Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Their own notions and behaviors with social interactions.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Cite specific research-based evidence to support various processes in social psychology.
- Summarize complex theories and concepts in social psychology into simpler, yet still accurate, terms.
- Provide real-world examples for social psychology concepts.
- Assess social psychology concepts using sound methodology with multistep procedures, analyzing the results in light of research presented in the text.
- Evaluate the research in social psychology using multiple sources to verify, corroborate or challenge the conclusions drawn.
- Synthesize information and research to address and issue in social psychology.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are ways in which individuals are influenced by groups and how groups are influenced by individuals.
- There are ways that individuals reconcile actions and attitudes.
- There are ways to promote cooperation among people.
- There are ways to avoid prejudice and discrimination.
- There are mechanisms for attracting and sustaining meaningful relationships.
- Persuasion has an influence on behavior and mental processes.
Vocabulary
- social psychology
- attribution theory
- cognitive dissonance
- explanatory style
- actor-observer bias
- fundamental attribution error
- situational attribution
- dispositional attribution
- self-serving bias
- central route to persuasion
- peripheral route to persuasion
- foot-in-the-door phenomenon
- conformity
- normative social influence
- social facilitation
- social loafing
- group polarization
- groupthink
- deindividuation
- obedience
- prejudice
- stereotype
- discrimination
- ethnocentrism
- contact hypothesis
- in-group bias
- out-group bias
- scapegoat theory
- just world phenomenon
- other-race effect
- social identity
- ethnic identity
- blaming the victim
- mere exposure effect
- passionate love
- companionate love
- equity
- self-disclosure
- altruism
- bystander effect
- diffusion of responsibility
- reciprocity norm
- social responsibility norm
- social trap
- conflict
- superordinate goals
- self-fulfilling prophecy
- attitude
