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Definitions for various terms related to social psychology, including social roles, relationships, groups, culture, social norms, attitudes, and more. It covers key concepts such as the fundamental attribution error, self-serving bias, groupthink, and social loafing.
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The study of how social roles, attitudes, relationships, and groups influence people do things they would not necessarily do on their own. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 The study of the broader influence of culture and ethnicity on roles and relationships in society. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Rules about how people are supposed to act from one situation to another. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Positions that are regulated by norms about how people in those positions should behave. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 The process by which individuals increase their commitment to a course of action in order to justify their investment in it.
The tendency of people to feel more positive toward a person, item, product, or other stimulus that they have seen often. TERM 7
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
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
DEFINITION 9 Attributions based on the environments. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 Attributions based on an internal trait or motive in the person.
When statements are repeated, people eventually begin to believe them. TERM 17
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
DEFINITION 18 In groups, the tendency of members to avoid taking responsibility for actions of decisions, assuming that others will do so. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 When people do not offer help to someone in need of it. TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 When individual group members are not accountable for the work that they perform.
In groups or crowds, the loss of awareness of one's own individuality. TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 The willingness to take selfless and dangerous action on behalf of others, due to personal convictions or external influences. TERM 23
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
DEFINITION 24 A person's identification wih a racial, religious, or ethnic group. TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 The process by which members of minority groups come to identify with and feel part of the mainstream culture.
Have strong ties both to their ethnicity and to the larger culture. TERM 32
DEFINITION 32 Consists of a negative stereotype and a strong, unreasonable dislike or hatred of a group.