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Social Psychology Flashcards

1
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Scientific study of how individuals behave, think, and feel in social situations

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Social psychology

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2
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Two social roles

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Ascribed role

Achieved role

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Assigned to a person or not under personal control (male/female (sex), son, daughter, adolescent)

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Ascribed role

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Attained voluntarily or by special effort (spouse, teacher, scientist)

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Achieved role

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When two or more roles make conflicting demands on behavior and on people

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Role conflict

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Network of roles, communication, pathways, and power in a group (army, athletic team; friends)

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Group structure

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Degree of attraction/desire among group members or their commitment to remaining in the group
-proximity, attention, mutual affection

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Group cohesiveness

-cohesive groups work better together

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A group with which one identifies (nationality, ethnicity, age, education, religion, sexual orientation)

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In-group (POS CHAR)

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A group with which one does not identify (exaggerate differences)
-conflict, prejudice

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Out-group (NEG CHAR)

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Process of thinking about ourselves and others in a social context

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Social cognition

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Comparing your own actions, feelings, opinions or abilities to those of others
Not done randomly
Ex. Notes, exam scores, tennis player

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Social comparison

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12
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Making inferences about the causes of ones own behavior and others’ behavior

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Attribution theory

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13
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Behavior can be attributed to (2)

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External causes (lie outside a person)
Internal causes (lie within a person)
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14
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Tendency to attribute behavior of others to internal causes (personality, likes, and so on)
We believe this even if behavior really has external causes

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Fundamental attribution error

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15
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Tendency to attribute behavior of others to internal causes, while attributing the behavior of ourselves to external causes (situations and circumstances)

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Actor-observer effect

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Mixture of belief and emotion that predisposes a person to respond to other people, objects, or institutions in a positive or negative way
-summarizes your evaluation of objects

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Attitude

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17
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Attitude components (3)

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Belief component
Emotional component
Action component

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18
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What a person believes about an object or issue

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Belief component

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19
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Feelings toward the attitudinal object

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Emotional component

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Ones actions toward various people, objects, or institutions

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Action component

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21
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Effects of direct experience with the object of the attitude

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Direct contact (psychologists)

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22
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Influence of discussions with people holding a particular attitude

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Interaction with others

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23
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Effects of parental values, beliefs, and practices

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Child rearing

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Social influences from belonging to certain groups

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Group membership

25
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All media that reach large audiences (magazines, television)

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Mass media

26
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Contradicting or clashing thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, or perceptions that cause discomfort
We need to have consistency in our thoughts, perceptions, and images of ourselves

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Cognitive dissonance

27
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Degree to which ones actions are explained by rewards or other circumstances

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Justification

28
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Changes in a persons behavior induced by the presence or actions of another person

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Social influence

29
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Tendency for people to change their behavior just because of the presence of other people

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Mere presence

30
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Tendency to perform better when in the presence of other people

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Social facilitation

31
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People tend to work less hard (loaf) when they are part of a group than they do when they are solely responsible for their work

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Social loafing

32
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The Asch Experiment

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Select the line that most closely matched the standard line
Other six were accomplices and at times all would select the wrong line
In 1/3 of the trials, the real subject conformed to group pressure even when the groups answers were obviously incorrect

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Compulsion by decision makers to maintain each other’s approval, even at the cost of critical thinking “rock the boat”

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Groupthink

34
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Rewards and punishments administered by groups to enforce conformity
-laughter, staring, social disapproval, complete rejection

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Group sanctions

35
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Bending to the requests of one person who has little or no authority or other form of social power (passive or active)

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Compliance

36
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Three factors that determine whether a person will comply with a request

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The foot in the door effect
The door in the face effect
The low ball technique

37
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A person who has agreed to a small request is more likely later to agree to a larger demand

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Foot in the door effect

-once you get a foot in the door, then a sale is almost a sure thing

38
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A person who has refused a major request will be more likely later on to comply with a smaller request

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Door in the face technique
After the door has been slammed in your face (major request refused), person may be more likely to agree to a smaller request

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Commitment is gained first to reasonable or desirable terms, which are then made less reasonable or desirable
Ex. Henry accepts the price for a new car; then later tille the saleswoman tells Henry, “the business would lose too much money on that price; can’t you take a bit less and add all these options?

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Low ball technique

40
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Changing our behavior in direct response to the demands of an authority figure

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Obedience

41
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Who studied obedience and what were the results

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Milgram

65% obeyed by going all the way to 450 volts on the “shock machine”

42
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Desire to associate with other people
Interpersonal attraction
-basis for most voluntary social relationships

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Need to affiliate

43
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Affinity to another person

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Interpersonal attraction

44
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Marked by high levels of interpersonal attraction, sexual desire, and heightened arousal

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Romantic love

45
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Refers to feelings of connectedness and affection

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Intimacy

46
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Refers to deep emotional and/or sexual feelings

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Passion

47
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Involves the determination to stay in a long term relationship with another person

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Commitment

48
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Study of the evolutionary origins of human behavior patterns

Influences sexual attraction and mate selection

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Evolutionary psychology

49
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Men prefer younger, more attractive partners

Women prefer older, higher status, more successful partners

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Buss found

50
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Unwillingness of bystanders to offer help during emergencies
Related to number of people present
More potential helpers present, the lower the chances that help will be given

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Bystander apathy (bystander effect)

51
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Frustration tends to lead to agression

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Frustration-aggression hypothesis

52
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Produce discomfort or displeasure and can heighten hostility and aggression (baseball)

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Aversive stimuli (insults, temp, pain)

53
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Signals that are associated with aggression

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Aggression cues (internal and external)

54
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Combines learning principles with cognitive processes, socialization, and modeling to explain behavior
Aggression must be learned
Aggression begets aggression

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Social learning theory

55
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Negative emotional attitude held against members of a particular group of people
-racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism

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Prejudice(suspicion, fear, hatred)

56
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Treating members of various social groups differently in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical

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Discrimination

57
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Blaming a person or group for the actions of others or for conditions not of their making

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Scapegoating

58
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Oversimplified images of the traits of individuals who belong to a particular social group (recnecks, billionaires, old people, men, women, etc)

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Social stereotypes

59
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The anxiety caused by the fear of being judged in terms of a stereotype

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Stereotype threat

Psychology Test 4 (4 decks)

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