SCLOA Concepts Flashcards

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SCLOA Principle 1

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Human beings are social animals and need to belong

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SCLOA Principle 2

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Culture influences behavior

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SCLOA Principle 3

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Humans have a collective/social self because they are social animals

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SCLOA Principle 4

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People’s views/understanding of the world are resistant to change

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Participant observation is used because…

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psychologists can see the world through the eyes of the participants

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Pros and cons of overt/covert observation?

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Covert: secrecy, confidentiality, membership to the in-group, worse observations, risk
Overt: non-judgemental, longer, more ethical

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Interviews/focus groups are used because…

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psychologists get in-depth detail

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Attribution

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Finding reasons to explain behavior

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Tendency to overestimate dispositional factors in others while underestimating

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Self-serving bias

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If you do well, it’s dispositional
If you do badly, it’s situational

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Ethical considerations?

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Zimbardo, Haney, and Banks(1971)
Asch(1955)

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Ethics

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protection, consent, right to withdraw, confidentiality, deception, debriefing

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Social Identity Theory
Cialdini et al. (1976) College sportswear
Tajfel (1970) Kandinsky/Klee

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Social categorization, Social identification, Social comparison/positive distinctiveness

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Social categorization

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Dividing people into in-groups and out-groups

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Social identification

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Adopting the identity of our in-group

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Social comparison/positive distinctiveness

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Comparing ourselves to the out-group favorably to save our self-esteem

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Stereotype(schema)
Aronson and Steele (1995)
Snyder and Swann (1978)

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mental representation and a form of social categorization of a group

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Social Learning Theory
Bandura et. al (1963) Bobo Dolls
Gergely et. al (2002) Light box

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Attention, Retention, Motor reproduction, Motivation

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Attention

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pay attention to the significant features of the model’s behaviour

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Retention

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store information about the model”s behaviour in memory

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reproduction

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physically and cognitively reproduce the desired behaviour

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Motivation

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demonstrate the learnt behaviour that has been modelled.

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Foot In The Door
Dickerson et. al(1992) shorter showers

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first asking for a small request, with the hope of persuading them to agree to a larger target request

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Conformity
Asch (1955) line length
Moscovici and Lage(1976) shades of blue

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Changing attitudes, behaviors, or definitions to fit in with a group

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Low balling Cialdini et al. (1974) 7am psychology students
Worsening an offer after a person agrees to it
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Stereotype threat
the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about an individual's group which can create cognitive load and reduce performance
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Acculturation
The process by which a person adopts another culture, while still retaining some original cultural practices
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Assimilation
adopting a new culture and losing the old culture
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