Ch 13 Study Guide
What is social psychology?
What are attributions? Dispositional/internal attributions? Situational/external
attributions?
What is attribution theory?
What is the fundamental attribution error? Why does it occur?
What are attitudes? How do attitudes relate to actions?
What is cognitive dissonance? What is cognitive dissonance theory?
What are social norms? see text
What is conformity? Compliance? Obedience?
What happened in the Asch conformity studies?
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon? The door-in-the-face phenomenon?
What happened in Milgram’s standard obedience study?
What were the results of Milgram’s study? What was one of the most powerful
influences on obedience in Milgram’s studies (as discussed in class)?
What was the main conclusion of Milgram’s studies?
What is the chameleon effect? see text
What is deindividuation?
What is social loafing? See text
What is group polarization?
What is groupthink? Under what conditions is groupthink most likely to occur? How can
it be avoided?
What are stereotypes? What is prejudice? What is discrimination?
How is prejudice a legitimizing ideology?
What are overt attitudes? implicit attitudes? What do measures of implicit attitudes
reveal about prejudice?
What is meant by ingroup and outgroup? What is outgroup homogeneity?
What are some phenomena that contribute to prejudice as discussed in class (for
instance - illusory correlations, confirmation bias, in-group favoritism, learning,
scapegoating, social inequalities, just-world phenomenon, hindsight bias, blaming the
victim, ignorance of one’s own privilege)? How do these phenomena contribute to
prejudice?
What is the bystander effect? How does the case of Kitty Genovese relate to the
bystander effect? What is diffusion of responsibility?
What are some other factors involved in helping?
What is the mere-exposure effect?
How does love tend to change over the course of time (in terms of passionate and
companionate love)?
What is the frustration-aggression principle? What evidence indicates a link between
temperature and aggression? see text
What are social scripts and how might the scripts provided by the media influence
sexual and/or aggressive behavior? See text
What does research indicate regarding the effects of exposure to pornography? P. 508,
407
What are mirror-image perceptions?
What does the GRIT strategy entail?
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