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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  1. Peer pressure - people around you can affect you
  2. Informative influence: when you look at a group for guidance because you assume that they are correct
  3. Normative influence: not to be an outsider

Two types of the way a person conform

  1. convinced privately
  2. 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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  1. Things that affect conformity:
    1. Group size: 3-5 groups are more likely to conform
    2. Unanimous opinion: can lead to group-think
    3. group status: affect conformity
    4. group cohesion: if we agree with them the more likely we are to conform
    5. How we believe that public with the response: will affect conformity
    6. Internal
      1. prior commitments
      2. feelings insecure
  2. Obedience: follow structures and order without protesting
    1. How close we are to the personal connection and physical closeness
    2. Institutional authority
    3. Victim distance
    4. depersonalization : when person is seen as less
    5. role models of defiance
  3. 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
  • 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.
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what is selection bias

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making sure that it is a representation of the population, selection

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Explain the bystander effect

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  1. 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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  1. 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.
  2. 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
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