Social Psychology Vocab

beliefs and feelings about objects, people, and events that lead people to behave in certain ways

• attitude

• conform

• social perception

• primacy effect

• recency effect

to modify one's attitudes and behavior so that they are consistent with those of other people

• attitude

• conform

• social perception

• primacy effect

• recency effect

the ways in which people perceive one another

• attitude

• conform

• social perception

• social facilitation

• group polarization

the tendency to form opinions of others based on first impressions

• attitude

• foot-in-the-door effect

• primacy effect

• recency effect

• bystander effect

the tendency for people to change their opinions of others based on recent interactions

• recency effect

• primacy effect

• foot-in-the-door effect

• bystander effect

the suggestion that there is a tendency to explain a person's behavior in terms of the situation or the person's personality

• social facilitation

• social perception

• altruism

• attribution theory

improved performance of tasks because of the presence of others

• attribution theory

• social faciliation

• social loafing

• group polarization

• altruism

the tendency for people to exert less effort toward completing a task when they are part of a group than when they are performing the task alone

• social facilitation

• social perception

• implicit norms

• explicit norms

• social loafing

the strengthening of a group's shared attitudes over time

• conform

• social loafing

• group polarization

• altruism

• bystander effect

unspoken, unwritten standards of behavior for a group of people

• primacy effect

• recency effect

• implicit norms

• explicit norms