Social Approach Flashcards
Key assumptions
behaviour occurs in a social context (influenced by people around us)
wider culture and society influence people’s behaviour
Normative social influence
Where a person fits in groups to not be left out
Informative social influence
Where a person joins a group because they might have more information
Define internalisation with examples
A person’s private and public views change completely
Someone becoming vegan because of others then for themselves
Define compliance with examples
Change in public behaviour not private opinion
Pretending to like a song you really hard because of your friends
Define identification with examples
Public and private views change but not permanently
Change behaviour when putting on work uniform then change back when taking the uniform off
Describe in and out groups
In group is a social group where someone believes they are a member
Out group is a social group where someone for an not identify with that group
Define social categorisation
Putting people into social groups
Define intra groups
An in group within a group where they achieve common goals that characterize a particular social group
define Self Esteem
How much you value, respect and feel confident about yourself
Define social persuasion
Positive feedback increases a person’s self efficiency overcoming their self doubt
Define social modelling
When someone is doing well at a task your doing you feel more motivated to do it
Influence of others on Self Efficiency
Social modelling
Social persuasion
define self concept
Physical, psychological and social attributions
Personal identity
Social identity
Developed strength and weakness
Strength - applies to real work events and can be used to explain events like the holocaust
Weakness - social experiments can be hard to control as they need to do loads of tests with changes etc
