Social Psychology Part 1

Question 1

The study for how groups and cultures shape our perceptions

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Social Psychology

Question 2

Looks at how social and situational factors can influence us both in positive and negative ways

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Social Psychology

Question 3

Research about Social Psychology has raised what type of questions?

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Ethical

Question 4

APA has tightened guidelines due to controversial of what?

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Social Psychology

Question 5

General term for 2 or more individuals sharing common goals and interest, interacting, and influencing each other’s behaviors

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Group Dynamics

Question 6

Implicit/Explicit rules that apply to all members of a group and govern acceptable behavior/attitudes

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Norms

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Allow for smooth social interactions

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Norms

Question 8

Violating this can be grounds for exclusion from the group

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Norms

Question 9

Desire to belong will make people comply with this when they would act differently when they are alone

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Norms

Question 10

Set of expectations about a social position

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Roles

Question 11

Define how those in position ought to behave

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Roles

Question 12

People were assigned either prisoner/guard roles and were measured in how they would react

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Stanford Prison Experiment

Question 13

Slacker

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Self-Loafing

Question 14

When working in groups, that leave the work for other people and let others take on the leadership role

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Self-Loafing

Question 15

Put in more effort in individual assesment

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Slackers/Self-Loafing

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While working in groups, we lose some self awareness and engage in behavior that is unusual or uncharacteristic

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Deindividuation

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Can lead to prosocial behavior

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Deindividuation

Question 18

Tendency to perform well-learned tasks better in front of others

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Social Formation

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Why does Social Formation occur?

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Level of arousal and increased motivation that occurs

Question 20

When first learning a task, performing it in front of others leads to someone not doing a good job

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Social Impairment

Question 21

Decisions reached by a group are often more extreme than those made by a single individual

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Group Polarization

Question 22

Disastrous sequence of group polarization when group members are so driven to reach unanimous decisions, they no longer truly evaluate the repercussions to implications

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Groupthink

Question 23

Bay of Pigs is an example of what?

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Groupthink

Question 24

A group who takes responsibility for criticizing members who do not agree with the rest of the group

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Mind Guard

Question 25

The person who thinks differently than everyone else can sway the opinions of others

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Minority Influence