Psy exam 5

Question 1

What is Social Cognition?

Answer 1

It’s how we think about people and ourselves.

Question 2

What is Social Influence?

Answer 2

How situations influence us.

Question 3

What is Attitude?

Answer 3

Is a predisposition to respond to a particular object in a particular way.

Question 4

What are the three components of Attitude?

Answer 4

1. Cognitive
2. Affective
3. Behavior

Question 5

What is Cognitive component of attitude?

Answer 5

is a set of beliefs of what you think.

You measure it with questionnaires, verbal interviews.
Stereotypes are cognitive.

Question 6

What is the Affective Component?

Answer 6

How emotional you are.

Measured by heart rate, respiration, GSR.

Prejudice is Affective

Question 7

What is the Behavioral component of attitude?

Answer 7

What you’re going to is an action, that directs behavioral observation.

Discrimination is Behavioral.

Question 8

What was the Lapiere Study?

Answer 8

Lapiere wanted to study prejudice against Chinese in 1934. The study showed that what you think and feel is not always how you act.

Question 9

What is Social Psychology?

Answer 9

A study that looks at how other people influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

Question 10

What research suggest about Stereotyping?

Answer 10

That is inevitable and automatic.

Question 11

What are in-groups?

Answer 11

A group you belong to. These groups you tend to think look better and act better. Think to be better mannered.

Question 12

What are out groups?

Answer 12

Any group you don’t perceive yourself to be a part of. In this group you think people are all similar to each other. This is called the Out Group Homogeneity effect.

Question 13

What is a Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 13

People think you are smart and you are lead to be smart.

Question 14

What is stereotype threat?

Answer 14

Refers to a negative stereotype that leads people to live up to that stereotype.

Question 15

What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?

Answer 15

When describing the behavior of others, we tend to overestimate the role of dispositional causes and underestimate the role of the situational causes.

Question 16

What is the Actor Observer Bias?

Answer 16

We tend to attribute our own behavior to situational causes, while attributing the behavior of others to dispositional causes.

Question 17

What is a Self Serving Bias?

Answer 17

We tend to attribute our success to dispositional causes and attribute our failure to situational causes.

Question 18

What is Unrealistic Optimism?

Answer 18

That we tend to over estimate what good things will happen to us and under estimate what bad things will happen to us.

Question 19

What is the self-effacing bias?

Answer 19

It is prominent In Japan. It’s the opposite of the American idea of a self serving bias.

Question 20

What is Social Influence?

Answer 20

An interest in “Groups”. Groups create roles. Roles - A shared expectation on how someone should act in a group.

Question 21

What was the Stanford Prison Study?

Answer 21

Zimbardo created a fake prison. Used college students. Flip of a coin was used to decided who was a guard or a prisoner.

Question 22

What is the power of the situation?

Answer 22

Taken in by the power of the situation. Roles are extremely influential and the Power of the Situation can over power your personality.

Question 23

What is conformity?

Answer 23

A change in beliefs or behavior in response to group pressure, when we know one in the group requests this change.

Question 24

What did Asch observe about college students when looking at conformity?

Answer 24

He observed that with the lines experiment 37% would conform every time and 75% Conformed at least 1.

Question 25

What is obedience?

Answer 25

When some sort of authority figure tells you to do something you’ll listen without question.

Question 26

What was the Milgram Study?

Answer 26

Was a study done in Yale. Where people were asked question and when they got them wrong the person who was asked the question thought they shocked them. 65% of people kept going even though they thought they were shocking at the max level. The changed the level of prestige and it dropped to 48% going to the max. Proximity was changed and it dropped to 23%

Question 27

What is personal behavior?

Answer 27

More likely to help someone who serves as a model person/ in a good mood.

Question 28

What is the Bystander Effect?

Answer 28

The more people that are around the less likely they are to help. Less likely to feel responsible.

Question 29

What is Diffusion of Responsibility?

Answer 29

In a group responsibly is spread out.

Question 30

What does Psychiatry use?

Answer 30

Studies medicine and is less inclined to practice Psycho therapy.

Question 31

What does a Clinical Psychology use?

Answer 31

Doesn’t prescribe medicine. They talk about what causes problems like depression.

Question 32

What is the first thing you look for to find Psychological disorders?

Answer 32

1. Look for deviations from statistical Norms.

Question 33

What is the 2nd thing you look for to find Psychological disorders?

Answer 33

Social norms- deviation from social norms.

Question 34

What is the third thing you look for to find Psychological disorders?

Answer 34

Maladaptiveness- doing something unhealthy or negative the effects themselves or someone else.

Question 35

What is the 4th thing you look for to find Psychological disorders?

Answer 35

Personal Distress

Question 36

What is DSM?

Answer 36

Has descriptions of disorders, how to diagnose based on the current situation. It’s constantly under revision.

Question 37

What was the Rosenhan study?

Answer 37

A test in whether Psy hospital where good at measuring Psychiatry diagnosis. He uses his friends as Pseudo patients. They all got diagnosed with schizophrenia. From saying they had voices in their head.

Question 38

The Rosenhen Study illustrated what about the hospitals?

Answer 38

That they weren’t very good at the diagnosing. So the system was no functioning correctly. It also showed that once someone got a label they were looked at through that label.

Question 39

What did Szasz believe about a mental illness?

Answer 39

He believed mental illness is a myth. He believed that labeling people only makes them keeping acting like that.
Would say that instead of a mental illness it should be described as problem in living.