Vocabulary

• Altruism doing something for the benefit of others without expecting anything in return.
• Bystanderism -the phenomenon of not helping when someone is in need.
• Compliance -Acting in a way that is consistent with someone else’s wishes or commands.

   
• Confabulation - The process of remembering something incorrectly or recalling something that never happened as if it did.

   
• Confirmation bias - The tendency to focus on and remember information that is consistent with existing beliefs (and ignore contradictory details)
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  Diffusion of responsibility When the feeling of responsibility to act is reduced because of the presence of other people ( you might think someone else will help)
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  Empathy the ability to imagine how the other person is feeling

   
• Information processing - acquiring, recording, and organizing information and how it is placed in memory and retrieved
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  Informational social influence - When someone's behaviour is changed as a result of looking towards others for information on how to act in an ambiguous situation.
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  Leading questions - A question that is phrased in a way so that it directs the respondent towards providing a particular answer. 
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  Misinformation effect -The phenomenon of having a false memory implanted by exposing participants to misleading information.

   
• Population density -The number of people living per sq mile/kil in a particular area.
• Prosocial behaviour Behaving in a way that benefits others
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  Rationalization According to Bartlett’s schema theory, this is the process of details of memory being changed or omitted(left out) because they are inconsistent with an existing schema.
• Reconstructive memory - The nature of memory as being susceptible to manipulation because it is a product of conscious reconstructing processes
• SchemaA cognitive framework that organises our stored memories and clusters of knowledge.
• Schema theory The hypothesis that we have cognitive frameworks that organise our memories and knowledge.
• Schematic Processing The use of existing schema when processing new information.
• Schema Activation: the process by which prior knowledge, or schema, is activated and integrated with new information or experiences