Social Psychology Flashcards

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Philip Zimbardo

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Prison experiment (6 days - the guards became evil and by the end everyone thought it was a real prison), fried grasshopper experiment

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Solomon Asch

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Developed the line test to test for conformity- people conformed 33% of the time

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Robert Cialdini

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Developed the foot-in-the-door phenomenon, “start small and build”

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John Darley

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Worked with Bibb Latane to decipher why people performed better when being watched by others (ex: emergencies)

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Leon Festinger

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Proposed the cognitive dissonance theory

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Irving Janis

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Coined the term “groupthink”, studied how it affected politics

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Bibb Latane

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Worked with Darley about people’s behavior when watched by others, was French. WEIRD name.

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Stanley Milgram

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Student of Asch, shock experiments with the “teacher” and “learner”, tested obedience (which varied based on circumstances in each experiment)

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Muzafer Sherif

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Boy scout experiment- created conflict and then used superordinate goals to override it

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Social psychology

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explore how we think about, influence, and relate to each other

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attribution theory

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internal disposition or external situations, proposed by Fritz Heider

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situational attribution

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we attribute something to the situation

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dispositional attribution

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we attribute something to our personality

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fundamental attribution error

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we overestimate the influence of personality

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actor-observer effect

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seeing the world from the actor’s perception we better appreciate the situation, how we view thing from the outside or n the actor’s view

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self-serving bias

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we like to skew our perceptions to make ourselves seem better, like attributing good things to ourselves and bad to the situation

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central route persuasion

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people are analytical and involved with the problem, giving facts, demonstrating, etc. (focus on arguments and respond with favorable thoughts), less superficial

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peripheral route persuasion

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people respond to incidental cues, attractiveness, celebrity endorsement, etc. (faster judgements)

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foot-in-the-door phenomenon

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people agree to a small action and then are more likely to agree to a larger one -Cialdini

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familiarity effect

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being familiar/ recognizing with something and thus being affected by it (ex: oreo)

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validity effect

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you hear about something often and thus believe it more (ex: I’ve heard it a lot, so it’s probably true)

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role

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the set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave

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cognitive dissonance theory

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when we know our attitudes and actions don’t match -Festinger

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conformity

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adjusting behavior and thinking toward a group standard, Chartrand studied the chameleon effect where humans copycat and Asch developed the line test

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normative social influence

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we understand social norms because the price for being different is severe, influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

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informational social influence

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influence resulting from willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality

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social facilitation

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people perform better when competing against others- only in simple tasks. For harder ones, people performed worse when being watched.

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social loafing

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tendency for people to work less in a group

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deindividuation

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abandoning normal restraints to power of group, loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity (ex: KKK, riots, food fights, tribal masks, etc.)

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group polarization

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amplification of group’s prevailing tendencies- terrorism!

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Groupthink

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to preserve good feelings dissents are self-censored, desire for harmony in a group- Janis came up with this

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culture norm

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rules for accepted and expected behavior

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personal space

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body buffer zone! (personal bubble please)

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Prejudice

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prejudgement (the attitude, not the action)

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Stereotype

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a trait commonly associated with a type of person (ex: dumb blondes), rationalize inequalities

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ethnocentrism

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people believe their own race is best

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contact hypothesis

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interaction/ contact can help people accept each other

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discrimination

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predisposition to action (the prejudiced beliefs may influence such acts)

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implicit and explicit attitudes

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internal and external attitudes (what we really feel vs. what we show or say on the outside)

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Implicit Association Test

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test what people associate other people with (ex: black names = violence)

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Ingroup

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“us”-a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity

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Outgroup

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“them”-a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup.

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ingroup bias

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people like their own group best

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scapegoat theory

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finding someone to blame releases tension

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other-race effect

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tendency to recognize your own race more accurately

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social identity

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we associate ourselves with certain groups and contrast ourselves with others

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ethnic identity

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we associate ourselves with a certain ethnicity and contrast ourselves with others

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just-world phenomenon

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Good behavior is rewarded and bad behavior is punished, believe that other people get what they des

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blaming the victim

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people think that the victim is partly to blame for their situation

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aggression

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any physical/verbal behavior intended to destroy

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frustration-aggression principle

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frustration creates anger which may create aggression

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mere-exposure effect

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familiarity breeds fondness

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passionate love

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physical arousal and cognitive appraisal, temporary, beginning of a love relationship

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companionate love

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deep affectionate attachment, comes after passionate stage

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equity

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both partners receive in proportion to what they give

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self-disclosure

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revealing intimate details about ourselves

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altruism

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unselfish regard for welfare of others

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bystander effect

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when more people share the responsibility to help, any single observer is less likely to help

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diffusion of responsibility

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bystander effect, people feel less responsible when in the presence of others

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social exchange theory

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maximize reward and minimize cost

the theory that human interactions are transactions that aim to maximize one’s rewards and minimize one’s costs.

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reciprocity norm

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an expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them.

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social-responsibility norm

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we help others who need our help, expectation that people will help those dependent upon them

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conflict

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perceived incompatibility of actions, goals or ideas

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social trap

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harm collective well-being by pursuing personal interests

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mirror-image perceptions

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each demonizes the other

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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influence makes you act so that it comes true (Ex: You think he hates you, so you act coldly to him. He is offended and thus does hate you)

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superordinate goals

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goals that bring people together to cooperate

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attitude

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feelings that influence our thoughts, actions, etc.

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central route to persuasion

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persuasion that occurs when interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.

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peripheral route to persuasion

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persuasion that occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker’s attractiveness.

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normative influence

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conformity based on a person’s desire to fulfill others’ expectations, often to gain acceptance.

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informational influence

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conformity occurring when people accept evidence about reality provided by other people

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social facilitation

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(1) original meaning-the tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better when others are present (2) current meaning-strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses owing to the presence of others.

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GRIT

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acronym for “graduated and reciprocated initiatives in tension reduction”-a strategy designed to de-escalate international tensions.

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group polarization

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group-produced enhancement of members’ preexisting tendencies; a strengthening of the members’ average tendency, not a split within the group.

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culture

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the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

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prejudice

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a negative prejudgment of a group and its individual members

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just-world phenomenon

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the tendency of people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.