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Social Psychology Key Terms
Learning Objectives
• Apply attribution theory to explain
motives (e.g., fundamental attribution
error, self-serving bias).
• Anticipate the impact of behavior on a
self-fulfilling prophecy.
• Discuss attitudes and how they change
(e.g., central route to persuasion).
• Discuss attitude formation and change,
including persuasion strategies and
cognitive dissonance.
• Identify important figures in social
psychology (e.g .Leon Festinger).
• Describe the structure and function of
different kinds of group behavior (e.g.,
deindividuation, group polarization).
• Explain how individuals respond to
expectations of others, including
groupthink, conformity, and obedience to
authority.
• Predict the impact of the presence of
others on individual behavior (e.g.,
bystander effect, social facilitation).
• Identify important figures in social
psychology (e.g., Solomon Asch, Stanley
Milgram)
• Describe the variables that contribute to
altruism, aggression, and attraction.
• Describe processes that contribute to
differential treatment of group members
(e.g., in-group/out-group dynamics,
ethnocentrism, prejudice).
• Articulate the impact of social and
cultural categories (e.g., gender, race,
ethnicity) on self-concept and relations
with others.
Cross-cultural psychology (no AP Course
Description objective associated with this
topic)
Notecard Terms
1. fundamental attribution error
2. actor-observer bias
3. self-serving bias
4. self-fulfilling prophecy
5. false-consensus effect
6. foot-in-door phenomenon
7. door-in-the-face phen0menon
8. central route to persuasion
9. peripheral route to persuasion
10. boomerang effect
11. cognitive dissonance
12. Leon Festinger
13. Counterattitudinal behavior
14. attitude
15. conformity
16. obedience
17. social facilitation
18. social impairment (inhibition)
19. groupthink
20. social loafing
21. bystander effect
22. deindividuation
23. group polarization
24. groupthink
25. self-fulfilling prophecy
26. Solomon Asch
27. Stanley Milgram
28. Phillip Zimbardo
29. mere exposure effect
30. passionate love
31. companionate love
32. equity
33. complementarity
34. self-disclosure
35. altruism
36. diffusion of responsibility
37. pluralistic ignorance
38. bystander effect
39. Kitty Genovese
40. John Darley & Bibb Latané
41. prejudice
42. stereotype
43. discrimination
44. ingroup bias
45. just-world bias
46. superordinate goals
47. individualism
48. collectivism
49.ethnocentrism