Social Psychology Vocabulary

Puzzles

Agency theory

Agentic state

Agentic shift

Alternate Hypothesis

Autonomous state

Authoritarian Personality

Authority

Bar Chart

Closed Questions

Cognitive Dissonance

Compliance

Confederate

Conflict

Conformity

Constructive conformity

Co-operation

Culture

Defence Mechanism

Denial

Discrimination

Dispositionalist

Dissent/dissenter

Divisional effect

Enculturation

Environment

Ethics

Experimental Hypothesis

External locus of control

Evolution

Free will

Frequency table

F-scale

Gender

Genocide

Hierarchy: Group members are ranked in order of social power or dominance, members with less power are described as sub-ordinate (sub is Latin for under) and those that are above them are referred to as super-ordinates (super is Latin for over). The super-ordinates have greater authority and maybe authority figures for their subordinates.

Holocaust

Hypothesis

Ideology

Immediacy

Individual differences

Ingroup

Internal locus of control

Interviews

Jigsaw puzzle technique

Legitimate authority – Authority is described as legitimate when there is a consensus that a person has the right to make decisions, expect others to follow his or her lead and enforce obedience.

Mean

Measures of Central tendency

Measures of Dispersion

Median

Mode

Moral Strain

Multiplicative effect

Natural Selection

Norms

Null Hypothesis

Number (of sources/targets)

Obedience

One hundred and fifty volt solution

Open Questions

Opportunity Sample

Outgroup

Personality

Prejudice

Proximity

Quantitative Data

Qualitative Data

Quest for psotive distinctiveness

Questionnaires

Random Sample

Range

Ranked Scale Questions (in a questionnaire)

Reactance

Realistic Conflict Theory

Redrawing the boundaries

Researcher effects

Resistance

Risk Management (with regard to ethics)

Self esteem

Self report data

Semi-structured interviews

Situation

Situationalist

Situational factors

Social categorisation

Social Comparison

Social Identification

Social Identity Theory

Social Impact Theory

Socialisation

Source

Stooge

Standard Deviation

Stratified Sample

Strength (of source)

Structured interviews

Super-ordinate goals

Target

Thematic Analysis

Unstructured interviews

Verbal prods

Volunteer Sample