Chapter 14 Social Psychology

Question 1

When we attribute someone’s behavior to factors internal to that person. For example, intelligence, attitude, and skills

Answer 1

Dispositional

Question 2

When we attribute someone’s behavior to factors external to the person. For example, environments and situations they are in

Answer 2

Situational

Question 3

What is a fundamental attribution error?

Answer 3

It is a bias where we overestimate the role of dispositional factors, factors internal to that person like they’re personality and underestimate the role of situational factors

Question 4

Example of fundamental attribution error

Answer 4

A student receives bad grades and we assume it’s because they’re dumb or lazy, but we overlook situational factors like if they were working instead of studying to support their family .

Question 5

What is the actor observer affect?

Answer 5

It is how we tend to make different attributions about behavior depending on wether we are the actor, the person performing the behavior or the observer, the person watching someone perform.

Question 6

Milgrams obedience to authority study results

Answer 6

All 40 of the subjects delivers the 300 shock volt
65% of all the subjects went to the 400 volt level

Question 7

When is Obedience the highest?

Answer 7

1. When the person giving the orders are nearby and perceived to be a legitimate authority figure
2. When the victim was depersonalized and distanced
   3. When there were no role models for defiance, so they were not able to see someone stand up for the victim

Question 8

Ashc 1955, would the 6th subject go along with the wrong answer?

Answer 8

35% of the time the subject gave the wrong answer rather than differing from the rest of the group

Question 9

Our social desire to gain social approval and avoid social disapproval

Answer 9

Normative social influemce

Question 10

Social norms

Answer 10

Rules for accepted and expected behavior in our society

Question 11

Informational social influence

Answer 11

When we don’t know how to act so we look at their people to see what they’re doing assuming they know

Question 12

Social facilitation

Answer 12

Tendency for people to perform better in the presence of other people

Question 13

Bystander effect

Answer 13

Tendency for bystanders to be less likely to help if only other bystanders are present