Unit 10 : Social Psychology Modules 74-80 Flashcards

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Social psychology

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Study of how people are influenced and relate to one another, less focus on self, and behavior is shaped by situations

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Attribution theory

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Explain someone’s behavior by crediting the situation or the persons despositions

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Fundamental attribution error

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Analyzing other and underestimating the impact of the situation and overestimating the impact if personal disposition
->impact our attitudes and how we treat them

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Dispositional attribution

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Explains behavior as a result of their personality/personal disposition

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Situational attribution

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Behavior influenced by situations,

-> with our selves we see the situation of behavior, but not with others

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Self serving bias

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Tend to see ourselves favorably

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Peripheral route

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Influenced by incidental, outside factors; celebrity endorsement (fast results)

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Central route

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Persuade using thoughts, evidence, arguments, challenge human thinking (more durable)

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Foot-in-the-door

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Tendency for people to agree to bigger requests after first agreeing to smaller requests

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Door-in-the-face

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Start off with mega risk request to soften the request that you initially want to ask.

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Role playing

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Philip Zimbardos and Stanford Prison Experiment

  • > participants assigned to roles. : prisoner or guard
  • > the more they act like the role, the more they adopted the attitudes of the role
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Role

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Set of norms and expectations about a position

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Cognitive dissonance

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Leon Fetinger

  • > sometimes actions and attitudes do not match which causes discomfort
  • > in order to reduce discomfort, change attitudes / our actions

Ex : best friend-views them as “good” —> “good” person does something you view as morally wrong
-> change attitude towards the person or change moral views

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Chameleon effect

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Humans unconsciously imitate others expressions, posture, and voice tone

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Conformity study

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Solomon Asch
Experiment with lines
Going against a group/social norm-discomfort-feel pressure to conform

More likely to conform when
a group is in unison
Feel insecure
Admire group
Group is at least 3 people or more
Know we are being observed
No prior commitment to an answer
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Normative social influence

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Conform to gain approval or avoid rejection/disapproval

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Informative social influence

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Conform due to willingness to accept another’s truth

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Obedience Study

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Stanley Milgram

  • > inspired by WW2 and Nazi and how they were obedient even during Holocaust
  • > experiment included teachers (shockers) and students (shocked) if wrong answers were given the student would get a shock and the voltage would increase

Obedience is more likely when

  • > person giving orders is an authority figure
  • > supported by prestigious institutions
  • > victim is depersonalized / at a distance
  • > no role models for defiance
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Social facilitation

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Improved performance on a simple / well-learned tasks in the presence of others, but more difficult tasks seem impossible (arouses)

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Social loafing

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People put in less effort when putting efforts together than when individually responsible (diminishes)

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Deindividualism

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Loss of self-awareness and self restraint occurring in. Group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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Group polarization

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Arguments become more intense during discussion throughout the group

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Groupthink

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desire for harmony in a decision making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternative thinking

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Social control

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Power of the situation

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Personal control

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Control of the individual

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Minority influence

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Power of one or two individuals that can sway majorities if they are firm

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Culture

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Enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

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Norm

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An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior.

Norms prescribe “proper” and transmitted from one generation to the next

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Prejudice

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Unjustifiable and negative attitude toward a group. Includes stereotypes, negative feelings, and discrimination

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Stereotype

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Generalized beliefs about a group of people

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Enthnocentrism

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Assuming the superiority of ones ethnic group

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Discrimination

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Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and it’s members

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Just world phenomenon

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People believe the world is just and that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get

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Social identities

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Definition of who we are in terms of our groups

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Ingroup

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“Us”- people with whom we share a common identity

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Outgroup

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“Then”- those perceived as different and apart from our ingroup

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Ingroup bias

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Tendency to favor our group over the other group

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Scapegoat theory

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Prejudice offers outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

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Other race effect

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Recall faces of ones own race more accurately than faces of other races

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Aggression

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Any physical/verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy

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Frustration-aggression principle

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Frustration due to the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal which creates anger, which can generate aggression.

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Aggressive replacement program

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Help diminish aggressiveness with better reinforcement

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Social script

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Culturally modeled guide for how to act in various situations

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Proximity

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Geographic nearness

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Mere exposure effect

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Reappeared exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them

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Reward theory of attraction

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We like those who’s behavior is rewarding to us and continue relationships that offer more benefits to us than costs

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Passionate love

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Aroused state of intense dopamine levels at the start of a love relationship

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Two factor theory in emotions

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Emotions require physical arousal and cognitive appraisal. Arousal from anywhere can enhance these emotions depending oh how we would label and interpret them.

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Companionate love

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Deep affection attachment we feel for those who are in our life, oxytocin

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Equity

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Condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give

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Self disclosure

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Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others

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Altruism

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Unselfish regard for the welfare of others

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Bystander effect

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Bystanders are less likely to help if other bystanders are present

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Diffusion of responsibility

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Sharing of responsibility makes every single person become less likely to help

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Cost benefit analysis

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Maximize rewards, and minimize cost

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Reciprocity norm

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Expectation that people will help those who have helped them

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Social exchange theory

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Social behavior that aims to maximize benefits and minimize costs

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Social responsibility norm

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Expecting that people will help those needing their help

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Conflict

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Perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas

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Social trap

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People pursue self-interest rather than the good of the group

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Mirror image perception

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Mutual views held by conflicting people, each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful, while the other is evil and aggressive

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Belief that leads to its own fulfillment

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Superordinate goals

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Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation

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GRIT

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Graduated and reciprocated initiatives in tension reduction; strategy designed to decrease international tensions

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Overt prejudice

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Outwardly, and verbal expression, lower in #

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Subtle prejudice

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Internal, automatic preferences, higher in #

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Blame-the victim dynamic

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Caused by the just-world phenomenon