Social Psychology Test 4

Question 1

What are the 4 types of conformity?

Answer 1

Normative
Informational
Ingratiational
compliance

Question 2

What is conformity?

Answer 2

“Conformity is a type of social influence involving change of belief or behavior to fit with the norms of a group.”

Question 3

What is internalization?

Answer 3

The individual’s actually believing the value or truth of the behavior or belief

Question 4

What is normative examples of conformity

Answer 4

Can be a profession or a belief.
Ex: saving the pandas or being vegan
being afraid to go against the group.

Question 5

What is information conformity?

Answer 5

Looking to group for information or using group beliefs and behavior to guide one’s own behavior
Ex: Dis liking some one because of the group you are in
When one believes what is said

Question 6

What is Ingratiation conformity?

Answer 6

Conforming to impress people or gain favor.
Ex: Joining a group of friend who love drinking.
& politicians

Question 7

What is compliance?

Answer 7

Involves conforming to desires of authority figure or group on an order because of fear of punishment
Ex: being in the army

Question 8

What was Milgram’s teacher and learner experiment about.

Answer 8

Teacher had to shock learner when wrong. Shock voltage constantly went up. 2/3 of the participants gave the max shock even though it would of really hurt some one.

Question 9

What causes conformity?

Answer 9

Unanimity

Question 10

When are people more likely to conform? In high importance or low importance situations?

Answer 10

High importance situations

Question 11

What is cohesiveness?

Answer 11

extent to which members of a group are bound together

Question 12

What is the chameleon effect?

Answer 12

The tendency to mimic another person’s speech inflections and physical expressions.
It makes people like us more

Question 13

What is morality?

Answer 13

Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad

Question 14

What is descriptive morality?

Answer 14

is the study of the description and explanation of morality as it actually exists
Ex: What ppl actually think is wrong.
Its wrong to eat human flesh

Question 15

What is preceptive morality?

Answer 15

is a description of how we ought to behave regardless of how we do behave
Ex: What we should do.
Stop eating human flesh

Question 16

What did Lawrence Kohlber’s cognitive developmental stages in children mean?

Answer 16

It focused on how humans develop moral reasoning.

Proceed in stages

Question 17

What were Kohnberkgs 3 stages?

Answer 17

Pre- conventional
conventional
post conventional

Question 18

What is pre-conventional?

Answer 18

Focused on the self

Question 19

What is conventional?

Answer 19

Acceptance of society standards of wright and wrong.

Question 20

What is post conventional?

Answer 20

When one lives by their own ethical principles.

Rules are useful but can be changed.

Question 21

What is Haidt’s intuitionism?

Answer 21

According to Haidt, most of our moral beliefs are driven by underlying intuitions
INTUITIONS are quick, visceral (gut) responses to something in the world

Question 22

What are the 5 moral foundations?

Answer 22

1. Harm/ Care
2. Fairness
3. Authority
4. Purity
5. Loyalty

Question 23

What are the 2 types of fairness?

Answer 23

1. Equality: Valuing equal opportunities

2. Equity: Valuing equal outcomes

Question 24

What is the difference between manual and automatic emotions

Answer 24

Automatic emotions come naturally

Manual emotions are more difficult to use and are usually applied to out group members

Question 25

What is Utilitarianism?

Answer 25

Part of consequentialism
- What matters is the outcome (cost vs. benefit)
What leads to maximum well-being?

Question 26

What is deontological?

Answer 26

Some acts are just wrong, regardless of the outcome

Question 27

What is the self?

Answer 27

the subject of one’s own experience of phenomena: perceptions, emotions, thoughts.

Question 28

What is the uniquely human self?

Answer 28

Animals may not have selfs.
The human self can...
Judges others and itself!!
Makes/controls behavioral plans
Has beliefs about others and itself
It can travel backward and forward in time

Question 29

What is theory of mind?

Answer 29

Theory of mind- the ability to contemplate others’ points of view

Question 30

What is self handicapping?

Answer 30

Putting obstacles in the way of ones performance so potential failure can be blamed on obstacle rather than the lack of ability

Question 31

True of false Baumeister believes that self control is a muscle?

Answer 31

TRUE

Question 32

True or false Mischel sees self control as a stable trait?

Answer 32

TRUE

Question 33

What is cognitive dissonance?

Answer 33

When we can have contradictory thoughts or emit behaviors that contradict our beliefs

Question 34

What is agency detection?

Answer 34

Tendency to attribute intention & intelligence to situations or objects that may or may not have those

Question 35

What is hyperactive agency detection?

Answer 35

When you hear a noise and assume something is there

Question 36

What is error management theory?

Answer 36

Humans are designed to make the less costly error