social psychology

what are the different types of bias?

Stereotyping, gender bias, regional or geographical bias, ethic or cultural bias, socioeconomic or class bias, religious bias, ageism, bias against persons with disabilities, and experiential bias

what was the major flaw in the Stanford Prison experiment?

Zimbardo did not use a control group

aggression

any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy

what are the different types of persuasion?

ethos, pathos, logos

Discrimination

in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

prejudice

preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience

Who was Stanley Milgram?

social psychology professor at Yale who wanted to test the defense of "I was just following orders" typically used by accused Nazis

What is groupthink?

the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives