Social Psychology Flashcards
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What is social psychology?
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- The study of how people think feel and behave in social settings
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What is conformity?
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- Peer pressure - people around you can affect you
- Informative influence: when you look at a group for guidance because you assume that they are correct
- Normative influence: not to be an outsider
Two types of the way a person conform
- convinced privately
- convinced publicly
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what is group polarization? What is confirmation bias? and group think?
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Group polarization: A phenomenon in which the decisions of groups, enhance or amplify the original opinions of group members
- The views have to be shared by the majority in the group in order to influence their decision
- Confirmation bias: group member looking to seek out the information that supports the majority view
- Groupthink: when you want to maintain harmony in the group more than anything else. So people may suppress their opinions
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What are some factors that cause someone to conform?
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Things that affect conformity:
- Group size: 3-5 groups are more likely to conform
- Unanimous opinion: can lead to group-think
- group status: affect conformity
- group cohesion: if we agree with them the more likely we are to conform
- How we believe that public with the response: will affect conformity
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Internal
- prior commitments
- feelings insecure
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Obedience: follow structures and order without protesting
- How close we are to the personal connection and physical closeness
- Institutional authority
- Victim distance
- depersonalization : when person is seen as less
- role models of defiance
- Ash studies:
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What type of people is more likely to conform?
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- lower social or economic status
- People in the individualistic culture are less likely to conform than people that emphasize the family or the groups
- However everyone can conform, but having one person in the group that isn’t conforming can help the group not conform
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What are the two experiments: Conformity and obedience
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- Asch’s experiment of conformity: deals with the lines and recognizing them
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Milgram’s experiment: conducted a shocks study and people obey to shock others
- they were able to do that because they were able to de-personlize the person
- experiments helps disern the self-service bias: which states that people tend to believe that they would “never commit such things”
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What is the fundamental attribution error?
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Attribution: why are people acting that way, when we see someone do something we want to come up with the reason why they do what they do.
- Dispositional attribution: the behaviour came from the person’s character
- Situational attribution: something about the situation made them behave a certain way
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What is internalization?
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- Prison incorporated their roles into beliefs and let it influence their attitudes and behaviors.
9
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what is selection bias
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making sure that it is a representation of the population, selection
10
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Explain the bystander effect
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- When people are in a group they are less likely to help, in-group people feel less inclined to take action because of a concept that is called the diffusion of responsibility.
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Social facilitation vs social loafing
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- Social facilitation: what ever you practice you will perform more of in front of other people. If you practice well ( positive) you will perform more of that if you practice poorly you will perform more of that.
- Social loafing: doing less in group task, being in a group reduce the individual’s effort.
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what is socialization?
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- it’s a lifelong process that we learn how to interact with others. Things that contribute to socialization
- family
- school
- peers
- mass media