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🎠Social Psychology
Key Terms

262 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Social Psychology exam

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A

Acculturative Stress
Acquiescence bias
Action research methodology
Acute stress
Adaptive coping strategies
Advertising psychology
Affect Displays
Affective component
Affective Empathy
Aggression Hypothesis
Albert Bandura
Allport's Contact Hypothesis
Ambivalent Stereotypes
Anxious-preoccupied attachment
Astroturfing
Attitude Polarization
Attitude stability
Attitude Strength

B

Behavioral rehearsal
Belmont Report
Bibb Latané

C

Claude Steele
Coercive techniques
Cognitive Component
Cognitive empathy
Cognitive Flexibility
Cognitive Interview
Cognitive Neoassociation Theory
Cognitive priming
Collaborative Inhibition
Collaborative Recall
Collective self-esteem
Collectivism vs. Individualism
Commitment and consistency
Commitment Model
Common ingroup identity model
Communal relationships
Communication patterns
Community-based programs
Companionate love
Conformity Pressures
Consumer-Brand Relationships
Contact Hypothesis
Contextual Cues
Contextual Influence
Cortisol
Covariation Model
Cross-lagged panel designs
Cross-racial identification bias
Crowding
Cultural Scripts
Cultural self-construals
Cultural Stereotypes
Cultural Transmission
Culture Shock

D

Daniel Batson
Daniel Kahneman
Darley and Latané's Experiments
De-biasing Techniques
Defensive attribution
Deindividuation
Dismissive-avoidant attachment

E

Emics and Etics
Emotion-focused coping
Emotional manipulation
Emotional Recognition
Emotional Regulation
Empathy-altruism hypothesis
Environmental Attitudes
Erving Goffman
Ethics committee
Event Schemas
Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary theory
Exchange norms