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AP Psychology
Mr. K. Franklin
Chapter 18
Name
JEOPARDY
Influencing our behavior
Fund. Attribution Error
The tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the situation when
observing others.
Attitudes
Beliefs and feelings that predispose our responses.
Foot n’ door phenomenon The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply
later with a larger request.
Roles affecting behavior
Zimbardo’s prison study showed the importance of this on our behavior.
Cognitive Dissonance
Reducing inner tension by changing our attitudes to justify our actions.
Alright, Alright!
Individualistic
Soloman Asch
Gain approval / avoid rejection
Obedience
Social facilitation
Conformity rates tend to be lowest in what type of cultures?
He was the first psychologist to study conformity.
Why does the phenomenon called normative social influence happen?
What were Stanley Milgram’s classic studies involving fake shocks designed
to study?
The tendency to do better when others are present.
Group Influences
Ingroup bias
What is it called when students think their school is better than others?
Just world phenomenon
The eagerness to believe that people get what they deserve.
Social loafing
The tendency for people to exert less effort when their working in a group.
Deindividuation
When people storm the field and tear down the goal posts after an exciting
win by their football team. What is this called?
Self-fulfilling propheciesIf a teacher believes that boys will do better than girls in math and then treats
the boys in in a preferential way which leads them to do better…what does
this best illustrate?
Words and Terms
Prejudice
Aggression
Stereotypes
Scapegoat theory
An unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members.
Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.
A generalized belief about people or groups.
Theory that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to
blame.
Limbic Syst./ Amygdala What part of the lower brain is involved with aggression?
Odds and Ends
Mere exposure effect
Alcohol-testost-frustration
Altruism
Bystander effect
Social trap
If a person is continually exposed to something novel and then begins to like
it, this is called what?
Identify one factor that can lead to increased aggression.
Unselfish regard for the welfare of others.
Tendency for the observer of an emergency to withhold aid when a number
are witnesses to it.
If a whaler reasons that the few whales they take will not endanger the
species, and other whalers reason this way, and it leads to the
endangerment of the species, what have they fallen into?