Kin Chp 1-5

Question 1

What is social psychology?

Answer 1

• Branch of science designed to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and behavior or individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of other human beings
• 1985

Question 2

What is crowd mind?

Answer 2

• said by Plato

* I say ppl behave as a unit in a crowd

Question 3

“Eyes of a feather fly together”

Answer 3

• Homophile

* a norm/ idea spreads

Question 4

How much does iQ drop in a crowd?

Answer 4

• 10%

Question 5

What is conformity?

Answer 5

• individuals tendency to follow the unspoken rules or behaviors of the social group to which they belong to.

Question 6

What was Asch’a experiment?

Answer 6

• conformity experiment

Question 7

What decade dos Asch perform his experiment?

Answer 7

• 50’s

Question 8

What are the types of conformity?

Answer 8

1. Normative conformity

2. Informational conformity

Question 9

What is Normative conformity?

Answer 9

• yielding to group pressure because we want to fit in not be rejected
• involves compliance

Question 10

What is compliance?

Answer 10

• a person publicly accepted the views of others, but rejects them privately

Question 12

What is informational conformity?

Answer 12

• person lacks knowledge and looks to the group for guidance
• involves internalization

Question 13

Who did the experiment on obedience?

Answer 13

• Stanley Milgram

Question 14

Where did the Milgram experiment take place?

Answer 14

• Yale university

Question 15

What did Milgram want to understand?

Answer 15

• How the Ordinary ppl in WW2 (Germans) were able to follow instructions that would harm others

Question 16

What did the Milgram experiment found out?

Answer 16

• People feel less I cocked when they pass the responsibility to others

Question 17

What was the Hofling study?

Answer 17

• Nurse-Pbysician relationship

Question 18

What year did the Hofling study take place?

Answer 18

• 1966

Question 19

Who is Kitty Genovese?

Answer 19

• 28 year old woman who was murdered by 4 stabs on the back

Question 20

What year did Kitty Genovese died?

Answer 20

• 1964

Question 21

What happened during Kitty Genovese murder?

Answer 21

• Neighbors watched but no one did anything because they thought someone else would do something about it

Question 22

Who conducted the Stanford prison experiment and when?

Answer 22

• Zimbardo
• 1971
• at Stanford

Question 23

What did Zimbardo wanted to find out?

Answer 23

• whether it was the situation which caused such behavior or was it the guards responsibilities

Question 24

What did the prison experiment show?

Answer 24

1. How we change the way we act when placed in new situation
2. Norma showed what actions were appropriate
   • subjects obeyed rather than conformed
   • in real life, ppl tend to find a role in which suits their beliefs

Question 25

What is priming?

Answer 25

• Activating a particular representations or associations in memory just before carrying out an action or task
• yellow–> banana

Question 26

What is internalization?

Answer 26

• accepting the views of others and adopting it as ones own