Social Psych Final

Question 1

Social Facilitation

Answer 1

improvement on well learned easy tasks, and bad performance on poorly learned/ difficult tasks

Question 2

deliberate influence

Answer 2

people are influenced by a direct attempt to influence others
ex someone trying to change your mind purposely and it works

Question 3

social inhibition

Answer 3

in a social setting, trying to learn something that is perceived as a difficult task.

Question 4

evaluation apprehension

Answer 4

a learned response as a result of presence of others
ex. performance anxiety

Question 5

attention conflict

Answer 5

the presence of others in and of itself may become a distraction that takes away one’s ability to focus

Question 6

social comparison

Answer 6

comparing themselves to others in order to evaluate one’s ability on something

Question 7

communication persuasion padagrim

Answer 7

source-message-target-affect

Question 8

communication credibility

Answer 8

the extent at which people perceive the communicator as a believable source of information.

Question 9

message discrepancy

Answer 9

is a message that advocates a position that is different from what the target believes, discrepancy is a matter of degree some messages are different others are not

Question 10

persuasion

Answer 10

being convinced in one direction over another

Question 11

Authoritarian Personality

Answer 11

black and white thinkers gives people security, comfortable with simplistic thinking

Question 12

prejudice

Answer 12

a negative evaluation of a social group

Question 13

ethnocentric

Answer 13

the tendency to judge in-group attributes as superior to those of the out group

Question 14

Categorical Thinking

Answer 14

grouping individuals into categories in your brain, it’s a natural way our brain makes sense of the world.

Question 15

ingroup bias

Answer 15

a collection of people who have similar characteristics, and it’s the bias is related with ones outlook on the out group

Question 16

outgroup bias

Answer 16

tendency to dislike groups that we are not associated with

Question 17

outgroup homogeneity

Answer 17

the tendency to view the outgroup as more homogenous than the in group, homogenous means old fashioned or not like modern i guess

Question 18

implicit bias

Answer 18

unintended and automatic process of making judgements decisions and behaviors.

Question 19

contact hypothesis, it’s requirements

Answer 19

equal status
common goals
intergroup cooperation
support of authorities laws or customs

all of contact hypothesis works better when there is structure involved
supposed to be something the repeats overtime and eventually it could be reinforced

Question 20

stigma

Answer 20

ask

Question 21

prosocial behavior

Answer 21

behavior defined by society as beneficial to other people
excludes if a behavior has to be done for a job like teaching.

Question 22

Altruism

Answer 22

behavior carried out to benefit others without the anticipation of an external reward

Question 23

Egoism

Answer 23

helping behavior is often motivated by self gratification the rewards and cost influences decisions to give

Question 24

empathy altruism model

Answer 24

not all behavior is motivated hey something in return, there is often emotions that drive us to sway in one direction over another

Question 25

distress, EA model

Answer 25

being the bystander, and wanting to help someone reduce their stress

Question 26

empathy EA model

Answer 26

pleasant emotions such as passion concern warmth and tenderness

Question 27

aquantainship and liking

Answer 27

helping someone who is closer to you first vs someone who is not,
helping family vs friends vs others
helping people you like versus you don’t like

Question 28

Similarity

Answer 28

more likely to help people who were similar to us
even if you don’t know the person we may more more inclined to help them just because we see them as similar in some way

Question 29

deservingness

Answer 29

people are more willing to help if they believe the person deserves the help

Question 30

fundamental attribution error

Answer 30

the tendency to overestimate the importance of personal factors and underestimate situational influences

Question 31

The social responsibility norm

Answer 31

people feel they have a stronger responsibility to helping those whom they know versus people they don’t.

Question 32

the norm or reciprocity

Answer 32

people should help those who have helped them
more likely to reciprocate the feeling if we believe the original help was voluntary

Question 33

personal norms

Answer 33

people’s norms influence their likelihood to help or not
helping someone because of your moral values or because it stems from you internally

Question 34

Bystander effect and decision making model

Answer 34

people are les likely to help someone if there are other people around.

interpreting the situation- ambiguous situations delay responses and stall decisions
evaluation apprehension- a concern about how others will view their behavior
diffusion of responsibility- when multiple people are around the responsibility becomes shared

Question 35

Communication Persuasion Paradigm Model
be able to describe the basic model and

Answer 35

source, message, target, effect
the the communication model the source is described as the person or structure creating a form is persuasion via there trustworthiness, expertise, or even attractiveness. The message is the overall theme the the persuaders are trying to communicate. it can be done through a one sided message a two sided message or through fear arousal. fear arousal is the most effective in making the the target audience feel like they almost need to do something unless they went a negative outcome, and message discrepancy is when the message is taken a different way then intended by the target.
target- the intended audience the persuasion is meant for,