Unit 4 AP Psych Vocab List
Unit 4: Social Psychology and Personality (118)
Topic 4.1 Attribution Theory and Person Perception (13)
Dispositional Attribution | Situational Attribution | Optimistic explanatory style |
Pessimistic explanatory style | Actor-observer bias | Fundamental attribution error (FAE) |
Self-serving bias | External locus of control | Internal locus of control |
Mere exposure effect | Self-fulfilling prophecy | Social comparison |
Relative deprivation |
Topic 4.2 Attitude Formation and Change (9)
Stereotype (link to prejudice, discrimination) | Implicit attitudes | Just-world phenomenon |
Out-group homogeneity bias | In-group bias | Ethnocentrism |
Belief perseverance | Confirmation bias | Cognitive dissonance |
Topic 4.3 Psychology of Social Situations (28)
Social Norms | Normative Social Influence (Influence theory) | Informational Social Influence (influence theory) |
Elaboration likelihood model | Central route to persuasion | Peripheral route to persuasion |
Halo effect | Foot-in-the-door technique | Door-in-the-face effect |
Conformity | Obedience | Individualism |
Collectivism | Multiculturalism | Group polarization |
Groupthink | Diffusion of Responsibility | Social Loafing |
Deindividuation | Social Facilitation | False consensus effect |
Superordinate goals | Social Trap | Industrial-Organizational Psychology |
Altruism | Social Responsibility Norm | Social Reciprocity Norm |
Bystander Effect |
Topic 4.4 Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Theories of Personality (15)
Psychodynamic perspective | Unconscious processes | Ego defense mechanisms |
Denial | Displacement | Projection |
Rationalization | Reaction formation | Regression |
Repression | Sublimation | Projective tests |
Unconditional (positive) regard | Humanistic Perspective/psychology | Self-actualizing tendency |
Topic 4.5 Social-Cognitive and Trait Theories (9)
Social-cognitive theory | Reciprocal determinism | Self-efficacy |
Self-esteem | Self-concept | Trait theories |
Big 5 Theory of Personality (OCEAN) | Personality inventories | Factor Analysis |
Topic 4.6 Motivation (26)
Drive-reduction theory | Homeostasis | Arousal theory (optimal arousal) |
Yerkes-Dodson Law | Self-determination theory | Intrinsic motivation |
Extrinsic motivation | Incentive theory | Instincts |
Lewin’s motivational conflicts theory | Approach-approach theory | Approach-avoidance theory |
Avoidance-avoidance | Sensation seeking (experience, thrill adventure, disinhibition, boredom, susceptibility) | Eating motivation |
Ghrelin | Leptin | Hypothalamus |
Pituitary Gland | External factors motivating hunger (presence of food, time of day, social gatherings) |
Topic 4.7 Emotion (18)
Internal/external factors affecting emotion | Physiological and cognitive experiences of emotion | Cognitive label |
Facial-feedback hypothesis | Facial expressions | Cognitive appraisal |
Broaden-and-build theory of emotion | Negative emotions | Emotions as universally common |
Anger | Disgust | Sadness |
Happiness | Surprise | Fear |
Universality of emotions (Ekman) | Display rules | Elicitors for emotional expression |