Chapter 13 - Social Psychology Flashcards

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Social Psychology

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To understand, predict and explain our thoughts, behaviors and feelings, by imagining or actual presence of others.

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Attitudes (ABC)

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Stable and enduring evaluations of things and people. A = Affective (how we feel. Secure)
B = Behaviour (went to work because they felt safe)
C = Cognition (believed they were safe)

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Mere Thought Effect

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More time to think. These thoughts become consistent thoughts.

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Cognitive dissonance

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When we hold a belief that contradicts our behavior. It is a state of emotional discomfort, so unpleasant we want to eliminate or remove it. When it is COMPLETELY out of character.

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Self-perception theory

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Infer our attitudes from our behaviors. Behave only slightly out of character or unsure of our attitude.

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Attitude specificity

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The more specific an attitude, the easier it is to predict behavior. (ex. Love Taylor Swift, listen to her new album day of)

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Attitude strength

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Stronger attitudes predict behavior more than weak attitudes. (ex. Passionate about gay rights, will likely join demonstration or protests in favor of gay rights)

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Social desirability

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Respond to how it would be accepted by society

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Implicit attitudes

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People are not always aware of their true attitudes, attitudes below the level of consciousness awareness.

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Mere categorization effect

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Categorizing individuals into us or them

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Realistic conflict theory

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Competition arises between different groups because of conflict over scarce resources.

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Social identity theory

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In social situations, individuals often identify as members of the group.

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Social categorization

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Affiliates with a specific group as figuring out how to act and react in the world.

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Social identity

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Person forms an identity within the group

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Central route

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Uses factual information and logical arguments to persuade. Fair amount of effort on the receivers end

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Peripheral route

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Superficial information. How attractive the spokesperson is and how amusing the message is.

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Foot in the door technique

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Getting someone to agree to a small request and then a larger one. (Why? We strive to be consistent)

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Door in the face technique

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Make an absurd first request and then follow with a smaller request

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Appeals to fear

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Seen in anti-smoking ads. Makes the receivers know something bad will happen if they don’t comply.

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Attributions

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Why people, including ourselves, do things. This is causal explanations of behavior

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Dispositional or internal

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Peoples traits as the cause of their behavior

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Situational or external

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Environmental factors as the cause of behavior

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Fundamental attribution error

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Attributions to explain the behavior of other people (ex. Someone speeding down the highway may have a sick child in their car)

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Self-serving bias

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Tend to attribute our successes to internal causes and failure to external causes. (ex. Failed a test because the grading wasn’t fair, if you passed probably wouldn’t blame external causes). It is protective for our self-esteem.

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Norms

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Society is filled with rules how to act (provides order and stability)

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Descriptive norms

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What the typical person does, rules they follow (tipping, its an option but they expect)

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Injunction norms

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Agreed-on expectations about what members ought to do (speaking quietly at a library)

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Social role

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Set of norms to a person’s social position, expectations, duties associated with the individual’s position in the family, at work and in the community.

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Conformity

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Yield to real or imagined group pressure. (ex. Attend a school with liberal beliefs, you may have liberal beliefs as you grow older)

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Asch experiment

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People conformed to the norm and gave incorrect responses at least once

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Tyranny of the majority

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Unanimity, one group member drastically reduces the likelihood that participants will conform to an incorrect group norm. Size, fewer choices, increase in conformity.

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Milgram’s experiment

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Willingness of individuals to follow orders of authorities when orders conflict with their moral judgment. We are inclined to obey even when we would have never predicted we would behave that way.

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Group dynamics

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Membership or participation in a group influences our thoughts and behaviors

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Conjunctive task

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Members are only as weak as its weakest member (ex. Hiking up a mountain)

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Disjunctive task

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Requires single solution, works better in large groups since there is someone who has the most ideas

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Divisible task

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simultaneous performance of several different activities (works better in large groups when there are more people)

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Social facilitation

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our performance is enhanced when we are in the presence of others. Not just physically, also mentally

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Social loafing

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Also known as free riding. People exert less effort on a collective task than they would in a group taskMen are more likely than women to free ride

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Group polarization

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Intensification of an initial tendency of individual group members brought by group discussion (attitudes and inclination already in place, becomes more intense).

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Faulty group decision making

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Relies on overfocused and biased thinking. Occurs when group members reach premature conclusions in a misguided effort to achieve unanimity.

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Altruism

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concern or acting to help others without any expectation of compensation or reciprocation.

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Relational aggression

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snubbing, gossiping and excluding others as a means of venting frustration or anger

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Companionate love

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high on intimacy and commitment but low on passion

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Consummate love

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High on all three components

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Secure attachment

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Relatively easy to become close to others and are comfortable depending on lover and being depended on

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Avoidant

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somewhat uncomfortable being close to others and have difficulty trusting others and depending on them

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Social neuroscience

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Combination of brain regions that operate together when people function socially. Is also known as social brain

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Orbitofrontal cortex

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subregion of the prefrontal cortex. Social reasoning, reward evaluation, reading other people and eliciting emotional state.

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Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

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subregion of the prefrontal cortex. Processes rewards and punishments (non-verbal social information)

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Insula

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region of cortex beneath the frontal cortex. Empathy and in reading others. Activated when we observe others in physical or emotional pain

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Amygdala

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control of emotions in the temporal lobe. Emotional facial expression of other people to pay particular attention to stimuli that may be unpredictable.