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Explain Compliance in social psychology.
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Yielding to social pressure in one’s public behavior, despite not necessarily agreeing privately.
What is Conformity?
Adjusting behaviors or thoughts to align with others.
Explain the Self-Serving Bias.
Attributing personal successes to dispositional factors and failures to situational factors.
Describe the Just World Hypothesis.
Belief that the world is just and people get what they deserve.
Describe Social Traps.
Situations in which individuals or groups pursue self-interest over collective interest.
Explain the concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
Expectations about a person lead to behavior that causes those expectations to come true.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
Tendency to attribute others’ actions to their character rather than to situational factors.
What is Confirmation Bias?
Favoring information that confirms previously existing beliefs.
Define the False Consensus Effect.
Overestimating how much others agree with us.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Discomfort from holding conflicting cognitions (e.g., beliefs, attitudes).
Describe the Social Facilitation effect.
Improved performance on tasks in the presence of others.
Define Obedience in psychology.
Changing one’s behavior at the command of an authority.
What is Group Polarization?
Strengthening of the group's prevailing opinion after discussing an idea.
Define Deindividuation.
Losing self-awareness and restraint occurring in group situations.
Explain Superordinate Goals.
Shared goals that override differences among individuals and require their cooperation.
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