| A | B |
| obedience | Behavior that occurs when people follow a direct command. |
| conformity | Acting in accordance with behavior of group. |
| compliance | Acting in accordance with behavior of group, but privately disagreeing. |
| attribution | Attempting to understand how we interpret people's behavior. |
| social psychology | How behavior of individual's is influenced by others. |
| empty love | commitment only |
| self-fulfilling prophecy | Tendency for one's expectations to make a second person behave in accordance with these expectations. |
| consummate love | Passion, intimacy, and commitment. |
| dispositional attribution | Think one's personality or disposition is resposible for behavior. |
| situational attribution | Think circumstances are responsible for behavior. |
| fundamental attribution error | Failing to recognize the influence of circumstances on the behavior of others while making dispositional attributions. |
| self-serving bias | Explaining own good behavior in terms of dispositon and bad behavior in terms of situation. |
| persuasion | Attempts to influence attitudes and behavior. |
| Sternberg | Three components for different types of love. |
| Schacter | Studied our need for others. |
| Sherif | Studied formation of norms and how we conform in ambiguous situations. |
| Milgram | Studied obedience. |
| Asch | Showed how people conform even in clear-cut situations. |
| socialization | eaching and learning process in which a culture transmits its values, norms, language, and symbols through social interaction. |
| culture | Symbols, language, norms, and values held in common by people who share a distinctive way of life. |
| norms | Unwritten rules for accepted and expect behavior in a culture. |
| values | Broad principles people in a society consider important and desirable. |
| groups | A collection of two or more people who influence each other through social interaction for more than a few moments and work toward a common goal. |
| liking | Intimacy only. |
| romantic love | Passion and intimacy. |
| companionate love | Intimacy and commitment. |
| fatuous love | Passion and commitment. |
| consummate love | Passion, commitment, and intimacy. |
| infatuation | Passion only. |
| empty love | Commitment only. |
| bystander effect | The greater the number of bystanders looking on in an emergency (or any other time help is needed), the less likely any one of them will be to help. |
| social loafing | Phenomenon observed in groups, in which each member of the group exerts less effort than they would individually. |
| deindividuation | Condition that occurs when an individual in a group loses his sense of individuality and sense of self-awareness resulting in behavior that is less constrained and inhibited. |
| groupthink | Tendency of a group to emphasize agreement within the group at the expense of critical thinking. |
| group polarization | The shift in judgment following group discussion to a more extreme alternative than the average of individual judgments made before the discussion. |
| Anxious people | seek anxious people with similar anxiety. |
| Best predictor of friendship | proximity |
| decreases obedience | Authority is distant. |
| two-factor theory of romantic love | A state of intense emotional arousal is associated with an appropriate romantic partner causing belief that one is ‘in love.’ |
| Group size conducive to conformity | 3-5 |