Social Psychology

Question 1

Social Cognition

Answer 1

Process of analyzing and interpreting events, other people, oneself, and the world in general

Question 2

Attributions

Answer 2

The process a person goes through to infer other’s motives or attentions

Question 3

What do attributions do?

Answer 3

• help predict and control environment
• help determine thoughts, feelings, desires
• influence expectations for the future
• Impact on own performance

Question 4

Friz Heider proposed…

Answer 4

Dispositional attributions, situational attributions

Question 5

Dispositional attributions

Answer 5

Causes for behavior that originate within the person

Question 6

Situational attributions

Answer 6

Causes of behavior that originate in events, or situations outside of the person

Question 7

Harold Kelley proposed that 3 facts be taken into account when making attributions

Answer 7

Consnsus, Consistency, and Distinctiveness

Question 8

Who proposed 3 factors when making attributions?

Answer 8

Harold Kelley

Question 9

Consensus

Answer 9

The degree to which other people, if in the same situation, would behave similarly to the observed person

Question 10

Consistency

Answer 10

Whether the observed person behaves the same way when faced with the same set of circumstances

Question 11

Distinctiveness

Answer 11

Observed person acts differently in different types of situations

Question 12

Internal attribution

Answer 12

Behaviour is due to a person’s only personality

Question 13

External attribution

Answer 13

Behaviour is due to factors of the environment

Question 14

Self-serving bias

Answer 14

When one feels their positive behaviours are dispositional and their shortcomings are situational

Question 15

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 15

The tendency for people to overestimate dispositional factors and underestimate situational one when examining someone else’s behaviour

Question 16

Actor-observer bias

Answer 16

Tendency to attribute our own behaviour to situational causes

Question 17

Attitude

Answer 17

The pos or neg evaluation of people, objects, and ideas

Question 18

What are the 3 dimensions of attitude?

Answer 18

Cognitive, emotional, behavioural

Question 19

Cognitive dimension

Answer 19

thoughts and beliefs

Question 20

Emotional dimension

Answer 20

feelings, like and dislike

Question 21

Behavioural dimension

Answer 21

How beliefs and evaluations are demonstrated

Question 22

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 22

A state of mental discomfort that comes from two person’s beliefs or between beliefs and behaviour

Question 23

Who proposed cognitive dissonance?

Answer 23

Leon Festinger

Question 24

The elaboration likelihood model is a theory of…

Answer 24

persuasion

Question 25

What are the two vital routes in attitude change?

Answer 25

Central, peripheral

Question 26

Central route (attitude change)

Answer 26

Depends on effective, informed communication

Question 27

Peripheral route (attitude change)

Answer 27

Emotional, superficial evaluations of a message

Question 28

Prosocial behaviour

Answer 28

behaviour that benefits someone else but offers no obvious benefit to the person performing

Question 29

Altruism

Answer 29

Helping hen there is no discernable reward

Question 30

Egoism

Answer 30

Acting when it will benefit the self

Question 31

Collectivism

Answer 31

Acting when it will benefit the group

Question 32

Principlism

Answer 32

Acting to uphold moral principles

Question 33

Bystander effect

Answer 33

As the number of people present increases, the less likely a person is to help

Question 34

Social Facilitation

Answer 34

A change in behaviour when people are in the presence of others

Question 35

Social loafing

Answer 35

a decrease in individual effort when working with a group

Question 36

Groupthink

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Mob mentality type shit

Question 37

Group polarization

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Tendency to make more extreme decisions as a group than one would individually

Question 38

Deindividuation

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The loss of distinctive personality in a group

Question 39

foot in the door

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Asking a small favor then increasingly larger favors

Question 40

Door in the face

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Asking for something outrageous and then something smaller

Question 41

Low ball technique

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Obtaining a commitment and then raising the cost of the commitment

Question 42

The basis for social influence lies in...

Answer 42

reciprocation, liking, scarcity, and authority

Question 43

Obedience

Answer 43

Compliance with orders of another person or group