Psychology 110 Terms & Vocabulary

Topic 9:  (Corresponding to Chapter 16):

        Milgram   social psychology   attribution  Heider   internal disposition   external situation

        fundamental attribution error   saliency bias   self-serving bias    attitude   cognitive component

        behavioral component   Festinger   cognitive dissonance theory   affective component

        Festinger & Carlsmith    prejudice   stereotype   discrimination    ingroup   outgroup    ingroup favoritism

        outgroup homogeniety effect   economic/political competition    displaced aggression   scapegoating

        cooperation   Sherif   superordinate goals   cognitive retraining   interpersonal attraction   proximity

        similarity   physical attractiveness    evolutionary psychology   matching hypothesis   Regan   Moore   flirting      

        mere exposure effect    need complementarity    need compatibility    Rubin   liking vs loving   romantic love

        caring   attachment    intimacy   companionate love   conformity   Asch   normative social influence   norm   

        personal space    informational social influence   reference group   obedience   foot-in-the-door technique

        role    Zimbardo    deindividuation   dehumanization    group   risky shift    group polarization   group think

        Janis   aggression   biological factors   Freud & instincts   genes    testosterone    serotonin & GABA   

        psychosocial factors    Dollard   frustration-aggression hypothesis   Loeber & Stouthamer   misconceptions

        altruism   egoistic model   empathy-altruism model   Batson   Latané & Darley    diffusion of responsibility

                 (And from the lectures):

        social perception   status   open-class society   closed-class society   caste system    (non-)receiprocal address

        Aronson   klutz study   direct speech act    indirect speech act    face-saving   Gray   reciprocity   Cherney

        MUD/MOO   alliancing   special language   Kahneman   availability heuristic   social reference   dissent

        central vs peripheral group role   Diener    social loafing    Jones & Nisbett    Kelly   distinctiveness    consensus

        consistency   actor-observer difference   self- vs other-perception   Valins    social schema   Brewer & Treyens

        false memory   self-fulfilling prophecy   Rothbart, Evans, & Fulero   confirmation bias   impression formation

        central vs peripheral trait   primacy effect    Grice    conversational postulates   halo effect   Berscheid & Walster

        Balance Theory    Freedman & Fraser   Spiro   Stockholm syndrome   McGuire    inoculation    Adorno et al.

        authoritarian personality   denial   projection