Unit 4A: Social Psych

What is the tendency to explain someone's behavior based on their personality rather than the situation?

• Self-Serving Bias

• Actor/Observer Bias

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Social Loafing

If you believe that your success is due to your own effort, but your failures are due to bad luck, you are showing:

• Social Norms

• Self-Serving Bias

• Cognitive Load

• Social Comparison

What is it called when people perform better on simple tasks when being watched by others?

• Social Facilitation

• Social Loafing

• Groupthink

• Foot-in-the-Door Technique

A person who believes they have control over their own success has a(n):

• External Locus of Control

• Situational Attribution

• Internal Locus of Control

• Informational Social Influence

When people like something more after repeated exposure, this is called:

• Mere Exposure Effect

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Social Traps

• Normative Social Influence

A child being told they are bad at math starts to believe it and stops trying. This is an example of:

• Stereotype

• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

• Social Debt

• Social Loafing

What is it called when people assume that members of an out-group are all the same?

• Social Reciprocity Norm

• Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

• Group Polarization

• Altruism

A person who attributes their bad grade to the teacher but another’s bad grade to laziness is showing:

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Actor/Observer Bias

• Social Influence Theory

• Groupthink

What is the tendency to follow group norms even when they may be incorrect?

• Social Responsibility Norm

• False Consensus Effect

• Conformity

• Social Loafing

What is the belief that the world is fair and people get what they deserve?

• In-Group Bias

• Confirmation Bias

• Groupthink

• Just-World Phenomenon