Into to Social Psych Flashcards
In the Biblical view of human nature, what are the 3 main relationships?
Relationship with God
Relationship with one another
Relationship with creation
What is social psychology?
The scientific study of the ways in which people’s thoughts, feeling and behaviours are influenced by the real or implied pressure of other people
What is the line perception study?
Participants asked to judge which line is the same length as Line X
Paid actors given a specific role they had to play, the actual participant was at the end of the table
All of the paid participants (actors) Said a different answer that was wrong
The actual participant knew it was the wrong answer because it was obvious
¾ of the participants would conform to the incorrect answers at least once
No one was pressuring them to say the wrong thing, but they conformed to others
What is the distinction between sociology and social psychology?
Both fields examine the influence of social factors on human behaviour
What differs is the level of analysis
Social psychology: focus on the individual in the context of the situation
Sociology: Focus on society at large
what is hindsight bias?
The tendency to overestimate our ability to have been able to predict an outcome after we know the result
What did Triplett, the first social psychologist, discover?
Noticed when people were riding bikes by themself they rode slower then when with a group
Recruited groups of school aged boys nd told them to wind up the string of a fishing pole as fast as theyb could
In one condition the child was alone
In the other condition he was in the room with another child
The kids who completed the task with a peer did it faster than by themself
Social facilitation
What was Kurt Lewis’ theory?
We all have “life space”
What is social neuroscience?
A blend of traditional psychological, neuroscientific, and cognitive tests
How does the social environment shape our biology
How does being in a highly stressful situation affect our hormones
How biology affects our response to teh social environment
what are main biological influences?
Neural systems
Endocrine system
What is a sitautional attribution?
When examining our own behavior, we tend to make situational attributions
Ie. Believe that the only reason we behave oddly
What is a dispositional attribution?
When examining other behaviours, we tend to make dispositional attributions
Assume that a persons behaviour is a function of their personality
What is a fundamental attribution error?
the tendency to overestimate the general impotence of personality relative to environmental influences when explaining the causes of social behaviour
