Social Psychology (Ch 16) Flashcards
Stanley milgram
Shock experiment disguised as learning experiment
63% of people obeyed until the very end
65% obeeyed in a follow up condition where the confederate
Started with small shocks.
Went to end if there was pressure from the experimenter
-10 later experiments showed that women’s conformity rates were similar to that of men’s
Conformity
Yielding to real or imagined social pressure Solomon asch
Power of the situation - Philip zimbardo Stanford prison experiment (1971)
- assigned participants as roles. T
hose assigned as guards actually stated to act like guards and beat the prisoners
- cut short
- social roles - shared expectations on how people are supposed to behave
- renewed interest in Abu Ghtaib prison scandal (2004)
- the lucifer effect
Guards came up with bizarre psychological punishments as they couldn’t do physical violence
-considered one of the most unethical studies ever done because people suffered from it
Solomon asch
line test, conformity
People would yield to majority opinion even when it conflicts with their own
Group size and unanimity mattered
3-9 is optimal group size
In the first line test rounds the person wouldn’t conform but then eventually would? ( this is how the video had it)
-but actually most people told the truth than not. the participants conformed a little more than 1/3 of the time
Abu ghraib
American soldiers used psychological torture to extract information from terrorists
(Separate event): +Greece Soldiers used foot in the door and role playing to get other guards to increasingly be brutal to prisoners
Lucifer effect
Name for How good people turn evil
Social roles
Shared expectations on how people are supposed to behave
Why did the soldiers feel that torturing the prisoners at Abu ghraib was okay?
They were following orders There was escalation of the evil tasks (there were in other situations, I’m not sure if there was at Abu Ghraib specifically
Why did some people stop in the mil gram experiment
They were people who had resisted earlier They felt personally responsible for possibly harming the people they were shocking
Social facilitation
Usually when involving simple, well practiced skills -your behavior improves in front of a crowd -eg workin out harder in a gym with other people around rather than when you are by yourself
Group influence
-social facilitation -social impairment -deindividualization
Social impairment
When task is difficult Sometimes when in crowd your behavior gets worse -eg in class presentation you know how how to speak properly and you know the content but you stutter and say um in front of class
Deindividualization
Lose self-restraint in group situations Mob mentality - anonymous Nuthouse cheering section - you will cheer nonstop when there are 300 people but not if the audience is just you and 5 friends -anonymous YouTube commenters
Group Influence
SFSID
Kitty Genovese Case
(1) REAL LIFE:-Woman stabbed for 35 minutes -38 people saw it, only one called police (2) Experiment:-Talking to recording where someone on hte ohter side had a fake seizure. the more people in recording, the less likely the person was to seek help for the “person” having a seizure
- Diffusion of responsibility
What happens when you try to evaluate the personality of someone else?
You view their personality as more fixed and less based on context than you do of you own personality -eg. in class activity where we evaluated our teachers’ personalities and our own personalities
Person Perception
forming impressions Physical appearance Stereotypes
Social Psychology
How our thoughts and behaviors are influenced by others 6 topics: Person perception Attribution processes Interpersonal attraction Attitudes Conformity & obedience Behavior in groups
Physical Appearance
Attractiveness and personality traits People describe desirable personality traits to those who are good looking, even though little correlation exists in reality. Why? Vastly overrepresented in media – seen in good light. This means that they get better jobs and earn higher salaries.
Stereotypes
– expectations of different groups schemas? Illusory correlations Prejudice discrimination Out-group homogeneity
Schemas
can lead to prejudices
Illusory Correlation
e.g. adopted someone leading to pregnancy
prejudice
undesereved undeserved negative attitude about a group you absorb the prejudices of the people your are with Contact Theory
discrimination
acting on your prejudices
In-group bias
you prefer people in your in-group your ingroup fluctuates throughout the day based on social context
Out-group homogeneity -
members of your in-group are more diverse than members of other groups -Other -race effect
other race effect
outgroup homogenity, except specifically with race “All asians are good at math” “all white people are rich” Thinking people in your out-group are one-dimensional
Clark Experiment (1940s)
gave black and white girls identical black and white dolls. Both the white and the black girls agreed that the white dolls were better
Paper Bag test
At certain fraternities (even black fraternities), you could only get into hte fraternity if your skin was lighter that than a paper bag
Contact Theory
- The more you are around someone, the less your are prdjudiced to them - Boy Scout Case example: red vs blue rivalry built up for 3 weeks, broken down in 1 hour after working together to sovle a crisis
Jane Elliot
Brown eyed, blue eyed experiment “We couldn’t htink as well with the collars (denoting the inferior eye color) on” “Don’t judge unless you walk in that person’s mocassins”
Attributions
Explaining Behavior Ex: How walnut won the league championship
Bias in Attribution
- Fundamental Attribution Error
- Just World Phenomenon
- Self-serving Bias
¨Fundamental Attribution Error
¡observers’ bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining other’s behavior
overestimating internal/traits of others and not thinking enough of situational factors
¨Just-World-Phenomenon
¡Defensive attribution
- blame-the-victim
- the girl with the short rhots was asking for rape
Self-serving Bias
Attribute our succes to personal factors and our failures to situations factors
Key Relationship Factors
¡Physical attractiveness - Matching hypothesis
¡Similarity §Age, race, religion, social class, education, intelligence, attractiveness, values, attitudes
¡Reciprocity – liking those who like you
Love
- ¡Passionate love - sexual feelings, intense emotion
- §Increases dopamine ¡
- Companionate love - warm affection
- §Intimacy – closeness
- §Commitment – intent to maintain relationship
- ¡Attachment (secure, avoidant, anxious/ambivalent)
Attitudes
- ¡Positive or negative evaluations
- ¡mere exposure effect – the more you are around something, the more you will come to like it
- ¡ attitudes and behaviors don’t always match
- §1930s LaPiere study
- ¡cognitive dissonance – when related cognitions contradict each other
- §happens outside of awareness
- §Festinger-Carlsmith study (1959)
- ¡
mere exposure effect –
the more you are around something, the more you will come to like it
§1930s LaPiere study
¡ attitudes and behaviors don’t always match
– traveled with Chinese wife and colleague – no discrimination. Mailed out survey 6 months later: 92% said they wouldn’t serve Chinese.
¡cognitive dissonance –
when related cognitions contradict each other
- §happens outside of awareness
- §Festinger-Carlsmith study (1959)
Festinger-Carlsmith:
cognitive dissonance
college students given boring task, then asked to do a “favor” for the research assistant and tell the next person it was really fun – were paid either $1 or $20 (today 80-90) to lie. Those paid $1 later reported it more enjoyable
Compliance Strategies
- ¡foot-in-the-door phenomenon –
- ¡ ¡door-in-the-face phenomenon –
- ¡ norms of reciprocity
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
a tendency for people who agree to a small action to comply later with a larger one
-milgram: well 40 volts isn’t too much more painful than 30 volts, which ive already shocked him with
Door in tn face phenomenon
The persuader attempts to convince the respondent to comply by making a large request that the respondent will most likely turn down; much like a metaphorical slamming of a door in the persuader’s face. The respondent is then more likely to agree to a second, more reasonable request, compared to the same reasonable request made in isolation.[1][2] The DITF technique can be contrasted with the foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique, in which a persuader begins with a small request and gradually increases the demands of each request
While the FITD technique differs from DITF, it is also a persuasion technique that increases the likelihood a respondent will agree to the second request
Norms of reciprocity
a compliance strategy
the expectation that people will respond favorably to each other by returning benefits for benefits, and responding with either indifference or hostility to harms
gratitude, Golden rule, mutual goodwill
Prom king/queen.: Giving every one cookies. A person looks at ballot “Oh that person gave me a cookie. i’ll return the favor and vote form them.”
Group Decision Making
- group polarization
- groupthink