Chapter 12: Social Psychology Flashcards
Attitudes (3 types)
judgments - conditions, outcomes, behavior
explicit - conscious, outspoken, outwards
implicit - unconscious, physiological, cognitive
Internal Attribution
personality, disposition, effort, talent, internalizes their failure and success
External Attribution
family income, economy, bureaucracy, lack, fate, destiny, and place fate on other people
Self-Serving Bias
internalizes SUCCESS only and block out criticism, narcissism, failure because of the rejection of constructive feedback
Self-Defeating Bias
internalizes FAILURE only and blocks out praise,low self-esteem, success and perfectionism, detrimental to mental health
Group Cohesiveness
support, bonding, identity, similarity, behavioral homphily
Group Think
shared perspectives, consensus, lack of dissent
Conformity
going with a group
obedience study - Milgram and the Learning Study
In-group, Out-group, Implicit Prejudice
in-group perception - nuance, individuality, exceptions
out-group perception - group similarities, stereotypes
“others” - can include ethnicities, religions, etc.
implicit - cognitive processing speed and somewhat involuntary
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
“special” stereotype, becomes true, scripted and unnatural
Marginalization
barriers to power, can be institutional (historical) or personal (more present objective), and intersectional (more than one barrier can be present)
Complementary Needs
Attraction Similarity
Assortative Mating
complementary needs (opposites attract), attraction similarity (likes the same things - most predominant and empirically supported), assortative mating (shares common attributes to yourself)
Criteria for Keeping Mates
reciprocity and self-disclosure is totally essential
