Week 10 Flashcards
What is the definition of social psychology?
The scientific study of how individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, implied, or imagined presence of others
What is Lewin’s formula for behavior?
B = ƒ(P, E), where behavior is a function of personal and environmental factors.
What is the significance of Lewin’s work in social psychology?
Emphasized the power of the situation and the importance of individuals’ current construals of their environment.
Name three key studies from the 1950s-1970s in social psychology.
Asch’s Conformity Experiments (1951).
Milgram’s Obedience Studies (1963).
Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment (1971).
What is Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Theory?
The theory that people experience discomfort when their attitudes and behaviors are inconsistent, leading them to change one to reduce the dissonance.
What is Tajfel & Turner’s Social Identity Theory?
A theory that explains how personal and social identities influence self-esteem and intergroup behavior.
What is the construal principle?
To understand behavior, focus on how individuals interpret (construe) their social environment.
What is Social Identity Theory?
A framework explaining how group memberships and social categories shape self-esteem and intergroup relations.
What is Self-Categorization Theory?
A theory that suggests people categorize themselves and others to reduce uncertainty and maintain positive self-concepts.
How does social psychology differ from sociology?
Sociology: Focuses on societal-level factors like culture and economy.
Social Psychology: Focuses on individuals’ behavior within their social context.
How does social psychology differ from personality psychology?
Personality Psychology: Studies individual differences.
Social Psychology: Studies how social environments shape behavior.
How does US social psychology differ from European social psychology?
US: Emphasizes experimental methods and individual-level analysis.
European: Focuses on structural and sociocultural contexts.
What does political psychology study
How socio-political environments influence decision-making, group psychology, and political behaviors.
What is critical social psychology?
A branch of social psychology that challenges traditional models, focusing on inequality, power dynamics, and social justice.
What is liberation psychology?
A perspective focused on addressing the psychological impacts of oppression and injustice, emphasizing historical and social contexts.
What is the Authoritarian Personality by Adorno (1950)?
A study exploring personality traits associated with prejudice and authoritarian attitudes.
What is the Contact Hypothesis by Allport (1954)?
The idea that under appropriate conditions, intergroup contact can reduce prejudice.
What is the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald et al., 1998)?
A tool to measure implicit biases by assessing automatic associations between concepts.
What are the main focuses of social psychology
The influence of social contexts on individual behavior.
The role of construals in shaping behavior.
What are the key traditions in social psychology?
Mainstream, political, critical, and liberation psychology.
What are the key traditions in social psychology?
Mainstream, political, critical, and liberation psychology.
How does critical social psychology differ from mainstream approaches?
It focuses on social justice, critiques inequality, and emphasizes structural factors over individual behavior.
