1: What is Soc Psych? Flashcards

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The scientific study of how individuals think,
feel and behave in a social context.

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Social Psychology

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Studies people’s private, even nonconscious
beliefs and attitudes; their most passionate
emotions; their heroic, cowardly, or merely
mundane public behavior

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Social Psychology

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Studies nonsocial factors that affect people’s
thoughts, emotions, motives, and actions

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Social Psychology

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Studies people’s thoughts or feelings about
nonsocial things

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Social Psychology

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Studies implied or imagined presence of others can have important effects on individuals

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Social Psychology

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It classifies people in terms of their nationality, race, socioeconomic class and other group factors.

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Sociology

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founder of social psychology as he published the first research article in social psychology

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Norman Triplett

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noted that individuals performed worse on simple tasks (Eg. pulling the rope) when they performed the task with other people
-Social loafing

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Max Ringelmann

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has the most dramatic impact on the field that psychologist question about what causes violence, prejudice, genocide, conformity, and obedience

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Adolf Hitler

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demonstration of how willing people are to conform to an obviously wrong majority

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Solomon Asch

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people try to learn about themselves by comparing themselves to others

Upward and Downward Comparison

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Leon Festinger

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research on individual’s vulnerability to the destructive commands of authority

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Stanley Milgram

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