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PSYC121 weeks 1-5 Flashcards

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What was Albert Bandura study about?

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observational learning of agression (bobo-doll)

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Define utilitarianism

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Theory of mortality that advocates action that cause happiness & pleasure and oppose actions that cause unhappiness & harm

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What theory did Jeremey Bentham believe

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“Actions are morally right if they tend to promote happiness/ pleasure among all those affected

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What theory did Gustave Le Bon create

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Crowd theory - the crowd is a social unity with a mind of its own

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Who did one of the earliest psychological experiment & what was it

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Norman Triplett - saw that cyclists would ride faster when in the presents of other cyclists - social facilitation. Conducted the fishing reel experiment

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Define social facilitations

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Person’s preformance on a task can be influenced by the presents of others

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Define conformity

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Compliance with standards, rules or laws / behaviour accordance with socially acceptable conventions

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Who did the line conformity experiment and what was he trying to find?

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Soloman Asch - How pressure from a group can lead to comformity

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Types of conformity (2)

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Informational influence - More likely to conform if confederates show to be more competent
Normative influence: influence of other people that leads us to conform in order to be liked and accepted by them

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Define compliance and what type of conformity it is

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Normative influence - conforming due to the concern about how others will perceive them

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Define conversion & what type of conformity it is

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Informative influence - Conforming due to belief that others are right

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What were Hofstede’s cultural values (6)

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Individualist/collectivistic
Masculine/feminine
Uncertainty, avoidance
Power, distance
Time, perspective
Indulgence, restraint

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What is an attribution and the 2 types?

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Are the causes that we see as responsible or things that happen in the world
Internal & External

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Define correspondence bias

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Tendency to believe others behaviours is caused by internal dispositions rather than situational constraints e.g. u see a person speeding you are going to assume they’re a reckless driver rather than they’re rushing to the hospital

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Define self-serving bias

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Tendency to believe our own positive outcomes are caused by internal stable causes and negative outcomes to external unstable factors
e.g. Take credit for our success and blame external factors for our failures

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Who did the Standford Prison experiment

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Philip Zimbardo

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Depersonalisation - Zimbardo’s Study

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Switch to group level self categorisation (think of yourself as prisoner or guard) - loss of personhood)

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Define Deindividualisation (zimbardo’s study)

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Loss of self awareness in groups (uniforms, numbers instead of names)

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Define Cognitive dissonance

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The discomfort a person feels when their behaviour does not align with their values or beliefs

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Define authoritarian personality

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People who have extreme respect for authority & likely to be obedient

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What was Max Ringlemann’s findings?

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Individuals feel less obligated to participate when in a group

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What were Latane & Darley’s findings?

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The presence of other inhibits people’s response in an emergency - more people = slower the reaction

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Big 5 personality traits (O.C.E.A.N)

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Extraversion
Agreeableness
Openness
Conscientiousness
Neuroticism

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Who discovered the Machiavellian Personality

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Chritie & Geis

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Characteristics of Machiavellian
Lack of interpersonal relationships Lack of gross psychopathology Low 'ideological' commitment
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Types of Authoritarian & who found them
Bob Altemeyer Authoritarian submission - People should do as they're told by authorities Authoritarian aggression - If people don't do as they're told they should be punished Conventionalism - Have a preference for traditional in social relationships
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What did Robert Rosenthal find?
- Pygmalin effect - Found that if the leaders expectations of the followers = followers performance will increase
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What is the Golem effect?
Lower expectations placed upon individuals either by the supervisors or the individuals themselves lead to poorer performance by the individual
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Who did the obedience study?
Stanley milgram - electric shock
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What experiment fuelled theory of cognitive dissonance
Leon Fistinger's investigation on Dorothy Marten. She warned the world would end. On the day she said aliens would come, nothing happened. The findings contradicted her belief, YET most of her followers reaffirmed their belief.
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Define cognitive dissonance
Discomfort people feel when their behaviour doesn't align with their values
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Who had the first theory about functionalism & what was it?
William James - Mind is a functional tool that allows organisms to adapt to the environment
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What was Sigmund Freud's theory ?
Psychoanalysis theory - That human behaviour is influenced by unconscious memories, childhood experiences & thoughts
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Who developed classic conditioning & define
Ivan Pavlov - explains how people associate two stimuli in their minds and react to one of them as though it was the other - e.g when a dog it trained, the trainerings can pair the sound of the clicker with food = sound of clicker will produce same repsonse as food
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Who did the little Albert experiment? & what was the findings
John. B. Watson - He was able to condition Albert into being afraid of something he wasn't previously afraid of
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B.F. Skinner discovered...
Importance of reinforcement & punishment in shaping behaviour
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define Introspection
When someone examines their own conscious/mental state
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Who discovered structuralism
Edward B. Titchener - focused on the mental process rather than the function
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Define deterministic view
Outside factors determine psychological behaviour and are out of your control
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Define behaviourism
theory learning based on the idea that all behaviours are acquired through conditioning, and conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment
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Define social psychology
social interactions, including their origins and their effects on individuals and the world around us
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Define punitive socialisation
idea that being punished as a child leads to authoritarianism
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Define cognitive dissonance
A feeling of uncomfortable tension that comes from holding two conflicting thoughts at the same time
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4 common bioethical principles
respect for autonomy beneficence malefinance justice
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Define emic
Refers to the perspective used to study or describe a culture or language from an insider's point of view
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Define Etic
Refers to a perspective used to study or describe a culture or language from an outsider's point of view.
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Define empiricism
Idea that all learning comes from only experiences & observations
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Soloman Asch main findings
- 75% of people conformed at least once - In a group people are more likely to conform - Less conformity when gave answers privately
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Stanley Milgram main findings
- 65% delivered the maximum shock - Under certain circumstances ordinary people will obey any orders
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Factors that caused less obedience in Milgram's study
- No experimenter - would administer fake shocks Proximity of authority impacts obedience
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Factors that caused less conformity in Asch's study
- If one other person gave the right answer
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Psychopathy is characterised by:
- Emotional deficits - Inability to read emotions and empathise - More calloused - Tend to have a history of short unsatisfying relationships - Inability to control impulses.
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How to do psych summary statement
r (DF) = (r value, 2 d.p. no zero) , p = (p value, 3 d.p, no zero) example: r (10) = .25, p = .345 (italicise r and p)
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What is a independent variable
Variable that changes to see how it effects another variable
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What is the dependent variable
Variable that is measured
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What is a confounding variable
Variables that may also impact on dependent variable which impacts our ability to put down changes to independent variable
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Sherif (1935) study
The Autokinetic Effect - conformity in unambiguous situations
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Condition A vs B in Sherifs study
Condition A = estimates alone for 3 days, estimates in groups day 4 Condition B = estimates in groups for 3 days, estimates alone day 4
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Conclusion in Sheriffs Trial
In ambiguous situations, individuals develop frames of reference for future comparisons. Frame of reference developed alone persists in groups, but may not be as stable. A frame of reference developed in a group persists when alone
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Independent and dependent variable in Asch experiment
Independent = being in a group vs alone Dependent = agree with confederates or not
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Results of Asch study
Control group - 0.7% average error rate Experimental group - 37% error rate 1 in 3 chance of conformity even though the confederates were obviously wrong.
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How did Asch prove informational influence
Conformity increased if there were more neutral trials at the start - gives participant more reason to trust that other people are good at what they're doing
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How did Asch prove normative influence
increasing interdependence of participants by promising a reward to most accurate groups, conformity will increase.
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What affects conformity (4 things)
Competing context, Group membership, Consistency within the group, Group Size
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How did Asch show normative influence
public responses more likely to show conformity that private (shows normative influence)
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Group consistency influence on conformity
If one single confederate acts as a supporter, conformity dropped to 5.5%, even if the dissenting confederate was wrong (but disagreed with the majority) - only applicable in unambiguous situations

PSYC121 & 122 (13 decks)

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