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Chapter 13: Social Psychology (unit 3) Flashcards

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What is the attribution theory?

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The theory is that we explain someone’s behaviour by crediting either the situation or the persons disposition.

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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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The tendency for observers, when analyzing another’s behavior, to underestimate the impact of situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.

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What do social psychologists do?

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Use scientific methods to study how people think about, influence, and relate to one another.
-They study the social influences that explain why the same person will act differently in different situations

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What is the definition of attitude?

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Feelings often influenced by her beliefs that predisposes to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
Our attitudes influence our actions.

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What is peripheral route persuasion?

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Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as the speakers attractiveness.

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What is central route persuasion?

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Occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favourable thoughts.

-because it is more thoughtful and the superficial, this form of persuasion is more durable

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What is the foot in the door phenomenon?

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The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.

  • works best if there is some amount of time, such as several days, between the first small request and the second large request
  • make sure that the first small request is almost certainly something the person will regularly agree to
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How do our actions affect our attitudes?

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We tend to stand up for what we believe in, or act in ways congruent with our beliefs.
When we do so, our attitudes are strengthened.

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What is cognitive dissonance?

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Tension we feel when our attitudes and actions clash.

-When we experience cognitive dissonance we change our attitudes to bring them in line with our actions

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What is conformity?

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Adjusting our behaviour or thinking to coincide with the group standard.

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What is a normative social influence?

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Influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.

Might not necessarily believe that others are correct, we may simply want to be like or avoid being punished

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What is informational social influence?

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Influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others opinions about reality.

  • we follow others because we think that they have accurate knowledge.
  • we have a faith that they are right and we want to be right as well
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What was the Asch experiment?

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Told to identify which line was the longest, or closest to the length of another line

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What is obedience?

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Like conformity, obedience means that we have adjusted our behaviours and beliefs to a group standard, but in this case, we have done so simply because we’ve been told to do so by someone in a position of authority

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What is the Stanley Milgram experiment?

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Teacher and student. Teacher has to shock students when they get the answers wrong.

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What are 4 factors that affect obedience?

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  1. Remoteness of the victim: if the person being harmed is out of sight, obedience is greater.
  2. Legitimacy of the authority figure: if a person wears a uniform or lab coat, or claims to be a pro presenter of a prestigious organization, obedience increases
  3. Proximity of the authority figure: if authority figure is physically present, obedience increases
  4. Cog in a wheel: when someone else does the actual physical harm, obedience increases
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What are five ways that we are influenced by the presence of others?

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  1. Social Facilitation
  2. Social Loafing
  3. Deindividuation
  4. Group Polarization
  5. Groupthink
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What is social facilitation?

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Improved performance on simple or well learned tasks in the presence of others.

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What is social loafing?

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  • the presence of others gives us the excuse to slack off.
  • The tendency for people in a group exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal then when individually accountable.
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What is deindividuation?

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  • the presence of others provides us with a loss of individuality that leads to disinhibition.
  • become anonymous and feel less responsible for our actions.
  • The loss of self-awareness and self restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
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What is group polarization?

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The presence of other like-minded individuals enhances our beliefs, sometimes to the extreme.

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What is group think?

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  • the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.
  • The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
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What is prejudice?

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Occurs when we negatively pre-judge someone based on their membership in a group.
-Often targets different cultural, ethnic, or gender group

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What is discrimination?

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Occurs when we behave based on our prejudices.

-unjustifiable negative behaviour toward a group and its members

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What is a stereotype?

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A generalized belief about a group of people

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Three reasons why we are prejudiced?

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  1. Social roots (social inequalities, just world phenomenon, in group outgroup)
  2. Emotional roots (scapegoat theory, realistic group conflict theory)
  3. Cognitive roots (categorization)
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How do social inequalities effect why we are prejudiced?

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Those that have the most feel the need to justify the inequality

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What is the just world phenomenon?

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Good is rewarded and evil is punished

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What is the in-group out-group bias?

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We identify with certain groups and contrast ourselves with others.
- We overestimate the similarity within groups to which we do not belong

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What is the scapegoat theory?

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When we are frustrated, angry, or afraid we tend to lay blame elsewhere and take it out on others.

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What is the realistic group conflict theory?

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Prejudicial attitudes stem from perceived competition for limited resources

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What is categorization?

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We simplify our world by creating schemas.

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What are schemas?

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Mental files, which are the equivalent of stereotypes, are often oversimplified and inaccurate

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What are two other reasons why we could be prejudiced?

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  1. Peer pressure/conformity: we conform to group norms
  2. the prejudice personality: maybe we inherit a sense of self importance and a tendency to see the world as black-and-white
  3. perhaps we just learn to be prejudiced
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What are four ways to minimize prejudice?

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  1. beware of stereotyping.
  2. Befriend people from another racial, ethnic, or cultural group. Focus on them as individuals not as members of a particular group.
  3. Be humble: don’t hold an attitude of superiority.
  4. be aware of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
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What is aggression?

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Any behaviour intended to injure someone physically or psychologically

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What are four psychosocial factors that lead to aggression?

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  1. Provocation.
  2. Frustration.
  3. Aversive arousal.
  4. The fundamental attribution error.
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What are the three components to attraction?

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  1. Proximity (mere exposure effect)
  2. physical attractiveness.
  3. similarity of attitudes and interests.
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What is altruism?

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An unselfish concern for the welfare of others.

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What is the bystander effect?

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Tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.
-occurs when there is a diffusion of responsibility

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What are three factors that will make someone more likely to be helped?

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People are most likely to help if they

  1. notice an accident.
  2. Interpreted as an emergency.
  3. Assume responsibility for helping.
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What is passionate love?

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And a row state of intense positive absorption into another. Usually present at the beginning of a love relationship.

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What is companionate love

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The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom I lives are intertwined.

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What factors promote a good relationship?

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Respect, acceptance, positive attributions,

  • self-disclosure
  • equity/reciprocity (equally give)
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What is the Reciprocity Norm?

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An expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them

46
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What is social responsibility norm?

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An expectation that people will help those needing their help.

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What is social psychology?

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The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

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