SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards
Social Psychology
-study of how social context influences people’s thoughts. feelings, and actions
-enviroment changes behaviour
E.g how temp effects ones’s level of aggresion
Transference
-assuming a new person and someone we know has the same traits bcz of resemble
impression management
-put their best face forward
Fundamental Attribution Error
-tendency to overemphasize personal characteristics and situational factors
-internal cause
E.g my bf didn’t text me; he must hate me
Self-serving attributions
-tendency to attribute success to own efforts
E.g. I did well on the test since I am so smart
Attitude
-3 components
an affective feeling, a cognitive belief, a behavioural motivation
E.g. everyday behaviour and decision making
Implicit vs Explicit Attitudes
Implicit:
-automatic association
-learned through person, place, thing
-harder to change
-unconscious belief
Explicit:
what we feel/believe about one, thing, place
-shaped by values or norms
-conscious belief
*both predict behaviour
The elaboration likelihood model
-a central route (relies on thought, reflective process)
-a peripheral route (surface-level features -judging by looks)
Impressions/forming them
-stories we tell about other people
- Understand who we interacting with
- Know what people will be like in the future
Internal vs External
Internal:
-dispostional
External:
-situational
cognitive dissonance
-sense of conflict between actions and attitudes can reduce dissonance and improve behaviour
E.g I am healthy, but I smoke , therefore, person stops smoking
Cope with Dissonance
- Change Behaviour
- Change attitude
- Reframe Behaviour
- Add consonant cognitions
– “Multitasking is the sign of an efficient person” - Reduce perceived control
– “I have to reply quickly or friends will reject me” 34
Self-Justification
-results from the desire to
perceive self as rational and predictable
conformity (reasons,examples)
-people implicity adapt behaviour, b
beliefs, and preferences based of group norms
-the desire for social approval
Reasons we Conform:
- Informational Social influence
-we believe others know better - Normative Social Influence
-wanting to get along with others
-social impact theory (strength, immediacy, number)
E.g A lady standing up with the group in the clinic
Social Facilitation
People perform better watched by multiple parties
E.g. Hotdog eating competition
