Social Psychology

the scientific study of how a person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others

• social psychology

• social cognition

• social influence

• social identification

deals with the ways people think about other people and includes attitudes, impressions, and attributions

• social categoriazation

• social cognition

• social comparison

• social facilitation

the process of explaining one's own behavior and the behavior of others

• aggression

• attitude

• attribution

• altruism

the tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors in determining behavior while underestimating situational factors

• reciprocity f liking

• impression formation

• fundamental attribution error

• peripheral-route technique

a tendency to respond positively or negatively toward a certqain person, object, idea, or situation

• aggression

• altruism

• attribution

• attitude

since of discomfort or distres that occurs when a person's behavior does not correspond to that person's attitudes

• deindividuation

• cognitive difference

• cognitive dissonance

• conformity

type of information processing that involves attending to the content of the message itslf

• message centered processing

• peripheral-route processing

• central-route processing

• source centered processing

asking for a large committment and being refused, and then asking for a smaller commitment

• thats-not-all

• foot in the door

• door in the face

• in-out

changing ones behavior to match other people

• conformity

• compliance

• obedience

• ethnocentrism

the lessining of group members' sense of personal identity and personal responsiability

• cult

• ethnocentrism

• diffusion of individuality

• deindividuation