Social Flashcards

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Social Cognition

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Making sense of information around us

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Social Perception

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  • Understand and make judgements of other people’s behaviours
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Social Interaction

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Process by which people interact with each other

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Person Perspective

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Characteristics that individuals carry into social situations

  • E.G. Self esteem, extraversion
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Situational Perspective

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Environmental and circumstances outside of the person’s control

  • E.G. Social norms in Uni vs in a pub
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Attribution Theory

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Giving a casual explanation for someone’s behavior, crediting either internal dispositions (personality) or external situations

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Covariation Model

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People ask themselves questions to determine if they will make an internal or external attribution

  1. Consistency information: Does the actor behave the same toward the stimulus in different situations
  2. Consensus Information: Do other people behave the same toward the stimulus?
  3. Distinctiveness Information: Does the actor behave the same toward different stimuli?
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Correspondence Bias/Fundamental Attribution Error

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Tendency to over-attribute behaviour to personality traits and underestimate situational influence

  • E.G. See someone speeding and assume they are reckless driver
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Quiz Show Paradigm

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Attitudes

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Organisation of belief, feelings and behaviour tendencies toward people

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Measurements of attitudes

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  1. Explicit attitudes - Conscious
    E.G. People fake their response because they don’t want reseracher to think negatively of them
  2. Implict attitudes - Unconscious
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Implicit Association Test (HAT)

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Findings: If you have pre-existing association between “flowers and good words” it should take you longer to respond to “flower and bad words”

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Theory of Reasoned Action

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  • Behavior change is determined by the intention to perform a behavior
  • See docs
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Theory of Planned Behaviour

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  • Easy or difficulty of performing behaviour added to Theory of Reasoned Action
  • See docs
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Cognitive Dissonances

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  • State of conflict after they make a particular decision
  • Makes us feel unpleasant so we are motivated to CHANGE BEHAVIOUR, CHANGE OPINION, ADD NEW COGNITIONS
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Reasons for Attitude Shift

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  1. Motivational - Reduce tension of holding two opposing beliefs
  2. Purely Cognitive - Observe own behaviour
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Elaboration Likelihood Model

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  • How people can be persuaded
  • See docs
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Elaboration Likelihood Model: CENTRAL ROUTE

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  • Thinks carefully about the message
  • Pay attention to quality of argument
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Elaboration Likelihood Model: PERIPHERAL MODEL

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Emotional appeal

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Stereotypes

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Characteristics and beliefs about a group

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Prejudice

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Positive or negative attitude towards a group

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Discrimination

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Harmful behaviour towards a group

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Causes of Stereotypes

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  • Social Identity Theory - Categorise people into “us” and “them” groups
  • Stereotypes are transmitted through culture and society
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Causes of Prejudice

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  • Social Identity Theory - Categorise people into “us” and “them” groups
  • Competition over scarce resources
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Compliance

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People try to persuade your opinion attitude

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Conformity

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Tendency for people to adopt the attitudes of other members of a reference group

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Obedience

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Compliance with an authority figure

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Types of Social Influence

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  1. Informational Influence - individuals desire behaving in the “correct” way
  2. Normative influence - individuals desire to be accepted
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Informational Social Influence - Autokinetic Effect

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  • Participant asked to judge how far a light moved, when light did not actually move
  • Findings: Participants make their estimate in a group setting, and over time, the estimates of the group converged
  • PRIVATE ACCEPTANCE
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Normative Social Influence - Line Studies

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  • People seated around a table with only one real participant and other are working with the experiment
  • Findings: Overall 33% of trials in which fake participants gave wrong answer, the real participants gave the same wrong answer
  • PUBLIC COMPLIANCE
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Factors Affecting Conformity

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  • Ambiguity
  • Need to be accurate
  • Unanimity
  • Admiration of the status of the group
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Minority Influence

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  • Numerical or power minority can change the behaviours of the majority
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Moscovici, Lage, & Naffrechoux (1969)

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  • Findings: When minority was consistent, real participants conformed 9% of the time
  • Findings: When minority was inconsistent, real participants conformed 2% of the time
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Conversion Effect

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  • Minority influence brings about private acceptance in the attitudes of a majority
  • Many majority groups are not strong believers
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Obedience

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Compliance with an authority figure

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Milgram’s (1963)

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  • Everytime learner gets something wrong, he gets shocked by teacher and increases by 15V every time but shock machine is fake
  • 26 participants out of 40 only stopped at 450V
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Why do we obey?

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  1. Informational social influence
  2. Normative social influence
  3. Self Justification
  4. Loss of personal responsibility
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Prosocial Behaviour

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Behaving in a way that is good for other people or society

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Helping Behaviour

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Acts that intentionally benefit someone else

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Altruism

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Help other people even when there is

  • No apparent personal gain
  • Potential costs to helper
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Social Norms

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Expectations for a group regarding acceptable and appropriate attitudes and behaviours

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Evolutionary Social Psychology

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  • Kin Selection (natural selection of favourable behaviours)
  • Reciprocity
  • Mutually cooperative behaviour
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Social Exchange Theory

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People will help if benefits outweigh costs

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Social Roles

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Socially defined pattern of behaviour that is expected of a person

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Altruistic Helping

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Motivated by empathy

  • Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis - empathise with someone that gives rise to altruistic motivation to help others
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Egoistic Helping

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Motivated to get something in return

  • Negative-State Relief Hypothesis - help to feel better about yourself
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Influences on Prosocial Behaviour

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  • Individual Differences
  • Situational Factors
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Influences on Prosocial Behaviour: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

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  • Personality
  • Gender
  • Mood
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Influences on Prosocial Behaviour: SITUATIONAL FACTORS

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Bystander Effect - people are less likely to help in the presence of others than when alone

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5 Step Model

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  1. Notice the event
  2. Interpret the event as emergency
  3. Assume responsibility
  4. Know appropriate form of assistance
  5. Implement decision
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Proximity/Propinquity

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The more we see and interact with person, the more we like them

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Mere Exposure Effect

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  • Repeated exposure to an object results in greater attraction to that object
  • Can be positive or negative
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Reciprocity

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  • We like those who like us
  • We dislike those who dislike u
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Similarity

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  • Similarity in terms of opinions, attitudes and interest
  • Not necessarily personality traits
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Similarity Promotes Attraction

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  • Similar others have qualities we like
  • Similar others validate our beliefs
  • We make negative inferences about people who disagree with us
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Passionate Love

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  • Ecstatic
  • Physically arousing
  • Desire for physical contact
  • Sadness when things are not going well
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Companionate Love

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  • Intimate
  • Soul mates
  • Commitment to the relationship
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Good and Bad in Relationships

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  • Positive behaviours: Validating and expressing appreciation
  • Negative behaviours: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling
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Attributions for partner’s behaviour

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  • Internal for positive and external for negative behaviours (in more satisfying relationships)
  • External for positive and internal for negative behaviours (in less satisfying relationships)