Social Psych Flashcards
Attribution Theory
Trying to understand someone behavior by attributing beliefs and intentions to them
Fundamental Attribution error
Other behavior is internal characteristics while our actions are because of the situation.
Self-serving bias
Taking credit for success while failures are because of situations.
Foot- in- the - door
Start with a small request and work toward a big one.
Door- in-the-face
Start with a big request and then ask one for a smaller.
Cognitive Dissonance
Gap between action and attitude usually ends with a change in beliefs/attitutde.
Central route to persuasion
Focus on the actual argument and content
Peripheral route to persuasion
Focuses on something other than the content, looks of the person.
Social Norms
The normal way to act
Role- playing
Start playing a role and then you start actually acting like the role.
Stanford Prison Experiment
Role playing.
- Guards and prisioners
only lasted for a few days
Conformity
Going allow with the crowed even if they are wrong
Solomon Asch’s line test
Conformity.
- 2 posers (Say wrong answer when instructed)
- 1 person trying to find the longest line.
Normative social influance
Behavior that gains social acceptance
Informative social influence
Behavior that is correct.
Obedience
Following orders
Stanley Milgram’s’ study of obedience
Obedience
Shock experiment
How far would you go?
Passionate love
Sexual attraction is most important
Companionate love
Affection and intimacy is more important
Sterotype
Over generalized statements
Thoughts
Prejudice
Negative attitude towards a group.
Emotions
Discrimination
Acting on prejudice.
Actions
Scapegoat theory
Always looking for the other group to take the blame.
Just-world phenomenon
Because the world is just when bad things happen those people did something to deserve it.
Frustration Aggression hypothesis
Frustration leads to aggression.
Altruism
Unselfish concern for others.
reciprocity norm
Social norm where people give bake what they get.
Bystander effect
When there is more people in a crowd and an event happens where you don’t understand what is happening you are less likely to help.
Diffusion of responsibility
In a large group if something happens it is not just on you to do something.
Attraction
Action of evoking pleasure.
Mere exposure effect
The more you are around a person the more you will like them
Social facilitation
Positive friendly audience = positive influence
Social loafing
In a group 1 person does less work leaving the others to do more.
Groupthink
Try to reach a harmony instead of being realistic
Deindividuation
In a group you become lost.
Group polarization
When people with similar ideas get togther and come out with their ideas confirmed.
In group bias
More likely to include and like people in your group.
Out group homogeneity effect
Everyone in the out group is the same. Not individual people.
Muzafer sheriff Robbers cave experiment
2 groups of boys
- putted against each other in competative tasks
- lead to pranks getting out of hand
- forced to work together
- Competitiveness ended.
