Ch 12- Social Psyhc Flashcards
What is social psychology
How people influence each other’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors in a society
Less about social anxiety and more about the relationships formed
Verbal and nonverbal cues
People infer and analyze social cues/ judges people (verbal and nonverbal cues)
This is mostly about basic biological facial expression readings (nonverbal cues are harder to be accurate about)
* a little dreadful because I literally am trying to remove myself from the thought that people are analyszing me as humanely and innately as I think they do based on this human trait
Attributions (to behaviors)
Effects of situations
Explanations for events, and people’s behavior towards those events are attributions
EX: explain event - explaining poverty (phenomenon)
Can be controllable to uncontrollable (situational), and permanent or temporary (
Types: dispositional , situational, fundamental, observer bias
Dispositional attributions
PEOPLE’s abilities, traits, moods or personal efforts ATTRIBUTE to why the situation happened or how they react
A GENERAL process of humans, not exactly as BIAS
EX: attribute poverty to a lack of work ethic in people, when rlly its situational
Situational attributions
Context attribes to the situation
A GENERAL process of humans, not exactly as BIAS
EX: weather, luck, OTHER people’s actions
EX: attribute poverty to capitalism
World hypothesis (social psych)
We want to give a reason (attribute) to every thing that happens (situation), since humans dont like to trust luck or chance
Simplistic and wrong (NO NUANCE)
Gives their world sanity, so instead of investigating the outskirts of the universe, we stay blissfully ignorant with our own simple conclusions and reasons
** ignorance is bliss (no politics)
Bias in attributions
Overestimate personality traits and underestimate situations (basically the situational vs. dispositional thing I covered earlier)
Types: fundamental (simplicity but not giving enough credit to external - dispositional) , observer bias (nuance but not giving enough credit- situational)
Fundamental attribution error (about other people)
This is a fancy term for how we analyze people’S!!! ACTIONS or events instinctively from our societally conditioned way of emphasis on personality and egocentric ideas of what we do to change or lives
UD: observer bias only but explaining behavior in general through this OVEREmPHASIS
Actor/observer bias (about yourself and IN TURN!! others)
Actor- attribute outcome to your context (i know for a fact that I didn’t interact today because I have depression but people don’t know that)
Observer- attribute same outcome to personality traits (you know less about other peoples contexts- Asian cultures
“Actor/observer” isn’t them apart, but how they depend on each other-> SINCE we analyze ourselves this way, !!!! this analysis stems into our lack of understanding of others context even tho we do to ourselves
KEY- actor/observer is when you actually acknowledge that you would act that same way if your were in the situation, but dont (see !!!) . FAE is without this consideration
Social facilitation (how people work in groups)
Basic tasks are learned best when other peopel are aroudn (motivation to beat other people in a game of pedaling bike pedals)
But pressure from them comes with harder tasks
Social loafing (decision making)
You don’t feel PERSONALLY responsible to make something happen when you KNOW that there are other active Minds around you and at least ONE of them is bound to make things happen
Their def- ind effort decreases
EX: I will not feel particularly, solely responsible for saving the world when there are plenty of scientists and experts out here -> !! Deindividuation
Deindivduation
Basically what I described in social loafing/ what contributes directly to it
BUT it also contributes to loss of inhibition, so not social loafing, but social drinking or making a fool of yourself because you know that some many minds in the area are too overwhelming for you to circle back around to your own mind and hence what you think they think
EX: looting, anonymity, mobs, military sheeps
Another wya to think of it is situations that make you a sheep so you do anything that the other sheep are doing cuz you know it wont look as weird as opposed to if you were doing it without the other sheep
MS: large town = anonymity -> deindividuation, “others started it, not me”
Conformity (informational and normative)
The ACT of becoming that non-self aware sheepy meme
Reasons we do this- normative influences (group things), informational influence (assume the group is societal golden rule to mold you)
EX for informational: see ppl doing a social cue, so you assume they’re doing the right social cue and follow them through the parking lot to find the exit
EX for info : also “going against the group”
Social norms
Facing the elevator door when on an elevator
MS: complianc=e, INFORMATIONAL influence
Works best with people that are introverted because no one even questions or wants to go into discussion about it (since yes ppl may ask initially but not many ask about the logistics)
Compliance
Goes hand in hand with social norms
When you follow them because they TELL YOU TO
Only works bets when your susceptible/ gullible towards iT (like hypnosis)
Not obedience where there is literally a person in command (society commands)
MS: door-in face strategy
Door in face strategy
More likely to agree to small request after refusing a large one
Do me this solid-> “no anything but that bro pls”
Lowballing
Here’s thsi cheap price.
Oh you you agreed to pay it, well circumstances change so its higher now.
You are still more likely to buy it because you accepted the offer teh first time.
Group interactions proof
Confederates are moles in research that act like they dont know what’s up, so when they act calm for too long, you start to panic like bro am i rlly gonna have to be the one to speak up rn??
I feel like NPC peers do this shit to me
