PSYCHOLOGY EXAM"
How people influence other people's thoughts, feelings, and actions - answers✔✔Social
Psychology
any behavior that involves the intention to harm another - answers✔✔Aggression
providing help when it is needed, without any apparent reward for doing so -
answers✔✔Altruism
people's evaluations of objects, of events, or of ideas - answers✔✔Attitudes
people's explanations for why events or actions occur - answers✔✔Attributions
the failure to offer help by those who observe someone in need when other people are present
- answers✔✔Bystander Intervention Effect
an uncomfortable mental state resulting from a contradiction between two attitudes or
between an attitude and a behavior - answers✔✔Cognitive Dissonance
the tendency to agree to do things requested by others - answers✔✔Compliance
the altering of one's behaviors and opinions to match those of other people or to match other
people's expectations - answers✔✔Conformity
, a state of reduced individuality, reduced self-awareness, and reduced attention to personal
standards; this phenomenon may occur when people are part of a group -
answers✔✔Deindividuation
the inappropriate and unjustified treatment of people as a result of prejudice -
answers✔✔Discrimination
attitudes that a person can report - answers✔✔Explicit Attitudes
in explaining other people's behavior, the tendency to overemphasize personality traits and
underestimate situational factors - answers✔✔Fundamental Attribution Error
the extent to which people feel frustrated predicts the likelihood that they will act aggressively -
answers✔✔Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
attitudes that influence a person's feelings and behavior at an unconscious level -
answers✔✔Implicit Attitudes
the tendency for people to evaluate favorably and privilege members of the ingroup more than
members of the outgroup - answers✔✔Ingroup Favoritism
the facial expressions, gestures, mannerisms, and movements by which one communicates with
others - answers✔✔Nonverbal Behavior
explanations of people's behavior that refer to their internal characteristics, such as abilities,
traits, moods, or efforts - answers✔✔Personal Attributions