7B Social Processes that Influence Human Behavior

Question 1

Social Facilitation

Answer 1

A theory that suggests that you perform better on practiced tests with others watching and worse on unpracticed tests with others watching.

Question 2

Deindividuation

Answer 2

As depicted in the Zimbardo prison study, the elimination of human elements from people’s qualities leads to harsher acts committed against them. This can lead to antinormative behavior.

Question 3

Bystander Effect

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The idea that individuals in groups feel less inclined to take action when there are others present. When people are in a group of others, they feel less responsibility to take action.

Question 4

Social Loafing

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The idea that the group produces a reduction of individual efforts, such as in group projects.

Question 5

Social Control

Answer 5

The tendency to conform to the norms of society in a place that is surrounded by others.

Question 6

Peer Pressure

Answer 6

The phenomena that acts others commit can highly influence our own tendency to commit the same acts.

Question 7

Conformity

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The idea that is driven by a desire to reduce group tension. This is most optimal in groups of 3-5 so as to maintain group cohesion. Public response and prior commitments increase this phenomena.

Question 8

Obedience

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The idea that people are more likely to accept orders when they are under authority. People are less likely to behave according to this phenomena if they have bad moods or feel cognitive dissonance with the action.

Question 9

Informative Influence

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Going along with a group opinion when you have no idea about the topic

Question 10

Normative Influence

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Going along with a group opinion against your expertise even though you believe another course of action may be better.

Question 11

Group Polarization

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This describes the tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the individual ideas and inclinations of the members within the group. This can lead to either risky shift or choice shift.

Question 12

Groupthink

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The idea that Maintaining harmony is more important that the problem at hand and leads to a poor decision.

Question 13

Internalization

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This involves the changing of one’s behavior to fit with a group while also privately agreeing with the ideas of the group. The continuation of an action even after a group has ceased performing that action.

Question 14

Norms

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These are unwritten rules that dictate how a person should behave in a situation or in society. Ultimately, these provide a sense of social control.

Question 15

Sanctions

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These are laws that have moral and value implications with punishment if they are not followed.

Question 16

Folkways

Answer 16

These are common rules/manners that are followed or accepted in society and seen as polite.

Question 17

Mores

Answer 17

These are norms that are based in moral values/beliefs

Question 18

Taboos

Answer 18

These are cultural actions that are forbidden in any circumstance.

Question 19

Anomie

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This concept is the absence of usual cultural norms or attitudes shared among a group.

Question 20

Socialization

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The process of how individuals learn to behave in their various roles in society varied in different contexts. Primary forms occur in childhood when we learn acceptable actions and attitudes within our society. Secondary forms occur within smaller sections of the larger society.

Question 21

Agents of Socialization

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The people that drive socialization which include family, mentors, mass media, peers, and the workplace.

Question 22

Differential Association

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A behavior that is learned from exposure to other behaviors like it which are distinct from norms and laws.

Question 23

Labeling Theory

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Dictates that a behavior is deviant only if people have judged it to be. Primary deviance is okay if people do it, and secondary deviance is that less people do it.

Question 24

Strain Theory

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A theory that states if a person is blocked from obtaining a goal, they feel stressed. This leads people to deviance.

Question 25

Fads

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Behavior that gains rapid popularity and loses popularity rapidly.

Question 26

Mass Hysteria

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The idea that large groups of people spread anxiety.

Question 27

Riots

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The belief that vandalism and deviance is brought about by casting aside social norms.

Question 28

Fundamental Attribution

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The idea that people in the “out” group behave because of flaws, whereas people in our group are having the world compete against them.

Question 29

Social Action

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The effects that a group has on individual behavior.

Question 30

Social Interaction

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How two or more individuals influence each others behavior, including group polarization/groupthink

Question 31

Identity Shift Effect

Answer 31

When an individual’s state of harmony is disrupted by a threat of social rejection, the individual will often conform to the norms of the group.

Question 32

Cognitive Dissonance

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This is the simultaneous presence of two opposing thought or opinions. This leads to an internal state of discomfort that an individual will try to relieve.

Question 33

Deviance

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This refers the any violation of norms, rules or expectations within a society.

Question 34

Stigma

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This is the extreme disapproval or dislike of a person or group based on perceived differences from the rest of society.

Question 35

Compliance

Answer 35

This is the change in behavior directly mediated by a request.

Question 36

Foot in the door

Answer 36

This states that when a small request is made, after gaining acceptance a larger request is given.