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Social Psychology
-The Scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
Attribution Theory
-Suggests how we explain someone's behavior we either attribute it to the person's deposition or to the situation
Dispositional attribution
Behavior caused by factor internal to the person
Situational Attribution
Behavior caused by external factors
Fundamental Attribution Error
-Tendency to overestimate internal factors and to underestimate situational factors in explaining behavior
Ex:ten to blame poor grade to something internal(laziness) than situational like family
Conformity
-Adjusting one's behavior or thinking toward the group standard
Normative Social Influence
-Desire to gain social approval and avoid social disapproval
-Our sensitivity to social norms, rules for accepted and expected behavior
ex: clapping when the crowd is clapping
Informational Social Influence
-When we're not sure how to act, we look to other people
-They are sources of information regarding hwow to behave
-Assuming they know what they are doing, and we welcome the information
Obedience
Stanley Milgram 1963
-Placed newspaper ads for men to participate in study on the effects of punishment
-One leader, one teacher
-every time the learner made a mistake on memorizing a word they get punished/shocked
-Teacher did not stop raising voltage despite learner saying he got a weak heart
Attraction - Proximity
- How close we are to another person geographically
Moreland & Beach 1992, 4 attractive women tend a different number of classes asking the male, the women he sees the most gets picked for most likable/attractiveness
Attraction - Physical Appearance
-First impressions of a person is most affected by their physical appearance
Walster et al 1966, students randomly matched with blind dates at a dance, students took personality test/ aptitude test, after the test only physical attraction mattered
Attraction - Similarity
-Friends and couples far more likely to share attitudes, beliefs, and interest
-The more alike the people are, the more their liking endure
Altruism
-Unselfish regard for the welfare of others
Mere Exposure Effect
- More we expose to them more we tend to increase our liking
Bystander Effect
-The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present