Social Psychology
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The effect of another person’s presence on
one’s performance. People usually perform
simple or well-learned tasks better in front
of others and difficult or unfamiliar tasks
worse in front of others.
What is social facilitation?
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The tendency for members of a cohesive
group to reach decisions without weighing
all the facts, especially those contradicting
the majority opinion.
What is groupthink?
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The tendency for people to work less on a
task the greater the number of people are
working on that task.
What is social loafing?
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The tendency for members of a cohesive
group to make more extreme decisions due
to the lack of opposing views.
What is group polarization?
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A phenomenon where individuals do not
offer help in an emergency situation when
other people are present.
What is the bystander effect?
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The tendency to overestimate internal
factors and underestimate external factors
when explaining the behaviors of others.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
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This occurs when people attribute their
successes to internal or personal factors but
attribute their failures to situational factors
beyond their control.
What is the self-serving bias?
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This theory states that a person tends to
explain his own behavior and the behavior
of others by assigning attributes to these
behaviors.
What is the attribution theory?
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In this type of attribution, people infer that
an event or a person’s behavior is due to
personal factors such as traits, abilities, or
feelings.
What is internal attribution (or
dispositional attribution)?
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Inferring that an event or behavior is due to
temporary factors.
What is unstable attribution?
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This is the most important (and most
obvious) factor in establishing attraction. We
like those who are close to us.
What is proximity (or closeness)?
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This reason for attraction states that people tend to
like others who like them back.
What is reciprocity?
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This reason for attraction maintains that
people tend to relate their opinions about
other people with their current state. For
example, if a man meets another person
while in a bad mood, he may have negative
feelings toward the new person because of
his bad mood.
What is association?
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This theory states that people tend to like
novel stimuli more if they encounter them
repeatedly.
What is the mere exposure effect?
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This theory states that people tend to pick
partners who are about equal in level of
attractiveness to themselves.
What is the matching hypothesis?
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The power to punish.
What is coercive power?
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This type of power results from experience
and education.
What is expert power?
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This type of power is granted by an
authority figure.
What is legitimate power?
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This type of power comes from
admiration or respect.
What is referent power?
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This type of power comes from the
ability to offer awards for behavior.
What is reward power?
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In this type of study, both the experimenter
and the participant do not know if the
participant is receiving the actual treatment
or the placebo treatment.
What is a double blind study?
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This parenting style focuses on setting
reasonable rules and expectations while
encouraging communication and
independence.
What is authoritative parenting?
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This is a condition that occurs after a period
of negative consequences where a person
begins to believe he or she has no control.
What is learned helplessness?
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This is another name for the sense of taste.
What is gustation?
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This portion of the brain contains the visual
cortex and plays a major role in the
interpretation of visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
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Final Jeopardy
She was stabbed to death while being watched
by 38 people. Her story is a vivid example of
the bystander effect.
Who is Kitty Genovese?
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Sources
•Most information taken from
http://allpsych.com/psychology101/
•Information on the bystander effect, the self-serving
bias, and Kitty Genovese taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/
•Information on internal and unstable attribution, the
matching hypothesis, and the mere exposure effect
taken from
http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/psych101/so
cialpsychology/