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15 Cards in this Set
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Social Psychology
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-The Scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
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Attribution Theory
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-Suggests how we explain someone's behavior we either attribute it to the person's deposition or to the situation
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Dispositional attribution
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Behavior caused by factor internal to the person
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Situational Attribution
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Behavior caused by external factors
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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-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 |
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Conformity
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-Adjusting one's behavior or thinking toward the group standard
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Normative Social Influence
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-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 |
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Informational Social Influence
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-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 |
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Obedience
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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 |
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Attraction - Proximity
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- 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 |
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Attraction - Physical Appearance
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-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 |
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Attraction - Similarity
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-Friends and couples far more likely to share attitudes, beliefs, and interest
-The more alike the people are, the more their liking endure |
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Altruism
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-Unselfish regard for the welfare of others
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Mere Exposure Effect
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- More we expose to them more we tend to increase our liking
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Bystander Effect
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-The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present
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