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What do social psychologists study?
how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
what are attitudes?
-feelings based on our beliefs that predispose our reactions to objects, people, and events
-guide our actions sometimes
attribution theory
-how people explain explain others' behavior
-people usually attribute other's behavior either to their internal dispostions (personality) or to their external situations (environment)
fundamental attribution error
-the tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personality
foot-in-the-door phenomenon
the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small requewt to comply later with a larger request
role playing
Zimbardo assigned the roles of guards and prisoners to random students and found that guards and prisoners developed role appropriate attitudes
-had to stop study because it got out of hand; people changed attitudes
congnitive dissonance
-when we are aware that our attitudes and actions don't coincide we experience tension
-we change our attitudes to get rid of this
conformity
adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
chameleon effect
we unconsciously mimic others' expressions, postures, and voice tones to help us feel what they are feeling
Milgram's obedience studies
-tells subjects he is interested in the effect of punishment on learning
-one is teacher and the other is the learner
-learner led to adjoining room
-you sit in front of the electric shock machine with 30 switches that go from 15 to 450 volts
-the learner must learn word pairs
-63% of men complied fully
social loafing
the tendency for people in group to exert less effort when pooing their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
social facilitation
improved performance of tasks in the presence of others - occurs with simple or well-learned tasks but not with tasks that are difficult or not yet mastered
deindividuation
-the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity (mob behavior)