Social Psychology Vocabulary Review

beliefs and feelings about objects, people, and events that affect how people behave in certain situations

• attitudes

• social psychology

• obedience

• cognitive evaluation

developing attitudes on the basis of one’s evaluations of evidence

• social cognition

• cognitive evaluation

• cognitive anchors

• social facilitation

persistent beliefs that shape the ways in which we see the world and interpret events

• cognitive anchors

• social cognition

• cognitive evaluation

• cognitive dissonance

an uncomfortable feeling of tension when our behavior doesn’t match our attitudes

• groupthink

• cognitive dissonance

• social facilitation

• obedience

the ways people perceive one another, affecting the attitudes people form towards one another

• observational learning

• social perception

• social facilitation

• social norms

the tendency for people to form opinions of others based on first impressions

• primacy effect

• recency effect

• actor-observer bias

• self-serving bias

people tend to explain behavior in terms of either personality factors or in terms of situational factors

• actor-observer bias

• attribution theory

• fundamental attribution error

• self-serving bias

the tendency to overestimate the effect of dispositional causes, and underestimate the situational causes

• attribution theory

• actor-observer bias

• fundamental attribution error

• cognitive evaluation

the tendency to attribute our own successes to dispositional factors, but attribute our failures to the situation

• actor-observer bias

• self-serving bias

• conformity

• social loafing

in the Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo studied the extent to which ____________ would affect people’s attitudes and beliefs

• roles

• obedience

• the bystander effect

• conformity