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Social Psychology Flashcards

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What is social psychology?

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Seeks to understand, explain, predict how thoughts, feelings and behaviours influence and are influenced by the presence of others (actual, implied, imagined).

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What is person perception?

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The process of forming impressions of others

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How does physical appearance play into person perception?

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We pay more attention to “good-looking” people, and ascribe desirable personality traits to them.

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What are cognitive schemas?

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Idea structures that help guide information processing. Quick and simple ways of categorizing and making evaluations.

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What are social schemas?

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Organized clusters of ideas about social events or people.

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What are self-schemas?

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Memories, beliefs, and generalizations about one’s behaviour in a domain- affects information processing, ease of assimilation, judgement, and heightened resistance to counter information.

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What are stereotypes?

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Social schema about people due to group membership

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What is illusory correlation?

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Perceiving a relationship between two things even when no such relationship exists.

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What is an example of selective recall?

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Cohen’s 1981 study of the librarian and the waitress

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What is the evolutionary perspective of attractiveness?

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Attractiveness bias based in reproductive standards-female youthfulness and male physical vigour.

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What are attributions?

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Causal explanations for behaviour

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What are internal and external attributions?

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Internal- ascribe causes of behaviour to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, feelings.
External- Ascribe the causes of behaviour to situational demands and environmental constraints.

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What is fundamental attribution error?

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The tendency to explain the behaviours of others as dispositional- may be more cognitively available, situational pressures not readily apparent to observer.

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What is the actor-observer effect?

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Discrepancy between explaining others’ behaviours as dispositional and our own as situational. Actors tend to explain their behavior as situational, and observers explain theirs as dispositional.

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What is self-serving bias?

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Success is attributed to personal factors, failure is attributed to situational factors.

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What is defensive attribution?

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Blaming the victim for misfortune.

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Culture and Attributions: Collectivism

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Group identity and goals over personal identity and goals.

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Culture and Attributions: Individualism

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Personal goals and personal identity over group goals and identity. Higher rates of fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias, need for esteem and competitive perception.

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What is interpersonal attraction, and what goes into that attribution?

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Positive feelings towards another. Physical attractiveness and romantic attribution, similarity effects, reciprocity and self-disclosure, proximity.

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What does the Triangular Theory of Love (Sternberg) consist of?

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  1. Intimacy (warmth, closeness, sharing)
  2. Passionate (complete absorption of the other)
  3. Commitment (staying despite cost and hardship)
  4. Romantic Love (Intimacy+passion)
  5. Fatuous Love (passion+commitment)
  6. Companionate Love (intimancy+commitment)
  7. Consummate love (all three together)
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What are the 3 adult attachment styles?

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Secure, avoidant, anxious/ambivalent

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Love and Culture

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For the most part, people look for the same things in their partners (attractiveness, kindness, intellect)-although marriage and romance can be more passionate love in individualistic cultures.

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What are attitudes?

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Relatively stable and enduring evaluations of people, things, and events. 3 components-affective, behavioural and cognitive.

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What are some of the ways that attitude develops?

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Socialization and childhood, exposure to the attitudinal target, other people’s opinions of the attitudinal target.

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Explicit vs Implicit attitudes

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Explicit-attitudes that we are conscious of and can readily describe
Implicit-attitudes that we are not conscious of and have little control over

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Components of persuasion

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Message, source, and receiver. Takes either the central route (more intelligent people who value credible sources) vs peripheral route (less intelligent people who value likeable sources).

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What is the mere thought effect?

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When just thinking about something changes your attitude towards it.

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What is the mere exposure effect?

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When just being around something changes your attitude towards it.

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Self-Perception Theory

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Looking at behaviours as a sign of our attitudes

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What is cognitive dissonance?

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The result when we behave in a way that is different than the way we feel, or think contradictory thoughts.

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What are norms?

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Conventions of society guiding “right,’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

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What is conformity?

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The tendency to yield to real or imagined group pressures

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Asch Studies on conformity

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7 people at a table judging the length of lines, only 1 of these people wasn’t a researcher. 75% of people gave at least one wrong answer when all researchers agreed on something incorrect. Size of group also shown to be more influential (anything under 4 doesn’t work).

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What is obedience?

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The act of following direct commands, usually from an authority figure.

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What are social roles?

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Set of norms ascribed to a persons social position.

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What was the Milgram experiment and what did it seek to understand?

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Seeking to understand ethical atrocities approved by nation states- electric shock study, told participants they were doing a study on learning, was actually on obedience. Showed extent of authority on behavior.

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What was the Stanford Prison Experiment?

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Conducted by Zimbardo, randomly assigned subjects as guards or prisoners. Within a few days, the guards began using demeaning punishment/reward, and abusing prisoners.

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What is a group?

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An organized collection of individuals in which the members are aware of and influence one another and share a common identity.

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What is altruism?

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Acting on behalf of others without expectation of compensation or reciprocity.

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What are egoistic helping behaviours?

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Acting on behalf of others to reduce ones own distress or receive rewards/recognition

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What is the bystander effect (apathy)?

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The more people are around, the less likely someone will help

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How does productivity benefit from group size?

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Additive tasks benefit from group size.
Conjunctive (“and”) tasks benefit from selective membership (limited by weakest member)
Disjunctive (“or”) tasks benefit from group size (benefit from strongest member)

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What is social loafing?

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When people exert less effort on a collective task than they would if it were an individual task

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What is social facilitation?

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When performance improves due to the presence of others

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What is group polarization?

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When attitudes in place become more intense due to group interaction

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What is groupthink?

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When agreement is valued at the expense of critical thinking

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What is social neuroscience?

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A field that works to identify the brain structures and systems involved in socially bound experiences.

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How are rejection and pain related?

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Rejection produces same neural substrate as physical pain.

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How is the amygdala associated with stereotyping?

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Fear response, IAT shows that amygdala is activated when black faces are shown.

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