Interacting with People Controlling People Understanding People
100
What is aggression?
Behavior with the purpose of harming another
100
What is an informational influence?
Occurs when another person's behavior provides information about what is good or right
100
What is stereotyping?
The process by which we draw inferences about others based on knowledge of the categories to which they belong.
200
What is cooperation?
Two or more people acting together to gain mutual benefits
200
What is conformity?
The tendency to do what others do simply because others are doing it
200
What is social cognition?
The process by which people come to understand others.
300
What is deindividuation?
The phenomenom that being in a group reduces ones awareness of his own values
300
What is the door-in-the-face technique?
Ask for something big (refuse) then ask for what you really want (with the hopes they will accept)
300
What is subtyping?
The process of creating a modification to a stereotype, rather than abandoning it altogether, when confronted with evidence that clearly disconfirms that stereotype
400
What is group polarization?
The tendency for a group's initial leaning to get stronger over time
400
What is normative influence?
One person's behavior is influenced by another person's behavior because the latter provides information about what is appropriate
400
What are attributions?
Inferences about the causes of people's behavior
500
What is reciprocal altruism?
Behavior that benefits others with the expectation that the benefits will be returned in the future
500
What is systematic persuasion?
The process by which a attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to reason
500
What is perceptual confirmation?
The tendency for observers to perceive what they expect to perceive






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