Social Psychology Flashcards
According to terror management theory, what are two thugs that help people manage terror associated with fear of death?
Self-esteem and cultural worldview
Mental Health Model (MHM)
Developed by Morgan
Proposes an inverse relationship Btwn psychopathology and sport performance.
The actor-observer effect is:
The tendency to overestimate situational factors and underestimate dis positional factors regarding one’ sown behaviors and to underestimate situational factors and overestimate dis positional factors in others.
What is the covert that describes the tendency of individuals to work less hard when in a group than when alone?
Social loafing
What is Social Exchange Theory of attraction?
States that a person’s level of attraction and satisfaction from a relationship is derived from perceived costs and benefits of the relationship
What are the five bases of social power describe by French and Raven
Legitimate - administrative authority Expert - specialty knowledge Referent - respected role models Coercive - punish Reward
What is the self-serving bias?
The tendency to attribute one’s own successes to internal factors and one’s failures to external factors. It does not operate the same across cultures.
Group polarization
Tendency of individuals who start off with similar views to end up with a more extreme position after group discussion
Social facilitation
Improved performance on tasks due to the presence of other people
Social loafing
Decreased individual productivity that occurs when the size of the work group increases
Self-serving bias
Tendency to take credit for our successes and to blame situational factors for our failures
Fundamental attribution error
Tendency to explain OTHER’S behavior in terms of internal disposition as opposed to external situational factors
Ultimate attribution error
An attributional bias that occurs at the group level. Tendency to assume that whole groups of people have similar dispositions
Actor-observer effect
Tendency to overestimate situational factors and underestimate dispositional factors for one’s OWN behaviors and to underestimate situational factors and overestimate dispositional factors in others
Lewin’s field theory
Behavior is a function of the relationship between the person and the environment
