Social Psychology Flashcards
What is Trait view?
We behave and think consistently across situation
What is Situationist view?
Our thoughts and behaviors change with the situation
What is Interactionist view?
Both traits and situations affect thoughts and behavior
How is Social Psychology defined?
Study of how an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by other people, whether actual or imagined
How is Social Psychology different from Sociology?
It differs at the level of the individual:
sociology studies how culture and society affect behavior or others
Social psychology studies how other individuals affect our behavior
What was Asch’s conformity study?
Participants told they were in a visual perception test
Shown 3 lines and asked which one matched the reference line
Confederates said incorrect answer
Goal was to study how participants would respond to group’s incorrect judgement: conformity to peer pressure
What is Bystander Apathy?
The tendency of people to be less likely to help someone in need when others are present
What was the Zimbardo Prison study?
Stanford undergraduates assigned to prisoner/guard positions
Behavior was greatly influenced by the context they were placed in
What was Milgrams Obedience study
Milgrams shock box
Student + teacher
Studied how far someone was willing to go under order to commit actions they did not agree with
What is the Correspondent Inference theory?
How people make judgments about others’ intentions and traits based on their actions
Choice
Non-common effects(low frequency events that stand out)
Undesirablity
What is, and what are Dispositional attributions made of?
Attribute events or behavior to internal factors rather than external factors
-It is perceived the person had a choice
-Low frequency event
-Action was undesirable
What is the Causal Attribution theory? Three key parts?
Process by which people interpret and explain the causes behind events or behaviors
Consensus, Consistency, Distinctiveness
What factors of the Causal Attribution theory led to Attribution to Internal Causes
-Low consensus (people do not react in same manner to stimuli)
-High consistency (Person reacts to this stimulus in a similar manner on other occasions)
-Low distinctiveness(This person reacts in the same manner to other, different stimuli)
What factors of the Causal Attribution theory led to Attribution to External Causes
-High consensus (other people react to this stimulus in same manner)
-Low consistency (This person does not react to this stimulus similarly on other occasions)
-High distinctiveness (reacts in the same manner to other, different stimuli)
What happened to Michael Brown Jr. ?
18 year old African American fatally shot by 28 year old white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, MI
Darren Wilson was found not guilty by a grand jury
What is the Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Theory?
Explains how people experience discomfort when their actions are inconsistent with their beliefs or values: results in anxiety and aversive feelings
Difference between our behavior and our attitudes, attitudes and self-image, or two attitudes that we hold
What are the two types of Attributions and how are they defined?
Dispositional: behavior attributed to an internal disposition or inclination
Situational: behavior attributed to the circumstances or situation
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
Overestimate significance of dispositional factors underestimate the significance of situational
applicable when: explaining behavior of others
What is the Actor-observer bias?
Other’s behavior attributed to dispositional factors, our own behavior attributed to external factors
What are the two components of Self-serving bias?
Successful outcomes of personal behavior attributed to internal causes
Unsuccessful outcomes of personal behavior attributed to external causes
How are stereotypes defined?
Generalized beliefs about the characteristics of a group, whether good or bad
How is prejudice defined?
Dislike based on faulty and inflexible generalizations; felt or expressed. May be directed toward a whole group or an individual due to group membership
How is discrimination defined?
Different treatment of people based on their membership of a group
What was the Implicit Association Test?
A task based on automatic associations
Categorize faces and words into appropriate groups using a keyboard
Cards used, then words with black or white faces
