Week 1-Social Nature

Question 1

What is Allport’s definition of Social Psychology?

Answer 1

Understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.

Question 2

Define Social Perception

Answer 2

Attitudes and attributes to other people

Question 3

Define Social Presentation

Answer 3

Impacted by group identities

Question 4

Define Social Influence

Answer 4

Conformity-minority affecting majority

Question 5

Define Intergroup Relation

Answer 5

Facilitate/Undermine relation

Group Decision Making-Attitude and Behaviour Change-Persuasion

Question 6

What is the interpersonal attraction?

Answer 6

Why are we attracted to certain people…

Question 7

Who is said to be the ‘father’ of experimental Social Psychology?

Answer 7

Kurt Lewin

Question 8

At what point in the history of Social Psychology was there a turn towards studying cognition

Answer 8

In the 70s

Question 9

Which are of the following are essential to conducting ethical laboratory experiments?

Answer 9

Ensuring the physical welfare of participants, Obtaining informed consent, Debriefing participants

Question 10

What was the first Social Psychology experiment?

Answer 10

Triplett-Social Facilitation- Cycle faster in front of people social influence

Question 11

What is the Process-Oriented Approach?

Answer 11

To find causation using what, when and why

Morning morality effect

Question 12

What is the levels of analysis (Types of theories) in Social Psychology?

Answer 12

1) Individual Explanation- Traits e.g. high in empathy
2) Immediate Social Context-Aware of Social Norms
3) Wider/Broader Social Beliefs- Collectivist vs Individualist societies and cultural beliefs

Question 13

History and Origins of Social Psychology

Answer 13

Comte- Psychology is a science

LeBon-Crowd behaviour

McDougall- Understanding biological basis of social psychology

Ross-Interested in conformity and social influence

Thurstone-Attitudes can be measured
LaPierre-Attitudes vs Action
Sherif-Autokinetic effect changed answers based on what others say. Social factors in perception

Question 14

What did Kurt Lewin say about the behaviour and what were his research findings?

Answer 14

Behaviour is a function of the person, the environment and the interaction between the two.

B=f(P,E) (Function of environment &Person)

Situation and Environment are important for shaping behaviour.

Question 15

What important societal beliefs impacted researchers?

Answer 15

Asch: Conformity and Person Perception
Milgram: Obedience
Festinger: Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Social Comparison Theory
Heider: Balance Theory and Attribution Theory

Question 16

What are the different Social Psychological Research Methods?

Answer 16

Lab Experiments-IV/DV

Field Experiments- Cues in environment impacted behaviour

Archival Research- Finds trends through archibes e.g. trends in twitters

Case Studies
Qualitative Research

Discourse Analysis- Conversations between people
Survey Research-Correlation between variables, manipulate certain things
Field Studies-Observed in natural settings

Question 17

Growth and Integration in 1960s

Answer 17

Stereotyping and Prejudice- School desegregation
Aggression-Weapons effects (seeing a weapon makes u more aggressive)
Altruism- Bystander Intervention- Kitty Genoveve assuming someone else will help. Diffusion of responsibility
Interpersonal relations-attraction

Question 18

1970s-Age of Cognition

Answer 18

Naive Scientists-Attribution Models- why we have biases in our attributions

The cognitive Miser-Schemas-(cognitive structures and mental frameworks of the world)-Heuristics- A statistic can change in behaviour

The Motivated Tactician-Accuracy motivation to be correct

Question 19

European Social Psychology

Answer 19

Europeans believed the US was more reductionist (don’t consider everything different functions and factors influencing)

Focussed on micro explanations