accepted by them.
Key Studies
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Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Experiment: Students with blue eyes changed their behavior once they found out they were considered "superior." The same was true with the brown eyed students