PSYCH 102 Exam 3 Flashcards
Scientific study of how people think, feel, & behave in social contexts
Social Psychology
Assigning causes to explain others’ behaviors
Attributions
2 Types of casual attributions
Dispositional and Situational
Explanations based on person’s disposition
Dispositional
Explanations based on current situation
situational
the tendency, when evaluating others’ behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation & to overestimate the impact of their personal disposition
fundamental attribution error
Moderated by cultural factors & familiarity with the other person
fundamental attribution error
We tend to use dispositional attributions to explain our wins & situational attributions to explain our losses.
self-serving bias
first impressions (based on attributions) affect observer’s behavior, & as a result, the first impression comes true.
self-fulfilling prophecy
feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, & events
attitudes
people like their attitudes & actions to be consistent with one another
consistency principle
state of tension that occurs when your attitudes are inconsistent with your actions.
cognitive dissonance
occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker’s attractiveness.
Peripheral route persuasion
occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.
Central route persuasion
tendency for people who’ve first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
foot-in-the-door phenomenon
adjusting behavior or thinking to go along with a group standard (no direct request)
social contagion
changing behavior in response to direct order from an authority figure
obedience
Other factors that influence behavior in the presence of others, or within a group, include:
- Social facilitation
- Social loafing
- Deindividuation
- group polarization
- When others observe us, we perform well-learned tasks more quickly and accurately.
- On new and difficult tasks, performance is slower and less accurate.
Home-team advantage
Tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
Social loafing
loss of self-awareness & self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal & anonymity
Deindividuation
discuss with like-minded others cause initial attitudes to become more extreme
group polarization
desire for harmony in decision-making group overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives
groupthink
behavior intended to harm another person
aggression
________ Influences of Aggression:
- heredity
- biochemical factors, such as testosterone and alcohol
- neural factors, such as severe head injury
Biological
_______ Influences of Aggression:
- dominating behavior
- Believing that alcohol has been ingested
- frustration
- aggressive role models
- rewards for aggressive behavior
- low self-control
Psychological
________ influences of Aggression:
- deindividuation
- Challenging environmental factors, such as crowding, heat, and direct provocations
-Parental models of aggression
- Minimal father involvement
- Rejection from a group
- Exposure to violent media
Social-Cultural
What is the #1 predictor of whether two people will fall in love or become friends?
Proximity
What is this an example of?
Ex.- People who lived next door to one another were four times more likely to become friends than people at opposite ends of the hallway.
Proximity being the number one factor to people becoming friends.
What predicts whether two people will fall in love or become friends?
familiarity | the mere exposure effect
tendency for repeated exposure to novel stimuli to increase our liking of them
familiarity | the mere exposure effect
True or False:
Opposites attract.
False
Romantic partners more alike than would be predicted by chance on:
- education level
- religious background
- ethnicity
- socioeconomic status
- personality
- physical appearance
similarity
True or False:
Like attracts like.
True
_______ involves three types of love:
- Passion
- Intimacy
- Commitment
Sternberg’s Triangle of Love
______ measures how three types of love apply to:
- Infatuation
- Affectionate love
- Fatuous love
- Consummate love
Sternberg’s Triangle of Love
Behavior that exclusively benefits another (not oneself as well)
true altruism
Suggests people feel obligated to return favors or kindness that they receive
Reciprocity norm
What is this an example of?
Ex.- A soccer player puts his coat on a child, when his teammates see him do this, they do the same thing.
Reciprocity norm
Consider costs & benefits of helping before acting.
Social-exchange theory
As costs associated with helping increases, the probability that we’ll help decreases
Social-exchange theory
What is this an example of?
Ex.- A man passes out. However, when people noticed that blood was coming out of his mouth they were less likely to help.
Social-exchange theory
Expectation that people should help those who
a.) depend on them
&
b.) can’t take care of themselves
social-responsibility norm
Phenomenon where people fail to intervene or offer help in emergency situations.
Bystander effect
Less likely to help when others are present because we assume someone else will take responsibility.
Diffusion of responsibility
What is this an example of?
Ex.- During a study a girl is working as an operator. During a call she is informed that the person she is speaking with is prone to seizures. Whenever she hears choking & the person calling for help she was less likely to help when 4 other people were in the room. However, when someone in the group told her to help she was more likely to help.
Diffusion of responsibility
We tend to _____ when we:
- Notice the incident
- Interpret the incident as an emergency
- Assume responsibility for helping
Help
Unjustifiable & usually negative attitude (but can be +) toward a group & its members
- Explicit & implicit
- 3 parts
Prejudice
Aware of feelings
explicit
unaware of feelings
implicit
Generalized (sometimes accurate) beliefs (+ or - ) about members of a group
stereotypes
Unjustifiable, negative behaviors directed toward people based on group membership
discrimination
What is this an example of?
Ex.- Whites only no blacks allowed
discrimination
Belief that good things tend to happen to good people & bad things to bad people
Just world phenomenon
a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals or groups attempt to cope with the bad things that have happened to others by assigning blame to the victim of the trauma or tragedy
Blame-the-victim dynamic
tendency to favor one’s own group, its members, its characteristics, and its products, particularly in reference to other groups.
Ingroup bias
Roots of ______:
- Scapegoat theory
- Antidote
Prejudice
an analysis of violence and aggression in which people who have undergone or who are undergoing negative experiences — such as failure or abuse by others — blame an innocent individual or group for the experience
Scapegoat theory
What is this an example of?
Ex.- “I’m feeling left out of our talk tonight and I need to vent. Can we please talk about my day?” Notice that it starts with “I feel,” leads into “I need,” and then respectfully asks to fulfill that need. There’s no blame or criticism, which prevents the discussion from escalating into an argument.
Antidote
Many claim that modern-day prejudice is increasingly _________.
implicit
Measures strength of associations between concepts via reaction time
Implicit Association Task (IAT)
Scores are commonly interpreted as a measure of implicit bias/prejudice
Implicit Association Task (IAT)
