PSYCH 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Fundamental Attribution Error, Trait Theory, Relational Aggression
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Social psychology: study of how people influence others" behavior, beliefs, and attitudes. Social comparison theory: theory that we seek to evaluate our abilities and beliefs by comparing them with those of others. Mass hysteria: outbreak of irrational behavior that it spread by social contagion. Social facilitation: enhancement of performance brought about by the presence of others. Attribution: process of assigning causes to behavior. Fundamental attribution error: tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences on other people"s behavior. Conformity: tendency of people to alter their behavior as a result of group pressure. Deindividuation: tendency of people to engage in uncharacteristic behavior when they are stripped of their usual identities. Groupthink: emphasis on group unanimity at the expense of critical thinking. Group polarization: tendency of group discussion to strengthen the dominant positions held by individual group members. Cult: group of individuals who exhibit intense and unquestioning devotion to a single cause.
