BASIC OVERVIEW Flashcards

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How do we interpret other people?

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mental states, face, gestures, movements and tone of voice

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What is social psychology and what does it seek to understand?

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  • is the scientific study of the effects of social and cognitive processes on the way individuals perceive, influence and relate to others
  • seeks to understand the processes that shape social behaviour
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What are cognitive processes?

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our memories, perceptions, thoughts and emotions guide our understanding of the world and our actions

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What is meant by ‘group in the individual’?

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other peoples beliefs, desires and expectations remain in our thoughts affecting us even when we are physically alone

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What is meant by ‘individual in the group’?

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others people influences, even when they are present, depend on the ways we perceive and interpret them - others arguments or comments in a group depends on how we think about those people and comments

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What is meant by implicit and explicit processes?

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social influence can be obvious but also subtle

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What are the 3 main areas of social psychology?

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  • social thinking
  • social influence
  • social behaviour
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What is meant by social thinking?

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  • how we define the self and how we think about people
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What is meant by social influence?

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  • conformity, prejudice and persuasion
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What is meant by social behaviour?

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  • helping, aggression, romantic relationships
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When was social psychology first considered?

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  • domain of philosophy
  • late 19th century - researchers in Germany liked lab methods used by physiologists and made similiar experimental methods to understand mental processes
  • 1920s- became dominated by behaviourism- behaviour only explained by observable causes
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In early social psychology, how was behaviour deemed to be influenced by presence of others?

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Ringelmann 1880s- when people worked together to pull on a rope, they put less effort into the task than when they worked alone

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How did Nazism influence the development of social psychology?

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  • motivated the study of roots of prejudice and group hatred
    -began to discover importance of social and culture groups - Sheriff 1936
  • demands of wartime motivated research that could be applied- persuasion techniques- Kurt Lewin
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What did Ringelmann 1880s demonstrate?

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  • when people worked together to pull on a rope, they put less effort into the task than when they worked alone
  • how behaviour is influenced by presence of others
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What did Sherif 1936 demonstrate?

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  • demonstrated that social group can influence a persons perception and interpretation of physical reality
  • nazism- in discovering importance of culture and social groups
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What did Kurt Lewin demonstrate?

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-exemplifies link of basic research and important applications eg conditions post WW2; food shortages
- nazism

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What occurred from the 1960s onwards?

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Integration

18
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What is cultural psychology?

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  • how cultures reflect and shape psychological processes of members
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What is evolutionary psychology?

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  • memory, perception or language considered as products of natural selection
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What is the embodiment perspective?

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  • psychological processes influenced by body morphology and sensory systems
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What is neuroscience?

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  • scientific study of nervous system
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What is construction of reality?

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  • the axiom that reality is shaped by cognitive processes and social processes
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What is pervasiveness of social influence?

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  • the axiom that other people influence virtually all our thoughts, feelings and behaviour
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What is seeking connectedness?

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  • motivational principle that people seek support and acceptance from people they care about and value