Social Psychology - Individual

Question 1

What is public good dilemma

Answer 1

A situation that a cooperation is not worth individually, but if everyone decide to not cooperate the system ruins (like taxes)

Question 2

What is the bystander effect

Answer 2

When people fail to help in an emergency situation

Question 3

Why neighbors did not help the stabbed woman

Answer 3

The had a diffusion of responsability - felt that other people could take the action and help

Question 4

The failing in evaluate others people behavior is called

Answer 4

Pluralistic ignorance

Question 5

When we make inferences about a person behavior, such if it would be dispositions or situational, it is called

Answer 5

Attribution

Question 6

What is the difference between dispositional and situational attribution?

Answer 6

Dispositional - when our inference put the cause in the individual

Situational - when our inference put the cause in the situation

Question 7

How correspondence bias relates to attribution theory?

Answer 7

It says that we have a natural tendency to make dispositional attribution to other people, while we do situational to ourselves.

The Castro essay experiment. You are a supporter! No matter if it’s only because the experiment assigned you to this role

Question 8

Which area of the brain is activated when we feel the pain of being lonely

Answer 8

Anterior cingulate cortex

Question 9

Cite some examples of how autism impairs social capacity

Answer 9

1) don’t have emotional reciprocity
2) deficits in nonverbal communication
3) deficits in developing and understanding relationships