AP Psychology Unit 4: Social Psychology and Personality

Front

What does the Attribution Theory explain in relation to behavior and mental processes?

Back

How people explain the causes of behavior

Front

Which of the following is an example of a situational attribution?

• Believing someone is late because they are lazy
• Assuming a person is kind because of their personality
• Thinking someone is late due to traffic
• Judging someone as intelligent because of their appearance

Back

Thinking someone is late due to traffic

Front

What is the term for the tendency to attribute others' behavior to internal factors while attributing our own actions to external factors?

Back

Actor-Observer Bias

Front

Locus of control

Back

The degree to which people believe they have control over events

Front

Which effect describes the phenomenon where repeated exposure to a stimulus increases liking for it?

Back

Mere Exposure Effect

Front

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Back

A belief that leads to its own fulfillment

Front

What is the term for the tendency to compare ourselves to others to evaluate our own abilities and opinions?

Back

Social Comparison

Front

Foot-in-the-Door Technique

Back

A method of persuasion involving a small request followed by a larger one

Front

What is the Social Identity Theory?

Back

The theory that people define themselves by their group memberships

Front

Ethnocentrism

Back

The belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group