Social Psychology Flashcards
Fritz heider
Australian American psych, who begins work on interpersonal behavior
Personal disposition
An inborn trait, sometimes inherited from a parent
Fundamental attribution error
Overestimating influences of personal factors and underestimating the effect of context
Role playing
People who behave certain ways in scripted scenarios have adopted attitudes in keeping those roles
Foot-in-door-phenomenon
Describes people’s willingness to agree to a large request after having agreed to related smaller requests
Cognitive dissonance
Proposes that we feel uncomfortable when we act in ways that conflict with our feelings/beliefs. We reduce this discomfort by revising our attitudes to align them more closely with our behavior
Chameleon effect
Tendency to unconsciously mimic those around us
Suggestibility
Quality of bring inclined to accept and act of the suggestions of others
Solomon asch
Found that:
-people conform to groups judgment even when it’s clearly incorrect
Normative social influence
We conform to gain social approval
Informational social influence
We welcome the info that others provide
Stanley milgram
In his experiment:
- people were torn btw obeying and responding to another’s pleas to stop the shock
- most obeyed
Social psychology
How people think about, influence, and relate to one another
Social facilitation
When one tends to increase performance on well or easy learned tasks but decrease it on difficult or newly learned ones
Social loafing
When one rides free on the efforts of others
Deindividuation
A psychological state in which people become less self-aware and self-restrained, may result when a group experience aroused people and makes them feel anonymous
Group polarization
An enhancement of the groups prevailing opinions
Groupthink
Groups pressure members to conform, suppress dissenting information, and fail to consider alternatives
Prejudice
An attitude composed of beliefs, emotions and predispositions to actions
Stereotypes
Sometimes accurate but often over generalized beliefs
Just-world phenomenon
The tendency of people to believe he world is just and that people get what they deserve
Aggression
Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt
Social trap
Conflicting parties, by each rationally persuing their self interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior
Self-disclosure
Transition from passionate to companionate love
