Social Psychology

_____ is an unfavourable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason about someone.

• Stereotype

• Discrimination

• Prejudice

the tendency to attribute one's own behavior to situational factors but to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional factors

• primacy effect

• mere exposure effect

• actor-observer bias

• assumed-similarity bias

scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by others

• conformity

• persuasion

• social psychology

• stereotype

act of blaming an out-group when the in-group experiences frustration or is blocked from obtaining a goal

• scapegoating

• attitude

• discrimination

• self-fulfilling prophecy

adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with group standards

• persuasion

• conformity

• stereotype

• prejudice

change in behavior to comply with a demand by an authority figure

• social psychology

• conformity

• obedience

• persuasion

changing one's behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for change

• obedience

• social psychology

• conformity

• compliance

feelings that predispose us to respond a particular way to objects, people, and events

• discrimination

• attitude

• self-fulfilling prophecy

• bystander effect

loss of awareness of one's own individuality resulting in reduction in accountability and sense of self

• scapegoating

• attitude

• discrimination

• deindividuation

modification of opinions of members of a group to align with what they believe is group consensus

• groupthink

• social cognition

• cognitive dissonance

• norm