STUDY GUIDE: UNIT 14 – SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
AP Psychology
In addition to the information in this study guide, you are also responsible
for all of the content in textbook (Chapter 16), all information from class
notes/discussions, videos, handouts and graphic organizers.
It’s AP – it’s all fair game 
Terms & Concepts
All terms & concepts on page 721
(Terms & concepts are also listed on the back of the APP April calendar)
Big Ideas: Chapter 16
1: How do we tend to explain others’ behavior and our own?
 Attribution theories
2: Does what we think affect what we do, or does what we do affect what we think?
 Attitudes & actions
 Role playing
 Stanford Prison Study (P. Zimbardo)
3: What do experiments on conformity and compliance reveal about the power of social
influence?
 Acsh Conformity Study
 Milgram Obedience Study
 Individual Resistance
4: How is our behavior affected by the presence of others or by being part of a group?
 Social facilitation
 Social loafing
 Deindividuation
5: What are group polarization and groupthink?
6: How much power do we have as individuals? Can a minority sway a majority?
7: What is prejudice?
 3 components of prejudice
 Race
 Gender
8: What are the social and emotional roots of prejudice?
 Ingroup & outgroup
9: What are the cognitive roots of prejudice?
10: What biological factors make us more prone to hurt one another?
 Genetic Influences
 Neural Influences
 Biochemical Influences
11: What psychological factors may trigger aggressive behavior?
 dealing with aversive events
 learning aggression is rewarding
 observing models of aggression
 acquiring social scripts
12: Why do we befriend or fall in love with some people but not others?
 Proximity
 Physical attractiveness
 Similarity
13: How does romantic love typically change as time passes?
 Romantic love vs. companionate love
14: When are we most –and least- likely to help?
 Altruism
 Bystander effect
15: How do social traps and mirror-image perceptions fuel social conflict?
16: How can we transform feelings of prejudice, aggression, and conflict into attitudes that
promote peace?
 Superordinate goals
 Communication
 GRIT