Social Psychology 2 Flashcards
Social Psychology
Study of how people think, feel, and behave in social situations.
Social Thinking
Understanding how individuals perceive the causes of behavior, form impressions, and change attitudes.
Attribution
Process of assigning causes to behavior, whether internal (dispositional) or external (situational).
Forming Impressions
The cognitive process of developing opinions and judgments about others based on available information.
Attitudes and Attitude Change
Study of beliefs and feelings that predispose people to respond in particular ways to objects, people, and events.
Social Influence
The impact that others can have on an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Norms, Conformity, and Obedience
Social rules and expectations, the tendency to conform to group norms, and the compliance with authority.
Compliance Techniques
Strategies used to encourage others to comply with a request.
Behavior in Groups
How individuals act when part of a group, including social facilitation and social loafing.
Attraction
Factors influencing liking and loving others.
Decreasing Prejudice
Efforts and strategies to reduce bias and discriminatory attitudes.
Aggression
The study of harming others, including its causes and forms.
Altruism
Behavior driven by selfless concern for others, often involving acts of kindness.
Social Media and Group Behavior
The influence of social media on behavior, including fear of missing out (FOMO) and phubbing.
Australian Focus
Applying social psychology principles to the context of Australia.
Global Focus
Understanding social psychology within a global perspective.
Levels of Analysis
Different perspectives used to study social psychology.
Social Relations
Examining the dynamics of how individuals interact with each other.
Social Norms
Shared expectations or rules about appropriate behavior within a group or society.
Asch’s Conformity Experiment
A series of studies conducted by Solomon Asch in the 1950s to investigate the extent to which people would conform to group pressure.
Stanley Milgram’s Study on Obedience
A series of psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study the willingness of participants to obey authority figures, even when it involved potentially harmful actions.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
A belief or expectation that influences a person’s behavior in such a way that it causes the belief to come true.
Stereotypes
Cognitive shortcuts or generalizations about a group of people based on their membership in that group.
Prejudice
A preconceived opinion or judgment about an individual or group based on their membership in a particular category.
Discrimination
Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
Social Psychology
The scientific study of how people think, feel, and behave in social situations.
Attribution
The process of explaining the causes of people’s behavior, including our own.
Conformity
Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to align with a group standard.
Norms
Shared expectations or rules about appropriate behavior within a social group.
Obedience
Compliance with commands or orders issued by others, typically those in authority.
Groupthink
The tendency of a group to make decisions based on maintaining consensus rather than critically evaluating information.
Social Identity
The part of a person’s self-concept derived from their group memberships.
Prejudice
A negative attitude or emotional response toward a certain group and its members.
Discrimination
Behaviors or actions that result in the unequal treatment of individuals or groups based on their membership in a particular category.
Stereotype
A generalized belief about a group of people, often based on oversimplified ideas.
Social Influence
The process through which the presence or actions of others can affect the way individuals behave or think.
Bystander Effect
The phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when others are present.
Cognitive Dissonance
The discomfort or tension that arises when individuals hold conflicting beliefs or attitudes.
Milgram Experiment
A study on obedience conducted by Stanley Milgram, where participants were instructed to administer what they believed were increasingly severe electric shocks to another person.
Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment
An experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo that investigated the psychological effects of perceived power in a simulated prison environment.
In-Group/Out-Group
The tendency to categorize people into social groups, with the in-group being the group to which an individual belongs and the out-group being those perceived as different or outside one’s group.
Social Facilitation
The tendency for people to perform better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks when in the presence of others.
Door-in-the-Face Technique
A persuasion strategy where a large request is made, and if rejected, a smaller request is made.
Foot-in-the-Door Technique
A persuasion strategy where a small request is made, and if agreed to, a larger request is made.
Social Loafing
The tendency for people to exert less effort when working together on a task than when working individually.
Scapegoat Theory
The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.
Just-World Phenomenon
The tendency to believe that the world is just, and people get what they deserve.
Self-Serving Bias
The tendency to attribute positive events to one’s own character but attribute negative events to external factors.
