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| Social Psychology | Scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. |
| Attitude | Relatively stableand enduring system of feelings and beliefs about a given person or thing. |
| Attribution Thoery | Theory that specifies how people make inferences about the cause of behavior. |
| Person Attribution | Locates the cause of behavior in a person's character |
| Situation Attribution | Locates the cause of behavior in a person's environmental surroundings |
| Distinctiveness | The extent to which a response is unique to a given situation |
| Consensus | The extent to which a response is similar across different people |
| Consistency | The extent to which a person's response is the same in similar situations over time |
| Group | Two or more individuals who interact in such a manner that each person influences the other and is influenced in return |
| Self-fullfilling Prophecy | Tendency for people to elicit behavior from others that conforms to their own personal expectations |
| Norms | Rules that apply to every member of a group |
| Roles | Norms that apply to specific members of a group who occupy special positions within it |
| Reference Groups | Groups to which people relate and /or want to belong |
| Deindividuation | Loss of self-restraint that occurs under conditions of arousal, novelty, and anonymity |
| Conformity | Tendency for people to match their behavior to that of other members of a group |
| Obedience | Tendency for people to comply with orders, either real or imagined, from an authority figure |
| Bystander Intervention | Research that focuses on when and under what conditions individuals help others in need |
| Diffusion of Responsibility | Situation In which individuals in a group assume less personal responsibility for helping a victim as the group becomes larger |
| Prejudice | Unjustified negative attitudes that one person holds about another based on exclusively on the person's membership in a social group |
| Discrimination | Unjustified negative behavior directed toward others based on their membership in a social group |
| Stereotypes | Mental images in which specific mental, physical, and behavioral traits are uncritically attributed to others based solely on their membership in a social group |
| Ethnocentrism | Tendency for people to evaluate their own group an superior to other groups |
| Group Polarization | Tendency for decisions made by a group to be more extreme than those made by individuals |
| Loneliness | Feeling of deprivation resultingfrom unsatisfactory social relations with others |
