Core Areas Social Psychology Term Two Keywords

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Authoritarian
parents are more demanding and less responsive
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Authoritative
parents are both demanding and responsive
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Acceptance
others ideas taken on board and internalised
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Autokinetic effect
a visual illusion that light is thought to move in dark when there is no reference item
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Authoritarian personality
conventionalism, submission to authority and aggression
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Asserting uniqueness
reclaiming individuality by not conforming to norms of too-similar others
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Altruism
an action that is performed to benefit a person without benefitting the self
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Altruistic personality
a stable psychological makeup that predisposes people to help others
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Attitudes
persons evaluations of various aspects of their social world
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Attitude to behavior process model
sometimes behaviour is determined by attitudes in a more autonomic process
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Averageness effect
the finding that people prefer average or prototypical faces to faces that have distinctive features
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Authoritarianism
a form of social organisation characterised by preference for, and submission to, authority
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Black sheep effect
derogation of deviant or marginal ingroup members
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Bystander intervention
act of helping a person in danger/distress by people who are not its cause
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Conformity
change own beliefs to match that of others
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Compliance
outward change of behaviour to gain reward and avoid punishment
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Cooperation decisions
that sacrifice the persons interests for the sake of the group
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Cognitive dissonance
unpleasant psychological state of tension/discomfort that occurs when people notice inconsistency in behaviour and attitudes
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Causal attribution
the process of assigning a cause to an event or behaviour
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Correspondent inference theory
the attribution of a personality trait that corresponded to an observed behaviour
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Covariation theory
the attribution of events to conditions that tend to be present when the event happens and absent when it doesn’t
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Consensus information
the extent to which other people react in the same way to a particular stimulus
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Consistency information
the extent to which a person reacts to same situation in different occasions
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Complementarity
the idea that people seek out traits in potential relationship partners that complement, or add what is missing, to their own
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Deindividuation
tendency of people in groups to abandon normal constraints on beh
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Deflection decisions
persons interests at the expense of the group
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Direct approach
changing attitudes
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Distinctiveness Information
whether behaviour happens to this specific stimulus or that
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Dialectic principle
desire for privacy can vary from being open or closed to others
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Discrimination
negative treatment of a group member simply because of their group membership
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Enforced norms
receive rewards or avoid punishments
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Emergent norm theory
beh in crowds is a result of social norms
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Excitation theory
a phenomenon that occurs when the arousal from one stimulus is added to the arousal of a second stimulus
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False consensus effect
own behaviour are more typical than they are
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False uniqueness effect
more likely to perform positive behaviour than others
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Group
two or more individuals perceive themselves to be members of the same social category
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Group socialisation
the process of groups as a while and group members coming together to meet each-others needs and accomplish goals over time
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Group cohesion
the degree to which the group holds together as an entity
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Group behaviour
beh displayed by people who are acting within and as a group
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Group action
beh by group members that is coordinated in order to achieve a common goal
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Group polarisation
group interaction strengthens initial learnings of group member so that attitudes become polarised
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Group think
made of thinking that groups engage in when cohesion seems more important
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Internalized norms
we believe that they are right
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Informational influence
desire to be right
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Indirect approach
reduce discomfort
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Ingroup
A social group to which you belong
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Intergroup processes
Situations, cognitions, beliefs, and feelings that arise when people from different groups interact with or think about each other
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Kin selection
acting different towards members of the same species based on their degree of genetic relatedness to the self
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Law of attraction
attraction towards a person is directly and linearly related to the proportion of attitudes that one shares with that person
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Motivated actions
attributions and judgement are determined by personal motives
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Matching phenomenon
the tendency for individuals to choose as partners people who are similar match to themselves in terms of their physical attractiveness
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Minority
a culturally, ethnically, or racially distinct group that coexists with but is subordinate to a more dominant group
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Minimal group
ingroups and outgroups form on trivial, highly context-specific features
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Norms
uniformities of behaviour and attitudes that determine, organise and differentiate groups from other groups
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Normative influence
desire to be liked
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Need to affiliate
motive to seek and maintain relationships with others
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Obedience
following without internalising associated beliefs
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Optimization principle
try to align our desired level of contact with our actual level of contact with others
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Outgroup
A social group to which you do not belong
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Permissive
parents are less demanding and more responsive
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Proximity effect
being or living close to others can facilitate attraction and relationship formation
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Physical attractiveness stereotype
the tendency for people to assume that attractive people possess other socially desirable traits in addition to their looks
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Prototype
more ‘face-like’ and therefore more familiar
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Prejudice
negative, affective prejudgement about a group and its individual members
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Roles
expectations shared by group members about how particular people in the group as supposed to behave
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Radicalization
people are encouraged to strike out at a society they are led to believe is wrong/immoral
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Referent information influence
people conform to group norm because they are group members
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Resistance
deliberately reacting against influence attempt
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Reciprocal altruism
animals act altruistically towards members of the same species that have already helped them
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Social psychology
scientific methods to understand and explain how thought, feeling and behaviour of individuals is influenced by actual, imagined or implied presence of others.
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Self-concept
the complete set of beliefs that people have about themselves, which form understanding of who they are
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Self-awareness
is the psychological state of being aware of one’s characteristics, feelings and behaviours
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Self-esteem
peoples objective appraisal of themselves intrinsically positive or negative
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Socialisation outcomes
Feelings of members and group as a whole about how they functioned to reach group objective
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Social creativity
strategies that group members engage in to maintain esteem of the group
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Schism
a group divides into subgroups
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Social facilitation
the process by which the presence of others can facilitate beh
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Social inhibition
process by which the presence of others can hinder beh
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Social loafing
accountability within a group
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Social identity model
result of increased group not loss of individual factors
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Social influence
the effect that others have on our thoughts, feelings and behaviour
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Self-affirmation
restoring positive self-views when faced with cognitive dissonance
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Self-serving attribution bias
people to attribution events to cause that serve the self
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Stereotype
simplified but widely shared belief about a characteristic of a group and its members
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Theory of planned behavioir
people make a decision to behave in a particular way as a result of a sequence of rational thought processes
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