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Across
  1. 2. Loafing The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
  2. 6. Polarisation Individuals tend to become more extreme in their initial position following group discussion
  3. 8. Social Influence The desire to conform to the behavior of others that occurs because of the need to be accepted and liked.
  4. 10. Validity The extent to which a study is realistic or representative of real life.
  5. 15. the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
  6. 16. to Authority the act of obeying the dictates of superiors
  7. 17. bias The tendency for people to credit their success ( attribute) to dispositional factors and their failings to situational factors
  8. 22. Attribution Error the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
  9. 23. Observation A research technique involving detached watching and listening in which the researcher does not interact with the study participants.
  10. 24. Mimicry Psychological copying of actions or behaviors
  11. 25. Observation observation in which the observer's presence or purpose is kept secret from those being observed
  12. 26. The process of explaining the causes of people's behavior, including our own
  13. 27. Influence the case where a minority of group members influences the behavior or beliefs of the majority
  14. 29. Is research measuring what it is supposed to measure?
  15. 30. Observation a naturalistic observation in which the observer becomes a participant in the group being observed
  16. 32. correlation the perception of a relationship where none exists
  17. 33. The tendency of individuals to change their attitudes, opinions, and behaviors to align with the group norms.
  18. 34. Observation observation in which those being observed and informed are informed of the observers presence and purpose
Down
  1. 1. people or corporations that control access to information
  2. 3. Effect People making an attribution about behavior depending on whether they are preforming it themselves or observing someone else doing it.
  3. 4. of truth hypothesis Campbell's theory that an experience with an individual from a group will then be generalised to the group
  4. 5. Factors Personal factors of the individual being the main explanation for their behaviour
  5. 7. Validity the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
  6. 9. Reliability The extent of agreement or consistency between two or more scorers, judges, or raters (operating independently) for attributes being measured or observed
  7. 11. Cultural Validity Is the measure ethnocentric ( based on values/ beliefs of one culture)
  8. 12. A phenomenon that occurs when immersion in a group causes people to become less aware of their individual values
  9. 13. Validity The extent to which a real or universal effect can be applied to or relevant to different populations
  10. 14. Is your method of research consistent?
  11. 15. bias a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and to avoid "counter-attitudinal" new information
  12. 18. Factors Forces outside an individual's immediate control such as environmental conditions.
  13. 19. Facilitation Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.
  14. 20. anxiety Emotional distress and pressure that may undermine performance
  15. 21. Social Influence The desire to conform to the behavior of others that occurs because an individual believes that the information presented is correct.
  16. 28. a generalised, distorted, exaggerated, or oversimplified image applied to a category of people
  17. 30. Validity The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior.
  18. 31. one's sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles