intro

Question 1

social psychology=

Answer 1

scientific study of how a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour are influenced by the real, imagined or implied presences of others

Question 2

social influence=

Answer 2

the way in which behaviour can be affected by presences of others

(why do we conform? why do we obey authority? when do we help?)

Question 3

social cognition=

Answer 3

how we process social information:
(how do we: form impressions? interpret others’ behaviour?)

Question 4

social relations:

Answer 4

how do we interact with others (how do we form bonds? How do we feel about others?)

Question 5

levels of analysis

Answer 5

-> culture +environment (economics+sociology_
–> others (social pscyh)
—–> self (clinical +personality)

Question 6

5 big ideas of social psych

Answer 6

1- situations are powerful
2. we dont know why people do what they do:
3. we dont know what we dont know:
4. amazing how accurate our judgements are:
5. people have 2 fundamental motivations:

Question 7

5 big idea: Idea number 1>situations are powerful (3)

Answer 7

• known situations can influence our perceptions of others in unexpected ways:
  >situation others are in
  (funeral/non-funeral & evaluation of ‘sadder’ for same
  face if funeral (trope, 1986)
  >situation we are in;
  (weather- if sunny day, acknowledged skin cancer liklihoos more than if not sunny (lee, gino, staats, 2014)

Question 8

5 big ideas: number 2: we dont know why people do what they do (3)

Answer 8

• fundamental attribution error= bias in attributing others’ behaviour to INTERNAL causes over situational
• actor-observer discrepency= perceive our own behaviour to be due to EXTERNAL influences but perceived others to be due to INTERNAL
• conscious experience is constructed & not always accurate> idea our ‘reality’ is the ‘true reality’> creating empathy gaps

Question 9

5 big ideas: idea number 3: we dont know what we dont know

Answer 9

• we are unaware of own biases

Question 10

Big idea number 4- amazing how accurate our judgements are

Answer 10

• adaptation= processing works best when fast, outside of awareness
• most are accurate due to automatic response ‘thin-slice’ judgements

Question 11

Big idea number 5- people have 2 fundamental motivations

Answer 11

• people want to be liked & need to belong
• people want to be accurate, consistent & authentic (consistent in eyes of others & self)

Question 12

cyber psych- features> (4)

Answer 12

• between 5-7 years of life on social media
  >increased by 62.5% from 2012-2018
• out electronics have become social surrogates
• if not paying: you are product