Social Psych Final Flashcards
Social Facilitation
improvement on well learned easy tasks, and bad performance on poorly learned/ difficult tasks
deliberate influence
people are influenced by a direct attempt to influence others
ex someone trying to change your mind purposely and it works
social inhibition
in a social setting, trying to learn something that is perceived as a difficult task.
evaluation apprehension
a learned response as a result of presence of others
ex. performance anxiety
attention conflict
the presence of others in and of itself may become a distraction that takes away one’s ability to focus
social comparison
comparing themselves to others in order to evaluate one’s ability on something
communication persuasion padagrim
source-message-target-affect
communication credibility
the extent at which people perceive the communicator as a believable source of information.
message discrepancy
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
persuasion
being convinced in one direction over another
Authoritarian Personality
black and white thinkers gives people security, comfortable with simplistic thinking
prejudice
a negative evaluation of a social group
ethnocentric
the tendency to judge in-group attributes as superior to those of the out group
Categorical Thinking
grouping individuals into categories in your brain, it’s a natural way our brain makes sense of the world.
ingroup bias
a collection of people who have similar characteristics, and it’s the bias is related with ones outlook on the out group
outgroup bias
tendency to dislike groups that we are not associated with
outgroup homogeneity
the tendency to view the outgroup as more homogenous than the in group, homogenous means old fashioned or not like modern i guess
implicit bias
unintended and automatic process of making judgements decisions and behaviors.
contact hypothesis, it’s requirements
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
stigma
ask
prosocial behavior
behavior defined by society as beneficial to other people
excludes if a behavior has to be done for a job like teaching.
Altruism
behavior carried out to benefit others without the anticipation of an external reward
Egoism
helping behavior is often motivated by self gratification the rewards and cost influences decisions to give
empathy altruism model
not all behavior is motivated hey something in return, there is often emotions that drive us to sway in one direction over another
distress, EA model
being the bystander, and wanting to help someone reduce their stress
empathy EA model
pleasant emotions such as passion concern warmth and tenderness
aquantainship and liking
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
Similarity
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
deservingness
people are more willing to help if they believe the person deserves the help
fundamental attribution error
the tendency to overestimate the importance of personal factors and underestimate situational influences
The social responsibility norm
people feel they have a stronger responsibility to helping those whom they know versus people they don’t.
the norm or reciprocity
people should help those who have helped them
more likely to reciprocate the feeling if we believe the original help was voluntary
personal norms
people’s norms influence their likelihood to help or not
helping someone because of your moral values or because it stems from you internally
Bystander effect and decision making model
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
Communication Persuasion Paradigm Model
be able to describe the basic model and
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,
