Social Psych Extra Flashcards
social norms
how you’re expected to act
rules that guide behavior in certain situations
different places/cultures have different norms
normative and informational conformity lead to
same outcome/bx
just different reasoning
two parts contributing to fundamental attribution error
saliency bias and self-serving bias
saliency bias
tendency to make assumptions based on the noticeable
insiders know more
self-serving bias
tendency (for sake of ego) to take credit for success/things you do well and tend to externalize things you don’t do well/failures
in-group favoritism
favor any group you’re part of/identify with
outgroup homogeneity
saying outgroups are worse than you and are all the same
us = better, diverse
them = worse, all same
other names for outgrip homogeneity
other-race effect, own-race bias
attitudes are
learned
cog disso truth
humans more often change attitude than behavior
sources of prejudice
mental short cuts/stereotyping, learned, displaced aggression/scapegoating, competition (realistic conflict theory), just world phenomenon, blame the victim
just world phenomenon
tendency to think that world is fair place
if it’s unfair to someone it’s that person’s fault
blame the victim
tendency to think good happens to good people and bad happens to bad people
if something bad happens to you you’re a bad person
males v females in attraction
males look for quantity, females look for quality
females want someone who will stick around and have stability
males want attractive, best way to further genes
matching hypothesis
people end up with people of similar attractiveness
money can change this
