Social Flashcards
What were the Manchester riots an example of?
A class riot, not race.
Give an example of group think, what is it?
Tony Blair and iraq. Nobody questioning each other or intelligence, trusting others too much. Reinforcing your hypothesis as you distort evidence, minimise conflict in discussion.
How did Williams and sommer measure social exclusion?
How would it affect behaviour? Ball bouncing, measured cooperation in taste, putting words in a bucket
Why is social exclusion bad?
No sense of belonging.
Decreased self esteem.
Lack of control in a situation.
A meaningless existence if nobody cares.
What did Williams, cheung and choi discover about social exclusion?
Cyberostracism, investigated link between belonging to a group and conformity. Pc vs mac, conformity increased when ostracised. If surrounded by in group people, there was little difference if excluded or not. In the outgroup, or mixed group, there was a big difference between sense of belonging between excluded or not.
What did eisenberger, lieberman and Williams find out about social exclusion?
Did a task in an fMRI scanner, the anterior cingulate cortex was active during exclusion. analogous go physical pain.
What is operationalization?
How to measure a concept. Ie are children happy at school? We must operationalization happiness
Are categories objective or subjective?
Subjective, no defined rules for British.
What is a prototype?
An abstract concept, perfect being.
What is an exemplar?
A real life example of a prototype.
What is social cognition?
Cognitive processes and structure influenced by social behaviour.
What is discourse analysis?
Non Quantatively analysis of events. We can only interpret things within their wider social context. For example they reject a questionnaire and it’s statistics, we should interpret what was being communicated in context.
A critique of conventional social psychological methods and theories.
What is functionalism?
Interpret events in terms of input to output, Alan Turing, Turing test.
What is a concept?
The building block of cognition?
Why is belonging to a social category important?
It influences your perception of other categories.
What is Gestalt psychology?
Not enough to look at the stimuli in isolation, need to look at the overall configuration in order to make sense of things.
ie. think about individual notes, or as all the notes as a whole and their melody.
whole influences constituent parts, not vice versa.
What is Tajfels accentuation principle?
Categorisation accentuates perceived similarities within and differences between groups on dimensions that people believe are correlated with the categorisation. The effect is amplified where the categorisation and/or dimension has subjective importance, relevance or value.
Shorter A lines than B. The Longest A and shortest B were accentuated by belonging to a category.
What is the minimal group paradigm?
Tajfel et al.
Does belonging to a meaningless group lead to prejudice? Art score, gave their group a lower score to be better than outgroup at their own cost.
Want to maintain a high self esteem by your group being better.
What is Roschs hierarchical approach to categories?
Super ordinate, basic level, sub ordinate.
Furniture, chair, kitchen chair.
What did Wittgenstein say in relation to categories?
Critising the defined features account of categorisation. Compared it to a game, there are no distinct rules of what makes a game.
A fuzzy probabilistic model of categorization is better, based on similarity to the prototype.
What is entitativity?
What can affect it?
Campbell. When you see a set of units as an entity, social system or group.
Size, cohesiveness.
What is the criticism from reductionism?
Why does it apply?
Being ablest reduce doesn’t allow the ability to start from the basics and reconstruct. Don’t answer the initial question.
Loss of explanatory power, the level of explanation doesnt not match so the orignal question is unanswered.
Applies particularly to neuroscience and evolutionary social psychology.
What is positivism?
Why is it a criticism of social psychology?
Non-critical acceptance of science as the only way to arrive at true knowledge.
Since we are studying ourselves cannot be completely objective.
What are the levels of explanation in social psychology?
Intrapersonal, interpersonal and situational, positional, ideological.