Social Thinking

Saying that people whose houses were destroyed by a tornado are at fault for choosing to live in a disaster-prone area or for not building a stronger house.

• Social Loafing

• Situational Attribution

• Just World Phenomenon

• Self Serving Bias

Thinking another runner on the Badger trail is weak an untrained but not realizing that they have already completed running 20 miles. This is:

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• The Self Serving Bias

• Self Fulfilling Prophecy

• Deindividuation

John slips and drops grape juice on Rachel’s new white carpet. Rachel doesn’t blame John. Instead, Rachel assumes that John slipped because the carpet was uneven. Rachel is making

• a personal attribution

• a situational attribution

• no attribution

• a dispositional attribution

I enter the party believing that I’m good with people I don’t know and expecting to make new friends, I'm likely to be more outgoing & people will likely respond amiably to my friendliness and I may indeed make new friends.

• Situational Attribution

• Counterfactual Thinking

• Self Fulfilling Prophecy

• Self Serving Bias

Feelings, often based on our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events are called

• deindividuations

• norms.

• attitudes.

• attributions.

First agreeing to a small request tends to make it more likely that you will later agree to a larger request. This is known as the

• Obedience

• fundamental attribution error.

• just world phenomenon.

• foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

When Bob became a college professor instead of a high school teacher he started to wear suits and ties to work and speak with a larger vocabulary even in social circles. His understanding of how he should behave with this new job influenced his actions this is an example of...

• attribution theory

• self serving bias

• role playing

• group polarization

Conformity is best described as

• performing simple tasks more quickly in the presence of others.
• adjusting our behavior or thinking toward a group standard.
• neglecting critical thinking in order to preserve group harmony.
• losing self-awareness in group situations that foster anonymity.

Following the instructions or orders of an authority figure. 

• Obedience
• Conformity
• Mere Exposure Effect
• Central Route of Persuasion

The mental stress or discomfort caused ban individual experiencing inconsistency between thoughts and actions. 

• Cognitive Dissonance
• Groupthink
• Deindividuation
• Attitude