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Chapter 16 -- Social Psychology
Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions (pp. 673-679)
1. Social Psychologists:
2. Attribution Theory (Fritz Heider):
3. Fundamental Attribution Error:
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4. What cultures do not make the fundamental attribution error as much?
5. Self-Serving Bias:
6. Attitudes:
7. Peripheral Route Persuasion:
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8. Central Route Persuasion:
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9. Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon:
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10. Your book doesn’t mention this concept, but Robert Cialdini has also researched “door-in-the-face technique”
as a method of persuasion. In this technique, the persuader attempts to convince someone to comply with a
request by first making an extremely large request that the respondent will obviously turn down – with a
door in the face! This makes the person more likely to agree to a second, more reasonable request. Calvin is
trying to implement this technique with his mom. 
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11. Social Role:
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12. Summarize Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment.
13. Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Theory:
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Social Influence: Conformity and Obedience (pp. 680-686)
1. Chameleon Effect:
2. Conformity:
3. Summarize Asch’s Conformity Experiments:
4. List four reasons that make people more likely to conform.
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Remember that CONFORMITY and COMPLIANCE are different!
Compliance means to change your behavior because of a DIRECT REQUEST.
Conformity is when you change your behavior because of an UNSPOKEN, SOCIAL PRESSURE.
5. Normative Social Influence:
6. Informative Social Influence:
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7. Summarize Milgram’s Obedience to Authority Experiments:
8. Explain how the foot-in-the-door effect is part of Milgram’s experiment results.
9. How did Milgram’s Obedience Study violate today’s psychological regulations and code of ethics?
Social Influence: Group Influence (pp. 687-691)
1. Social Facilitation:
2. How does the difficulty of tasks impact our performance in front of others?
SOCIAL FACILITATION: When performance is ENHANCED because of the presence of the group.
SOCIAL INHIBITION:
When performance is HINDERED because of the presence of the group.
3. Social Loafing:
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4. What three things cause social loafing?
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5. Deindividuation:
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6. Group Polarizaiton:
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7. Groupthink:
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8. What is the difference between social control and personal control?
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9. What is minority influence?
10. Culture:
11. Norms:
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Social Relations: Prejudice and Discrimination (pp. 691-697)
1. Prejudice:
2. Prejudice is a three part mixture of
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3. Stereotypes:
4. Ethnocentrism:
5. Discrimination:
6. Give an example of how subtle prejudice lingers even though overt prejudice might be gone.
7. Just-World Phenomenon:
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8. Ingroup:
9. Outgroup:
10. Ingroup Bias:
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11. Scapegoat Theory:
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12. Other-Race Effect:
Aggression (pp. 698-705)
1. Aggression:
2. What are the three levels of biology involved in aggression?
3. What parts of the brain are involved in human aggression?
4. What chemical/ hormone influences aggression?
5. Frustration-Aggression Principle:
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6. Explain the social script example of the rape myth.
7. Social Scripts:
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8. After reading the section “Do Video Games Teach, or Release, Violence?” what do you believe? Do
violent video games cause teenagers to become more violent?
Attraction (pp. 705-712)
1. Proximity:
2. Mere Exposure Effect:
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3. List four different aspects to attractiveness:
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4. What does the Reward Theory of Attraction say?
5. Passionate Love:
6. Companionate Love:
7. Equity:
8. Self-Disclosure:
Altruism, Conflict, and Peacemaking (pp. 712-719)
1. Altruism:
2. Explain what happened to Kitty Genovese:
3. Describe Darley & Lante’s research. What three things did they discover?
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4. Bystander Effect:
5. Social Exchange Theory:
6. Reciprocity Norm:
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7. Social-Responsibility Norm:
8. Conflict:
9. Social Traps:
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10. Mirror-Image Perceptions:
11. Self-fulfilling Prophecy:
12. Superordinate Goals:
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13. Describe Mazafer Sherif’s study. How did Sherif use superordinate goals to unite the boys?
14. GRIT Strategy:
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