What is social psych? Flashcards
What is social psychology
How peoples behaviour is influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.
Two different definitions made by? How do they differ?
Allport 1968 and Smith and Mackie 2015
Differing by Allport mentioning the implied presence of others whereas Smith and Mackie do not
What are the three levels of analysis in humans?
Thoughts, feelings, behaviour
Social facilitation (Triplett)
Social facilitation is where people perform better when in the presence of others- developed to be only if you are skilled at the thing you are doing
Social Inhibition
Social inhibition is where people get worse at something when in the presence of others when they are not skilled at the thing they are doing
Zajonc investigated ……. The presence of …….increases….. so our dominant response arises which may be right or wrong
the role of arousal
others
arousal
What massive event led to investigating obedience?
WW2
Discuss Milgrams research- include some results
Normal people shocked learners to deadly levels when being pushed by an authority. 60% shocked to max
Decreased when learner and teacher were in the same room
Increased when agreeing confederate present, decreased when disagreeing confederate present
Decreased when teacher was close to learner.
What is creative followership?
Creative followership is where participants are aware of what they are doing but believe they are doing the right thing (e.g. aiding science) therefore sharing the goals of the experimenter.
