Unit 9: Social Psychology

Attribution: Explains how people interpret the causes of events and behaviors.

Dispositional Attribution

Situational Attribution

Optimistic Explanatory Style

Pessimistic Explanatory Style

Actor-Observer Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error

Self-Serving Bias

Internal vs External Locus of Control

Mere Exposure Effect

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Social Comparison

Relative Deprivation

Stereotype

Cognitive Load

Prejudiced Attitudes

Discriminatory Behavior

Implicit Attitudes

Just-World Phenomenon

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

In Group Bias

Ethnocentrism

Belief Perseverance

Social Norms

Normative Social Influence

Informational Social Influence

Elaboration Likelihood Model

Central Route to Persuasion

Peripheral Route to Persuasion

Halo Effect

Foot-in-the-Door Technique to Persuasion

Door-in-the-Face Technique to Persuasion

Conformity, Obedience

Individualism, Collectivism

Multiculturalsim

Group Polarization

Groupthink

Diffusion of Responsibility

Social Loafing

Deindividuation

Social Facilitation

Social Inhibition

False Consensus Effect

Superordinate Goals

Social Trap

Industrial Organizational Psychology

Altrusim

Prosocial Behavior

Social Debt

Social Responsibility Norm

Social Reciprocity Norm

Bystander Effect