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Social Psychology Flashcards

1
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What was Roussaeu’s perspective on the nature of mankind?

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People are born decent but it is society which screws them up

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What was Hobbe’s perspective on the nature of humankind?

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People start out nasty - if laws etc weren’t round we would all do bad things

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3
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Intra-personal level

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Inside the person

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Interpersonal level

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2 people

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Inter-group level

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Group level behaviour

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Societal level

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Nature of society

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Freud’s perspective on human nature was…

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Like a modern Hobbs
Said that basic human condition is a cauldron of pleasure seeking instincts.
We are all bad in our core

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Freud said the post primitive part of the psyche is the…

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ID

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ID subsystem conflict =

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The basic urges
Driven by the pleasure principle and the need for sexual pleasure.

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EGO subsystem conflict =

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Reality principle
What is socially acceptable and what it not

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SUPEREGO subsystem conflict =

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Moral policeman
Rules of society
If rules are broken it leads to anxiety etc

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Displacement defence mechanisim

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Redirecting impulses to a more socially acceptable channel

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Reaction formation defence mechanisim

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Original wish is supplanted with a wish of the opposite nature

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Projection defence mechanisim

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Projecting urges onto others

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Isolation defence mechanisim

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Awareness of memories but not emotions
Dissociating from emotions

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16
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Freuds oral stage

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0-2
Thumb sucking, smoking etc

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Freud said that unconcious conflicts are a result of…

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Childhood experiences

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Freud’s anal stage

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2-4
Won’t spend money, anal retentiveness, likes painting

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Freud’s Phallic stage

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4-6
Castration anxeity following a son wanting to sexually possess mother.

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Freuds Latency Stage

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6-12

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21
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Freud’s genital stage

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12+

22
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How do Phallic stage and Electra complex relate

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Phallic stage = boys identifying with mothers
Electra complex = girls identifying with mothers

23
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Problems with Freud’s theories are:

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Never studied children
Ideas not falsifiable
Little experimental evidence to support

24
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Likert Scales

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Rating sentences on agreement
Depend on honesty

25
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What measurement of attitude is unobtrusive

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Likert scales

26
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The Bogus Pipeline

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Fake measuring machine

27
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Electromyography (EMG)

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Measures activity of facial muscles

28
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LaPire found

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A racist attitude doesn’t always lead people to show racist behaviour

29
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What are the reasons for attitudes to change?

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Cognitive Dissonance = changing behaviour which changes attitude
Credible, trustworthy, attractive or likable source
Emotional appeals = using emotions

30
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What emotion can work with emotional appeal and only if what…

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Fear
ONLY IF;
Moderate to strong fear
A feasable, low cost way to reduce threat - doable

31
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Optimistic style

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Not blaming self

32
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Pessimistic style

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Blaming self

33
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People with Pessimist styles…
Whereas people with optimistic styles…

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Live shorter
Live longer

34
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Actor-observer effect =

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Making internal attributions for others failures
But external attributions for our failures
ETC

35
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Self serving bias =

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People taking credit for their success but not failures

36
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The more people are exposed to faces, photos, languages and tunes….

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The more they like them
Increased exposure = increase liking

37
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In terms of repeated exposure…Reis found

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Proximity doesn’t always work if there are personality differences etc

38
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People who are emotional aroused…

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Find others more attractive

39
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Walsters blind date study found;

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People rated highly for attractiveness by independant observers were more liked by date

40
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People can often be more attracted to someone if they are…

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Similar to them.

41
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Social Facilisation

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How the physical presence of others influences our behaviour

42
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Zajonc found…

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The presence of others leads to increased arousal which strengthens the display of our dominant response/ the things we are good at.

43
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Diffusion of responsiibility

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As group size increases, individual responsibility decreases

44
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Deindividuation

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Presence of others leads to people loosing self awareness and feeling anonymous

45
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Stanford prison experiment overall found…

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People don’t automatically take on roles, they need to identify with them.

46
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Obedience is greater when…

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The learner is out of sight
Authority figure was close by and legit

47
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Authoritarian personality =

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Hostile to people who are perceived as inferior but fond of those who have power/authority

48
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Realistic conflict theory

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If there is a conflict of interests between 2 groups the relations will be hostile
But if there is no conflict they will be harmonnious

49
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What brings out the worst in people?

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Competition

50
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Minimal Group Paradigm

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Attempt to make the envrionment ‘empty’ with no competition of resources

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