Ch #13 - Social Psychology

Question 1

Attributions

Answer 1

How we explain the causes of our own and others’ behaviors

Question 2

Situational Attribution

Answer 2

The social/physical environment influenced the behavior

Question 3

Dispositional Attribution

Answer 3

The person’s personality or other traits influenced the behavior

Question 4

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 4

Our tendency to explain others’ behaviors with dispositions and our own with situations

Question 5

Social Psychology

Answer 5

Social situations are powerful influences and individual personality difference

Question 6

Kurt Lewin

Answer 6

Jewish psychologist who came to the US to escape Nazi Germany and conducted research on the productivity and group cohesion in boys

Question 7

Autocratic

Answer 7

Dictator/tells you what to do

Question 8

Laissez Faire

Answer 8

Laid back

Question 9

Democratic

Answer 9

Guided behavior and got their input

Question 10

Stanley Milgram

Answer 10

Interested in obedience

Question 11

Obedience

Answer 11

social influence in response to direct orders from an authority figure

Question 12

Conformity

Answer 12

the adjustment of one’s opinions, judgments, or actions so that they become more consistent with others

Question 13

Phillip Zimbardo

Answer 13

Created a simulated prison in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford University and screened participants for any unusual psychological qualities