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what is social psychology? |
examines the influence of social processes on peoples Thought Feelings Behavior |
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what are norms ? |
Rules about appropriate behavior in different situations. They are powerful but hard to articulate. they are generally unwritten. They help society to function effectively; uncertainty reduction can have negative consequences |
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What factors effect conformity ? |
Ambiguity/uncertainty Uninanimty/dissention Group size Identification with group Personality Culture Gender? (depends on task) |
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What are some examples of when conformity goes wrong ? |
The bystander effect. -The more people available to give help, the lower the chance of recvieving help
social loafing -social loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone |
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What is social loafing ? |
Exert less effort in group than alone: let others pick up the slack
Why ? Less effort same reward Less noticeable in a large group Important factors -Liking/identification with group -Group expresses disapproval -Culture |
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What is obedience? |
Change behavior to meet demand of authority figure. |
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factors affecting obedience |
Experimenter's status/prestige Others behaviour Peers (e.g stopped vs. completed experiment) Experimeter (e.g contradicting each other) Learner (request to stop vs. complain of pain) Personality characteristics (e.g authoritarian, empathy) |
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what is social perception ? |
Social Perception is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people. We learn about others' feelings and emotions by picking up on information we gather from their physical appearance, and verbal and nonverbal communication.
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What is the halo effect ? |
the tendency for an impression created in one area to influence opinion in another area.
The halo effect can be defined as the tendency to use global evaluations to make judgments about specific traits. In other words, we use a global characteristic (such as attractive or likable) to determine specific personality traits (such as outgoing or kind). We attribute personality qualities to people we have only seen, even though we have never met them, and the qualities have nothing to do with their looks. This phenomenon happens unconsciously - we are unaware of the bias we develop simply because of a person's attractiveness. |
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What is a schema ? |
A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information. Schemas can be useful because they allow us to take shortcuts in interpreting the vast amount of information that is available in our environment. However, these mental frameworks also cause us to exclude pertinent information to focus instead only on things that confirm our pre-existing beliefs and ideas. Schemas can contribute to stereotypes and make it difficult to retain new information that does not conform to our established ideas about the world.
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What is attribution ? |
The process of understanding and explaining the cause of behavior this is to understand behavior, predict and control a situation. there is internal and external causes. |
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what is attributional bias ? |
distortion of our understand of other people behaviour. Others behavior = internal Own behavior = external |
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what is victim blaming ? |
Explaining others misfortunes as their fault |
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What is a stereotype ? |
Schema about a group of people |
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Levels of sterotypes ? |
public (Consciously aware and openly admit) |
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What is prejudice |
Attitudes towards someone on basis of their group membership |
