Social Paychology

Question 1

Conformity

Answer 1

Peer pressure

Normative influence: fear rejection of going against something you know

Informative influence: you don’t know any better so you go along with group

Convinced public: only confirm public ally

Convinced private: you are convinced the group is right, do it privately

Question 2

Group polarization

Answer 2

Group thinking AMPLIFIES original views of individuals

Uses Confirmation bias by focusing on majority view and criticizing minority’s view

Question 3

Group think

Answer 3

Group harmony

Unity. Maintaining harmony among group is more important than the problem at hand.

Question 4

Conformity vs obedience

Answer 4

Conformity:
Go along with a group

Compliance, identification-i want to be like a person, internalization

Obedience:
Follow orders and obey authorities

Question 5

Compliance

Answer 5

Going along with something to get a reward/ avoid punishment

Something I gotta do

Question 6

Internalization

Answer 6

You actually believe something

Question 7

Asch line experiments (conformity)

Answer 7

Line of people answering question. Everyone answers wrong so you answer wrong too just to be with group 75% of the time

No reward or punishment involved 🤔

Why?

1. Normative social influence
2. Informational social influence

Question 8

Milgram experiments on obedience

Answer 8

Obedience. Nazis killing millions just by following orders

Being instructed to Inflict pain on someone behind wall. Even with screams, people still administered shocks (65%)

Regular people will go with authority over morals

1. Just world phenomenon
2. Responsibility wasn’t theirs
3. Fundamental attribution error

Question 9

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 9

Basically being judgmental

Assuming others act because of their flawed behaviors while we only do bad things because of our circumstances

Question 10

Zimbardo prison expt

Stanford prison expt

Answer 10

Prisoners and guards. Pretty messed up.

Question 11

Situational attribution

Answer 11

Attributing behavior to the situation not the person

Question 12

Dispositional attribution

Answer 12

Attributing the behavior to the person, not the situation

Question 13

Factors that influence Conformity and obedience

Answer 13

Unanimity

Group size

Group status

Group cohesion

Observed behavior

Legitimacy

Question 14

Bystander effect

Answer 14

When you’re less inclined to take action due to being in a group

Diffusion of responsibility theory: “Someone else can probably help”

Question 15

Deindividuatuon

Answer 15

Individuals in a group act impulsively and heinously because group conceals identity

Black Friday lol

Question 16

Group setting and arousal

Answer 16

Group–>nervous energy–>

—>do better in simple tasks due to arousal

—> do worse in difficult tasks due to nervousness

Question 17

Social loafing

Answer 17

Group produced reduction of individual effort

Putting less effort into a group project because other people will carry

Question 18

Agents of Socialization

Answer 18

Family

Schools

Peers

Mass media

Question 19

Normative influence

Answer 19

Conforming even though you think otherwise. Afraid of rejection

Question 20

Informative influence

Answer 20

I don’t know the answer so I’ll just go with the group