Chapter 13 Flashcards
What is social psychology
It is the study where we try to understand how social environments affect our choices
Social Cognition
How people perceive themselves in the social world
Attitudes
How our evaluations of things are perceived (war is bad, water is good)
ABC model
Affective-emotions and feelings
Behavioural-how we behave towards and object
Cognitive-what we believe about an object
Self-perception theory
People perceive their emotions about a task based on what they observe about themselves (they like cheese because they eat it everyday
Cognitive dissonance
when there is a belief that contradict your own belief
Attitude specifcity
the more specific about the attitude the more we may enjoy it (I enjoy music, but I enjoy fire and desire by drake)
Attitude strength
The more passionate we are about something the more likely we are to do something about it
(I like league, the more likely I am to go to worlds)
Implicit attitudes
When people are unaware of the attitude
(If you are offered chocolate you are less likely to take it out of habit)
Prejudice
Negative emotions about a particular group
Central role of persuasion
Uses logic to persuade you
Peripheral route of persuasion
applies to how the delivery and person rather than facts
Foot in the door technique
When you request for something small and then request for something bigger
Door in the face
When you request for something big and outrageous and then request for something smaller
Appeals in fear
When you scare them into doing something by giving a scary fact
(HIV kills so you should get a vaccine)
Attributions
Explanations as to why we do things
Dispositional Attribtutions
Why our traits make us do things
External Attributions
Why our environment makes us do things
Actor observer bias
How two separate perspectives can differentiate how we perceive something
(actor is us and more dispositional, whereas the observer is more external)
Self serving bias
When people succeed it is because of themselves, but when they fail it is because of someone else
Social role
Social rules attributed to a person’s social position (a jng must gank and take objs)
Norms
Are social rules everyone agrees to
Group unanimity
One person in the group objects to something and then the others in the group are more likely to object
Stanford Experiment
Used volunteers to play prison guard for 2 weeks
After a short rebellion the prisoners conformed to listen to the guards because they were afraid
Quit after 6 days
Milgram experiment
An experiment that made a teacher recite words to someone else and if they couldn’t the person would be shocked it went up to 450 volts
This experiment was to test if they would listen to authority
Certain factors such as proximity and if they knew them reduced the willingness to shock
Social Facilitation
When others are present you work better
Additive work
Group members must all do work
Conjunctive work
members are only as strong as the weakest link
(you can only hike as fast as your slowest member)
Disjunctive work
Only requires 1 solutions
Divisible task
when all people do separate tasks to complete a common goal
Social Loafing
When people do less work then normally would because they think others in the group will do more
Group polarization
When group interactions intensifies an already one thought of issue
Groupthink
Avoiding conflict and the best answer but rather to find balance and harmony within the group
Altruism
the concern or acting to help because they are nice
The frustration aggression hypothesis
we become aggressive as a response to frustration
5 factors involve in liking someone
Similarity
Proximity
Self-disclosure
Situational factors
Physical Attractiveness
3 factors of love
Intimacy
passion
Commitment
