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Social Psychology Flashcards

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Social psychology

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How social context and cultural environment impact a person’s thoughts, feelings, actions

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Fundamental motivations

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  • Need to belong
  • Need to think about ourselves positively
  • Need to feel a sense of control
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Social norms

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Patterns of behaviour, traditions, beliefs and preferences that are reinforced by those around us and influence our behaviour

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Conformity

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People often adopt behaviours and beliefs of those around them

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Informational social influence

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Wanting to understand the world or behave correctly, so conforming to the world around us

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Autokinetic effect

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A single stationary light appears to move if there isn’t anything to anchor it

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Normative social influence

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The pressure to conform to gain approval (peer pressure)

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Deindividuation

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Losing sight of own individuality

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Social facilitation

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Presence of others impacts performance by favouring the dominant response
- Easy -> most likely to succeed
- Challenging -> make mistakes

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Social loafing

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How people “slack” when working in a group
- when they feel individual performance isn’t noticed, or the work is too easy

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Leader

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Authority to wield influence over others’ behaviour

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How do “earning respect” and “dominance and intimidation” leadership styles differ?

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Earning respect is effective even when the leader isn’t there
Dominance results in a population that fears

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Stanley Milgram

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Social psychologist that ran the Milgram experiments

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Milgram Experiments

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Determine the effect authority had on a person’s actions
- Learner paired with participant, if learner failed to recall word list, participant instructed to give them a shock
- 65% of participants continued to listen to experimenter against their better judgment

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Aggression

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Any behaviour directed toward the goal of harming another living being (not just physically)

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General aggression model

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The factors taht conbine to produce aggressive behaviour
- Background (personality, situation)
- Event (trigger, response)
- Resulting action (either impulsive action or thoughtful)

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Why does aggression happen?

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When there is something in the way of a person’s goal

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Factors that can lead to aggression

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Irritants, headache, hangry, etc

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Negative events cue…

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negative thoughts

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Physical aggression is usually…

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Usually men

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Passive aggression is usually…

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Usually women

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Weapon effect

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Simple exposure to a weapon can increase aggressive responses

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Is there a correlation between video games and aggression?

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No clear evidence of increased aggression

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Prosocial behaviour

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Actions to assist others toward their goals

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Kin selection

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Assisting those who share your genes to increase the odds of genetic survival

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Norm of reciprocity

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People help those who have helped them in the past or might in the future

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Empathy

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Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes to understand how they feel

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As a white american you are more likely to help someone…

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who is a white american

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Empathy gap

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Unable to understand how someone else is feeling
- easier to empathize with one victim, than a group

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Stereotypes

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Mental ideas/schemas that summarize beliefs and associations of groups of people
- picked up from our culture, people, media

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Inaccurate representation of crime data

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  • Too much about black suspects
  • Too much about white victims
  • Latinos underrepresented as victims
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Stereotypes can lead to…

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Inaccurate judgements about people, but also reasonable predictions sometimes

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The more tired someone is…

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The more likely they are to use stereotypes

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To fight against stereotypes…

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Perceive similarities and help justify the way things are

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Complementary stereotypes

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Positive and negative traits to certain groups

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Prejudice targets…

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The core motivation of belonging
- means that discrimination hurts a person’s health

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Contact hypothesis

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Prejudice can be reduced through friendly/cooperative interactions

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Reducing prejudice

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Working together
As equals
Toward a common goal
In an environment where those in the position of authority support social change

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Sherif’s Robber’s Cave Study

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Two groups of boys in forest, against each other, until they are presented with a challenge that required them to work together

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Positive interactions with a person

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Expands sense of self (empathy)

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Strongest prejudices

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When someone has no prior experience or exposure

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Diversity training programs

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Somewhat effective

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What percent of americans use social media?

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72%

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What percent of young American adults use social media?

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84%

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What does feeling connected lead to?

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Lower stress

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Social media can lead to…

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People feeling jealous and ignored
Also connected

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What percent of youth adults use dating apps?

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48%

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What percent of people knew someone who formed a long term relationship on a dating app?

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29%

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Benefits of dating apps

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Lots of options
Online communication
App pairs matches

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Downsides of dating apps

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People don’t always know what they want
They set high expectations for their matches

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