Behaviour In A social Context Flashcards
Attributions
Judgements about causes of our own and other people’s behavior and outcomes
Internal Attributions
Peoples behavior is caused by their characteristics
Situational Attributions
Aspects of situation cause behavior
- consistency
- Distinctiveness
- Consensus
Info used in making an attribution
Kelly’s theory
Situational= all 3 high Personal= Consistency is high while consensus and distinctiveness is low
Self serving bias
More personal attributions for success
More situational attributions for failures
Primacy effect
First impressions
Initial info may shape how we perceive subsequent info
Recency effect
Greater weight to most recent information
Attitude behaviour relationship strongest when
Situational factors weak
Self perception theory
Behaviour doesnt threaten self worth and attitudes weakly held
Communicator- message - channel - audience- context
Persuasion
Social facilitation
Increased tendency to perform one’s dominant response in presence of others
Conformity
Essential for norms to influence people
Adjustment of
Individual behaviours
Attitudes
Beliefs
To a group standard
Informational social influence
Cormformity because we believe others have accurate knowledge and are right
Normative social influence
Conforming to obtain reward and avoid rejection
Group size of at least 5
Presence of dissenter
Type of Culture
Gender
Factors that effect conformity
Milgram
Shocky shocky
Remoteness of victim
Closeness and legitimacy of authority figure
Someone else doing dirty work
Factors that influence destructive obedience
Compliance techniques
Norm of reciprocity
Door in face
4 reasons of Affiliation
- Obtain positive stimulation
- Receive emotional support
- Gain attention
- Social comparison
Mere exposure effect
Repeated exposure to a stimulus increases our liking for it
Broader
More areas of lives
Deeper
More intimate
Importance of self disclosure
Foster close relations
Sharing of feelings
Foster trust and intimacy
Triangular theory of love
Intimacy
Passion
Commitment
Categorization
Perception of in-groups and out-groups
Realistic conflict theory
Competition for limited resources fosters prejudice
Social identity theory
Prejudice stems from a need to enhance self-esteem
Equal status contact
Sustained close contact
Equal status of both groups
Work to achieve common goal that requires cooperation
Supported by broader social norms
Empathy altruism hypothesis
Empathy=ability to share another’s experience
Empathy produces altruism
Stimulating hypothalamus
Aggressive behaviors
Destruction
Decrease in aggression
Frontal lobes
Impulsive murderers show lower activity
Low levels of serotonin
No aggression chemical
High levels of testosterone
Social aggression
Reinforcement of aggression _______ when behaviour produced positive outcome for individual
Increases
Modeling
Positive correlation between aggressive children and parents who model aggressive behavior
