Unit 5: Social Psychology

(a)   is the study of how the presence of other people influences the way we feel, think and behave.

____ refers to the powerful effect the presence of other people has on the ways we think, feel, and behave.

• Social perception

• social norms

• self-identity

• social influence

____ are explanations for the circumstances, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of ourselves and others.

• Interpretations

• Attributions

• Stereotypes

• Prejudices

____ refer to generally accepted rules of appropriate behavior in various social situations or social context.

• Bias

• Social perception

• Social norms

• Attributions

The _____ refers to our tendency to comply with a large request after first complying with a small one.

• norm of reciprocity

• door-in-the-face phenomenon

• foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• mere-exposure effect

_____ refers to the spreading of responsibility for a task across all group members.

• De-individualization

• Conformity

• Diffusion of responsibility

• Peer pressure

When individuals share a common resource, they all want and there is a scarcity of that resource (or the perception of a scarcity of that resource), individuals sometimes take more than their fair share and use the resource up quickly.

• Cooperation dilemma

• Prisoner's dilemma

• The Greedy dilemma

• Commons dilemma

______ experimented with investigating the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform by using a "vision test" with lines.

• Sigmund Freud

• Solomon Asch

• Phillip Zimbardo

• Erik Erikson

_____ occurs when a group supports a decision supported by the majority of the group following a group discussion. 

_____ occurs when a confident and persistent minority group influences a decision made by a whole group. 

• Group polarization, Minority influence

• Minority influence, Group polarization

______ is a mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for unanimity in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action.

• Groupthink

• Group pressure

• Single mentality

• Bad apple effect