SU LMS

}What is social psychology?

}What are attributions, and what is the difference between situationism and dispositionism as they relate to how attributions are made?

}What is the difference between fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias? How does actor-observer bias relate to attribution errors?

}How do individualistic cultures differ from collectivistic cultures?

}What are social roles, social norms, and scripts?

}What are attitudes and their components, and how do they form?

}What happens when attitudes do not match actions—cognitive dissonance?

}How does persuasion relate to attitude change?

}How are the four techniques of persuasion described?

}How is conformity defined, and what were Asch’s contributions to the study?

}What is compliance?

}What is obedience, and what did Milgram’s study of obedience consist of?

}What is groupthink?

}How does social facilitation and social loafing relate to the influence of others on task performance?

}What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

}What are stereotypes?

}What is meant by the concept “self-fulfilling prophecy”?

}What are in-groups versus out-groups? What is “scapegoating”?

}How did Jane Elliott contribute to the study of prejudice and discrimination?

}What is aggression and how is it influenced? How does it relate to bullying?

}What is the bystander effect?

}What is prosocial and altruism?

}What are factors that cause attraction?

}What is love and what are Sternberg’s different forms of love?

Introduction to Psychology (PSYC-5101) Credit Hours: 3 Week 13 & 14: Social Psychology