Social Psychology 

•the study of how we think about influence and relate to one another

• social thinking- How we think about one another

• Attribution Theory- Idea that we give a casual explanation for someone's behavior

   Ex:The kid acts up at school and the mother says that he acts that way because his dad die.

• Fundamental Attribution Error-Tendency to underestimate the impact of a situation and overestimate the impact of personal disposition.

• Attitudes -A belief or feeling that predisposed one to respond in a particular way to something 

• Foot-in-the door Phenomenon-.the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request

• Door-in-face Phenomenon-The tendency for people who say no to a huge request to comply with a smaller one
• Cognitive Dissonance Theory-We don't like when we have either conflicting attitudes or when our attitudes do not match our actions.

• Conformity-Adjusting ones behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
• Social Facilitation-Improved performance of tasks in the presence of others
• Yerkes-Dodson law-There is an optimal level of arousal for the best performance of any task 
• Social Loafing-Tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling efforts toward a common goal than if they were individually accountable
• Deindividuation-Loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in groups situations that foster arousal and anonymity
• Group Polarization-concept that a groups attitude is one of extremes and rarely moderate 
• Group think-mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision making group overrides common sense
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecies-Occurs when one person belief about others leads one to act in ways that induce the others to appear to confirm the belief