Social Psychology

Question 1

What do social psychologist study?

Answer 1

Social psychologist study how thoughts feelings and behaviour of others influenced by actual, imagined or implied presence of others

Question 2

What did Harvard and Glueck study?

Answer 2

Conducted longest study on health and happiness

Question 3

What was Robert Waldinger view of social psychology?

Answer 3

the only thing that really matters in life is your relationship to others

Question 4

What is affiliated motivation?

Answer 4

Motivation to be affiliated or be accepted by others’ relationships and groups

Question 5

What is the impact of chronic loneliness equivalent to?

Answer 5

smoking 50 cigarettes a day

Question 6

Which group of people suffer from chronic loneliness the most?

Answer 6

Young aldults

Question 7

Describe the bystander effect experiment done by Latane and Darley?

Answer 7

Participants see smoke, only 40% reported it

Question 8

Why did people not report smoke in the by stander effect experiment?

Answer 8

People are less likely to receive help when there are a lot of people around rather than less people around

Question 9

What is Diffusion of responsibility?

Answer 9

when people who need to make a decision wait for someone else to act instead

Question 10

What is Evaluation apprehension?

Answer 10

a human tendency to try to look better or fear of being evaluated

Question 11

What is Pluralistic ignorance?

Answer 11

when people mistakenly believe that everyone else holds a different opinion from their own

Question 12

What is Conformity?

Answer 12

Altering your behaviour to fit others or broader social norms

Question 13

What is are Social norms?

Answer 13

General ways of thinking, feeling and behaving (what is considered the norm, highly recommended)

Question 14

What are Descriptive social norms?

Answer 14

refers to belief about what others do

Question 15

What are Injunctive or prescriptive social norms?

Answer 15

describe what others think we should do

Question 16

What are the two reasons people conform to norms?

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Informative and normative influence

Question 17

What is informative influence?

Answer 17

a group provides the source of guidance and information on how to act

Question 18

What is normative influence?

Answer 18

when someone joins a group of people despite not agreeing with what they believe in

Question 19

What did Asch’s Conformity Experiments test?

Answer 19

How often do people conform to the group consensus instead of trusting themselves? (social pressure, avoiding discomfort)

Question 20

Why do people conform?

Answer 20

Normative and informative influence

Question 21

What is Unanimity?

Answer 21

agreement with all people involved

Question 22

What is the notion of groupthink?

Answer 22

When a group of individuals need to make a decisions have to come to a consensus

Question 23

What are compliance techniques?

Answer 23

methods that attempt to persuade people to comply with their requests

Question 24

What is door in the face compliance technique?

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making a large, unreasonable request first, followed by a smaller, more acceptable one so that the smaller option seems more reasonable

Question 25

What is the foot in the door compliance technique?

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a persuasion tactic that starts with a modest request, then follows up later with a larger request, in order to increase the chances of succeeding with the larger request.

Question 26

What is the difference between compliance and obedience?

Answer 26

Compliance: comply to others

Obedience: person making request is in a position of authority

Question 27

What was done in Milgram studies of obedience?

Answer 27

How punishment affects the way people learn
obedience was measured by the level of shock that the participant was willing to deliver

Question 28

What were factors that lower level of obedience in the Milgram experiment?

Answer 28

how close the teacher is to the learner, teacher and learner in the same room

Question 29

What was a factor factors that increased level of obedience?

Answer 29

Teacher is not in the same room as participant

Question 30

What Dropped obedience the most in the milgram experiment?

Answer 30

non-obedient confederates

Question 31

What do we form first impressions on?

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incredibly limited amounts of information like appearance

Question 32

Why do we form first impressions?

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expectation play a role on how we interpret things around us

Question 33

What is the concept of negative information?

Answer 33

Uncommon behaviours weigh very heavily in impression

Question 34

What are the two main attributes that influence why a person behaves the way they do?

Answer 34

Situation or disposition attributes

Question 35

What is a situational attribute?

Answer 35

The cause to that person behaviour is external

Question 36

What is dispositional attribute?

Answer 36

The reasons for their behaviour has to do with who they are

Question 37

When a person interpreted another persons behaviour, do they rely on disposition or situational attributes more?

Answer 37

Rely on disposition rather than situational

Question 38

What is the Fundamentals attribution error?

Answer 38

We completely ignore situational attributes

Question 39

What is Correspondence bias?

Answer 39

we assume that a person’s internal characteristics corresponding strongly with what they engage in

Question 40

Do eastern cultures looks more at situation and disposition attributes?

Answer 40

Eastern cultures look at aspect of situation rather than merely the actor of situation (holistic approach)

Question 41

What is Actor observer bias?

Answer 41

tend over emphasize dispositional characteristics but when it comes to ourselves we tend to take in more situational attributes