Unit 9 Vocab Quiz

Unselfish regard for the welfare of others.

• Companionate love

• Equity

• Altruism

• Compliance

The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that fosters motivational arousal.

• Group Polarization

• Deindividuation

• Groupthink

• Social facilitation

Improved performance, especially on simple or well-learned tasks. when in the presence of others.

• Social facilitation

• Social inhibition

• Social loafing

• Situational attribution

Feelings, often based on our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people and events.

• Attribution

• Attitude

• Prejudice

• Cognitive Dissonance

Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

• Compliance

• Obedience

• Conformity

• Social loafing

Tendency for people in a group to exert less effort than they would if working individually.

• Social loafing

• Bystander effect

• Social inhibition

• Deindividuation

The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.

• Ingroup bias

• groupthink

• group polarization

• informational social influence

Tendency to view members of rival groups as all alike

• stereotypes

• external attributions

• outgroup homogeneity

• ingroup bias

How we explain someone’s behavior—by crediting either the situation or a person’s

  disposition.

• Normative social influence

• Mirror-image perception

• Stereotypes

• Attribution

Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members.

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Stereotype

• Scapegoat effect