Chapter 1- Intro Flashcards

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How do other people can influence us without being physically present?

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As long as someone is being influenced in any way by another individual, including their imagined presence/actions, the situation is relevant to social psychology.

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Someone is wondering what their mom, romantic partner, or close friend would think of their behavior. What concept is this an example of?

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The less obvious ways people can influence our behavior.

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A bystander is wondering whether to help at the scene of a car accident. Other cars are just driving by and they decide to do the same. What concept is an example of?

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How we use other people to interpret our world.

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Define: social contruals

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How individuals’ personally interpret or perceive a social situation.

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Why do social psychologists to focus on the individual?

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Because people respond to their subjective perceptions of the world around them rather than the perhaps more accurate reality.

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What are the 3 flaws in common sense understandings of social psychology shown by the sayings ‘Birds of a feather flock together’ and ‘Opposites attract’?

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Common sense often allows competing predictions, is very vague/simplistic and is not always correct.

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When did social psychology emerge as its own field?

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Social psychology emerged as its own distinct field in psychology in the 1950s.

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Which facet of social psychology is based upon a concept from the philosopher Plato?

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The idea that people experience the world in three distinct ways: in thought, emotions and in actions.

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How does philosophy’s concept of the social contract help inform social psychology?

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Modern social psychologists use the concept to show that we have norms in society and explain various social behaviours.

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Define: social contract

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The idea that every society has a basic set of social and moral rules which all members have implicitly agreed to follow, an absence of which leads to societal breakdown.

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In which year did the earliest social psychological publication appear?

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The earliest social psychological publication appeared in 1898.

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Define/explain: Gestalt theory

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Says that people’s overall, subjective interpretations of objects are more important than the objects’ physical features.

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Who is Kurt Lewin?

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He is considered the father of modern social psychology.

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Define/explain: behaviourism

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A psychological approach that assumes that behaviour can be explained purely in terms of stimulus, responses established through experience and reinforcement. They see children as blank slates.

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