Social Psychology Flashcards
________ ____________ is the study of how people influence others’ behaviour, beliefs, and attitudes.
Social psychology
__________ __________ ____________ is comparing ourselves with people who seem superior to us in some way.
Upward Social Comparison
_________ __________ ___________ is comparing ourselves with people who seem inferior to us in some way.
Downward Social Comparison
______ __________ is a contagious outbreak of irrational behaviour.
Mass Hysteria
___________ _____________ is when many people become simultaneously convinced of bizarre falsehoods.
Collective Delusions
_________ ___________ are false stories repeated so many times that people believe them to be true.
Urban Legends
_____ _____________ _____________ __________ is the tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences (e.g., a person’s character, personality and intelligence) on other people’s behaviour and under-estimate the impact of situational factors (e.g., financial factors, peer pressure, the other person having a bad day).
The Fundamental Attribution Error
____________ is the process of assigning causes to behaviours.
Attrubutions
_________ ________ __________ study examined participant conformity using the line comparison paradigm.
Solomon Asch’s Conformity
__________________ increases conformity.
Unanimity
______________________ is the tendency of people to engage in uncharacteristic behaviour, sometimes deviant, when they are stripped of their usual identities.
Deindividuation
____________________ and _______________________ tend to promote deindividuation.
Anonymity and lack of responsibility
Being in a ___________________ may reduce someone’s ability to be identified by others.
Large crowd
