Unit 4 Vocabulary - PSY

The perception, storage, and retrieval of information about social interactions.

• Social Cognition

• Attribution Theory

• Groupthink

• Internalization

The process by which we interpret and explain others’ behaviors.

• Attribution Theory

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Diffusion of Responsibility

• Self-Justification

An inclination to over-explain others’ behavior to dispositional and not situational factors.

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Groupthink

• Prejudice

• Deindividuation

Group discussion reinforces the majority’s point of view and shifts opinions to extremes.

• Group Polarization

• Diffusion of Responsibility

• Boomerang effect

• Inoculation effect

Poor group decision making due to emphasizing unity over critical thinking.

• Groupthink

• Group Polarization

• Social Loafing

• Boomerang effect

Represents relationships within a group, especially likes and dislikes between members.

• Sociogram

• Conceptual Map

• Cognition Map

• Attribogram

The presence of others lessens an individual’s feelings of responsibility to act or not act.

• Diffusion of Responsibility

• Deindividuation

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Inoculation effect

The tendency to work less hard when sharing the workload with others.

• Social Loafing

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Diffusion of Responsibility

• Self-Concept

Individuals behave irrationally when there is less chance of being personally identified.

• Deindividuation

• Internalization

• Prejudice

• Attribution Theory

How we see or describe ourselves; our total perception of ourselves.

• Self-Concept

• Self-Justification

• Gender Roles

• Ethnicity