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Social Psychology
The study of how social roles, attitudes, relationships, and groups influence people do things they would not necessarily do on their own. TERM 2
Culture Psychology
DEFINITION 2 The study of the broader influence of culture and ethnicity on roles and relationships in society. TERM 3
Social Norms
DEFINITION 3 Rules about how people are supposed to act from one situation to another. TERM 4
Roles
DEFINITION 4 Positions that are regulated by norms about how people in those positions should behave. TERM 5
Entrapment
DEFINITION 5 The process by which individuals increase their commitment to a course of action in order to justify their investment in it.
Familiarity Effect
The tendency of people to feel more positive toward a person, item, product, or other stimulus that they have seen often. TERM 7
Social Cognition
DEFINITION 7 The study of how people's perceptions of themselves and others affect their relationships and how the social environment affects thoughts, beliefs, and values. TERM 8
Attribution Theory
DEFINITION 8 The theory that people are motivated to explain their own and other people's behavior by attributing causes of that behavior to a situation or a disposition. TERM 9
Situational Attributions
DEFINITION 9 Attributions based on the environments. TERM 10
Dispositional Attributions
DEFINITION 10 Attributions based on an internal trait or motive in the person.
Validity Effect
When statements are repeated, people eventually begin to believe them. TERM 17
Groupthink
DEFINITION 17 In close-knit groups, the tendency for all members to think alike for the sake of harmony and to suppress disagreement. TERM 18
Diffusion of Responsibility
DEFINITION 18 In groups, the tendency of members to avoid taking responsibility for actions of decisions, assuming that others will do so. TERM 19
Bystander Apathy
DEFINITION 19 When people do not offer help to someone in need of it. TERM 20
Social Loafing
DEFINITION 20 When individual group members are not accountable for the work that they perform.
Deindividuation
In groups or crowds, the loss of awareness of one's own individuality. TERM 22
Altruism
DEFINITION 22 The willingness to take selfless and dangerous action on behalf of others, due to personal convictions or external influences. TERM 23
Social Identity
DEFINITION 23 The part of a person's self-concept that is based on his or her identification with a nation, ethnic group, gender, or other social affiliation. TERM 24
Ethnic Identity
DEFINITION 24 A person's identification wih a racial, religious, or ethnic group. TERM 25
Acculturation
DEFINITION 25 The process by which members of minority groups come to identify with and feel part of the mainstream culture.
Bicultural Identity
Have strong ties both to their ethnicity and to the larger culture. TERM 32
Prejudice
DEFINITION 32 Consists of a negative stereotype and a strong, unreasonable dislike or hatred of a group.
