PSYCH 100 FINAL CROSBY EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

PSYCH 100 FINAL CROSBY EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS social psychology - answer-the scientific study of how a person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined or implied presence of others social influence - answer-the process through which the real or implied presence of others can directly or indirectly influence the thoughts, feelings and behavior of an individual groupthink - answer-kind of thinking that occurs when people place more importance on maintaining group cohesiveness than on assessing the facts of the problem with which the group is concerned social facilitation - answer-the tendency for the presence of other people to have a positive impact on the performance of an easy task social impairment - answer-the tendency for the presence of other people to have a negative impact on the performance of a difficult task attitude - answer-a tendency to respond positively or negatively toward a certain person, object, idea, or situation persuasion - answer-the process by which one person tries to change the belief, opinion, position or course of action of another person through argument, pleasing or explanation elaboration likelihood model - answer-the model of persuasion stating that people will either elaborate on the persuasive message or fail to elaborate on it and that the future actions of those who do elaborate are more predictable than those who do notcognitive dissonance - answer-sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person's behavior does not correspond to that persons's attitudes impression formation - answer-the forming of the first knowledge that a person has concerning another person social cognition - answer-the mental processes that people use to make sense of the social world around them social categorization - answer-the assignment of a person one has just met to a category based on characteristics the new person has in common with other people with whom one has experience in the past implicit personality theory - answer-sets of assumptions about how different types of people, personality traits, and actions are related to each other attribution - answer-the process of explaining one's own behavior and the behavior of others situational cause - answer-cause of behavior attributed to external factors such as delays, the action of others, or some other aspect of the situation dispositional cause - answer-cause of behavior attributed to internal factors such as personality or character fundamental attribution error - answer-the tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors in determining behavior while underestimating situational factors realistic conflict theory - answer-theory stating that prejudice and discrimination will be increased between groups that are in conflict over a limited resource self-fulfilling prophesy - answer-the tendency of one's expectations to affect one's behavior in such a way as to make the expectations more likely to occur