AP Psychology: Social Psychology flashcards

Question 1

What term describes explaining other people's actions by internal causes but your own actions by the situation?

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Actor-observer bias

Question 2

What is it called when you underrate the situation's power and lean too much on internal factors to explain behavior?

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Fundamental attribution error

Question 3

What term describes crediting yourself with internal causes for good outcomes and blaming outside circumstances for bad ones?

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Self-serving bias

Question 4

What term names the belief that people end up with the outcomes they deserve?

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Just-world hypothesis

Question 5

What term names the discomfort felt when your behavior or beliefs clash with a positive view of yourself?

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Cognitive dissonance

Question 6

What term describes changing your behavior to go along with a group, even though you disagree with it?

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Conformity

Question 7

What term describes changing your behavior to please an authority figure or avoid unpleasant consequences?

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Obedience

Question 8

What term describes group members shifting their opinions toward what they think the group consensus is?

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Groupthink

Question 9

What term describes a group's original attitude growing stronger after members discuss their views?

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Group polarization

Question 10

What term describes a person putting in less effort in a group because individual work cannot be judged apart from the group?

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Social loafing

Question 11

What term describes a witness who does not step in to help a victim or someone in distress?

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Bystander effect

Question 12

What term describes how nobody in a group helps because the duty to help is shared among everyone?

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Diffusion of responsibility

Question 13

What term names voluntary behavior meant to help other people?

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Prosocial behavior

Question 14

What term describes negative actions toward people because of their membership in a particular group?

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Discrimination

Question 15

What term names beliefs about individuals based only on group membership, whatever their personal traits?

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Stereotype

Question 16

What is a group called that you identify with or see yourself as belonging to?

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In-group

Question 17

What is a group called that you do not belong to and see as basically different from you?

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Out-group

Question 18

What term describes preferring your own group over other groups?

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In-group bias

Question 19

What term names blaming an out-group when your own group is frustrated or blocked from a goal?

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Scapegoating

Question 20

What persuasion technique asks for a small favor first, then later requests a bigger one?

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Foot-in-the-door technique

Question 21

What term describes a group's expectations about which thoughts and behavior are appropriate for its members?

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Social norm

Question 22

What term describes a socially defined pattern of behavior expected of someone in a given setting or group?

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Social role

Question 23

What term means a positive or negative evaluation of, or feeling about, a person, an idea or an object?

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Attitude

Question 24

What term describes the process of changing an attitude through some form of communication?

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Persuasion

Question 25

Which persuasion route uses logical arguments with data and facts?

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Central route persuasion

Question 26

What term names going along with a group norm so as to be accepted, fit in and feel good?

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Normative social influence

Question 27

What term describes conforming to a group norm because you believe the group is competent and has the right information?

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Informational social influence

Question 28

What term describes aggression motivated by anger, with the intent to cause pain?

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Hostile aggression

Question 29

What term describes aggression motivated by reaching a goal, not necessarily by an intent to cause pain?

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Instrumental aggression

Question 30

What term names the perspective that behavior is determined by the immediate environment and surroundings?

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Situationism

Question 31

Which perspective holds that internal factors, such as temperament and personality traits, determine behavior?

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Dispositionism

Question 32

What term names a culture centered on autonomy and the achievement of the individual?

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Individualistic culture

Question 33

What term names a culture that focuses on communal relationships with family, friends and community?

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Collectivist culture

Question 34

What are the three components in the triangular theory of love?

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Intimacy, passion and commitment

Question 35

What term names what a person knows about the order in which events happen in a particular setting?

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Script

Question 36

What term names sharing personal information in relationships?

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Self-disclosure

Question 37

What term names the field of psychology that examines how people affect each other, with special focus on the power of the situation?

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Social psychology

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