16: Social Psychology Flashcards
What is mesmerism now known as?
Hypnotism
What did Bernheim study?
Individual and group differences in suggestability
Nancy school of thought
How did Freud explain crowd suggestability and leadership?
The crowd unconsciously believe that the leader is their father
Who critisized theories of crowd behaviour for taking the attention away from the invidiaul’s behaviour mechanisms?
Allport - attack on group fallacy
What was Allport’s attack on group fallacy?
He argued that theories of crowd suggestability were unscientific and divert attention away from the behaviour mechanism of the individual
What school of psycholgy was Lewin influenced by?
Gestalt
What is field theory?
A person’s behaviour is a function of a person and their environment and is dynamic
A person behaves in the context of their whole enviornment
Environment matters as the person perceives it
What was Lewin’s leadership experiment?
Boys assigned to different leadership styles, they were happiest and most productive under autocratic leadership
According to Lewin, which is the best style of leadership?
Autocratic
What is the autokinetic effect?
Participants were asked to judge the direction of lights and their movement in groups and alone
People converge on an average in a group of other people, closer to the norm
What was Festinger’s study of cognitive dissonance?
Students do a borning task and then must tell the next student it’s interesting for either a small or large reward.
When given £1 they rated the task as being more enjoyable than when given £20
What was the crisis of social psychology?
Do experiments cause valid results or are demand characteristics and experimenter effects the cause
Are experiments politically and ethically neutral?
