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Term 1: Social Psychology and Related Concepts, Quizzes of Psychology

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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Uploaded on 11/27/2009

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TERM 1
Social Psychology
DEFINITION 1
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.
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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.