Exam 3 Flashcards
According to the research of Latané and Darley, which of the following situations would be the most likely in which someone would offer to help?
Person falling down coming out of an elevator with only one other person in it
The scientific study of how a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others.
Social Psychology
A change in behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people.
Conformity
A kind of thinking in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering the facts in a realistic manner.
Groupthink
The assumption that if someone does something for a person, that person should do something in return for the other.
Norm of Reciprocity
_________ comes at the direct order of an authority figure (boss, police, teacher)
_________ is following the influence of the group around you.
Obedience vs. Conformity
Studied obedience of an authority figure by having random people placed as “teachers” that would electrically shock “students” upon wrong answers on a test. Shocks became painful, however “teachers” continued with each question at an alarming rate.
Milgram’s classic research
The tendency to slack off when working in a group.
Social Loafing
This is the tendency to respond positively or negatively toward a certain person, object, idea, or situation.
A) Affect (how it affects your feelings)
B) Behavior (affects your actions)
C) Cognition (affects your thoughts)
Attitudes
The process by which one person tries to change the belief, opinion, position, or course or action of another person through arguing, pleading, explanation.
Persuasion
Sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person’s behavior does not correspond to that person’s attitude.
Cognitive Dissonance
__________ is the cause of behavior attributed to external factors such as delays, actions of others, or other aspects of the situation.
__________ is the cause of behavior attributed to internal factors like personality or character.
Situational vs. Dispositional Attributions of behavior
________ is when a person fails to take responsibility for actions or for lack of action due to the presence of other people who are seen to share the responsibility.
________ is the effect that the presence of others has on the decision to help or not help, with help becoming less likely as the number of bystanders increases.
Diffusion of Responsibility and the Bystander Effect
The process of explaining one’s own behavior and the behavior of others.
Attribution
________ is the enduring characteristics that one is born with.
________ is the unique ways in which one thinks, feels, and behaves.
Temperament and Personality
Id: chaotic and concerned with the body not with the outside world. If it feels good, Do It!
Ego: logical, rational, utilizes the power of reasoning and control to keep impulses in check. (Power of control)
Superego: moralistic and idealistic portion of personality.
Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality
________ is focused on the surrounding environment and it’s affect on behavior.
Behaviorist theory of personality
Carl Jung
Disagreed with Freud, rather he believed that the unconscious was not limited to an individuals unique life experieces but was filled with fundamental psychological truths shared by the whole human race (collective unconscious).
- collective unconscious
- archetypes
- analytic psychology
Reciprocal Determinism
Bandura thinks there are 3 factors that influence behavior:
1) The environment (which consists of physical surroundings and the potential for reinforcement)
2) The person (Personal/cognitive characteristics that have been rewarded in the past)
3) The behavior itself (which may or may not be reinforced at this particular time and place)
These 3 factors each affect the other two in a reciprocal, or give-and-take, relationship.
Self-Efficancy
A person’s belief about his or her ability to perform a particular goal/task successfully.
The tendency for people to assume that they either have control or do not have control over events and consequences on their lives.
Locus of Control
Carl Roger’s beliefs about: What is the real self? What is the ideal self? What happens when those selves are similar (or ideally, the same)? What happens when they differ?
- Real self - who a person actually is.
- Ideal self - What a person wants to be like. Influence by others.
- If matched closely - an individual has a positive self-concept
- If mismatched - anxiety will prevail