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social psychology |
the study of how people influence others' behaviours, beliefs, attitudes either for good or bad. Scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to each other. |
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attribution |
process of assigning causes to behaviour |
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fundamental attribution error |
tendency to overestimate the tendency of dispositional influences on other people's behaviour |
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dispositional attributions |
tendency to explain behaviour based on personality or enduring characteristics in someone |
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situational attributions |
attributing behaviour by analyzing the current situation |
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conformity |
tendency of people to alter their behaviour as a result of group pressure |
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deindividuation |
when group influences are so strong that people lose self-awareness as individuals (increase anonimity, decrease responsibility) |
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obedience |
adherence to instructions from those of higher authority |
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informational social influence |
When we like to be right, and don't know what else to do so we assume that others know more about what to do, and copy their actions. |
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normative social influence |
when we conform to other's expectations acting like everyone else |
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perceptual salience |
we see the person, but the factors causing the situation are invisible |
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Tricouncil (TCPS) |
organization that provides research funds on the condition of three basic core principles |
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Research Ethics Board |
organization appointed as mandatory by Tricouncil if someone wants to apply for their funding |
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debriefing |
to disclose to the subject the purpose of an experiment and any reasons for deception and manipulation |
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prejudice |
conclusions about a person, group of people, or situation before evaluating all the evidence |
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beliefs |
a conclusion regarding factual evidence |
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attitudes |
a belief that includes an emotional component |
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discrimination |
the act of treating members of out groups differently from members of in groups. Involves negative behaviours |
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in-group bias |
tendency to favor our own groups over others |
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superordinate goals |
shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation. Helps to share identity, and see value in others |
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cognitive dissonance theory |
unpleasant mental experience of tension resulting from two conflicting thoughts or beliefs that makes us change our mind |
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stereotypes |
building blocks of prejudice, a belief positive or negative about a group's characteristics that we apply to most members of that group |
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self justification theory |
person tends to justify behaviour and deny negative feedback related to behaviour |
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peripheral route |
advertisement technique in which people's attentions are caught by surface characteristics of advertisement |
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central route |
elaborated arguments for advertising techniques to attract attention of those alert and willing to learn |
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concentrative meditation |
meditation focused on concentrating in a single object such as a mantra |
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non directive meditation |
meditation focused on concentrating mind on breath and allows mind to wander |
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informed consent |
document where people are informed about the study and have to sign if they want to do it |
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privilege |
special entitlement, advantage, or favor for specific group |
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oppression |
exercise of authority or power, in a cruel, burdensome or unjust manner |
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victimization |
suffering from the destructive acts of others |
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foot in the door |
people who agree to a small action tend to comply to a larger one |
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door in the face |
asking a huge favor, and then another one that is going to seem much smaller |
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commitment consistency |
to fulfill another small favor in a foot in the door technique |
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elaboration likelihood model (ELM) |
model where central techniques are inferred to be more well wrought than peripheral techniques |
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pluralistic ignorance |
error of assuming that no one in the group perceives things as we do |