Social Psychology (Psychology)

Recall cards on social psychology: how people affect one another and how situations and groups shape individual behavior. Situationism versus dispositionism and the attribution biases (the fundamental attribution error, the actor-observer bias, the self-serving bias, and the just-world hypothesis). Self-presentation: social roles, social norms, scripts, and Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment. Attitudes and persuasion: the affective, behavioral, and cognitive components, Festinger's cognitive dissonance, the Yale attitude change approach, the elaboration likelihood model with its central and peripheral routes, and the foot-in-the-door technique. Conformity, compliance, and obedience: Asch's line studies and the Asch effect, normative versus informational social influence, Milgram's obedience experiment, groupthink, group polarization, social loafing, and deindividuation. Prejudice and discrimination: stereotypes, racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, in-groups and out-groups, in-group bias, scapegoating, self-fulfilling prophecy, and confirmation bias. Aggression: hostile versus instrumental aggression, the frustration-aggression theory, bullying and cyberbullying, the bystander effect, and diffusion of responsibility. Prosocial behavior: altruism, empathy, proximity, homophily, self-disclosure, reciprocity, the matching hypothesis, Sternberg's triangular theory of love, and social exchange theory.