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
