AP Psych Unit 9

anonymity of being a person within a group or a crowd leads to this 

• confirmation bias
• diffusion of responsibility
• group polarization
• deindividuation

Groupthink is a phenomenon in which people strive for consensus within a group. In many cases, people will set aside their own personal beliefs or adopt the opinion of the rest of the group.

• True
• False

Refers to the amount of effort an audience member has to use in order to process and evaluate a message, remember it, and then accept or reject it.

• elaboration likelihood model
• beliefs

• symbols
• persuasion

The tendency to assume that one's own opinions, beliefs, attributes, or behaviors are more widely shared than is actually the case.

• cognitive dissonance
• just-world hypothesis
• social loafing
• false consensus effect

Making a small request that people will say yes to and then make a bigger request. Can lead to brainwashing.

• foot-in-the-door phenomenon
• halo effect

• values
• language

Diffusion of responsibility is a phenomenon in which people are less likely to act when in the presence of a large group of people.

• True
• False

Tendency to attribute another's actions to their character or personality, while attributing their behavior to external situational factors outside of their control.

• group polarization

• fundamental attribution error

• peripheral route

• social inhibition

social behavior is learned by observing and imitating the behavior of others.

• True
• false

how the social perceiver uses information to arrive at causal explanations for events. 

• attribution theory
• superodinate goals

• reciprocity norms

• out-group bias

phenomenon when members of a deliberating group move toward a more extreme point indicated by the members' pre-deliberation tendency.

• attribution error

• just-world hypothesis

• group polarization

• groupthink