Psych 3

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-the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
-“the power of the situation”

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social psychology and the power of the situation

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-baseline: 65%
(shock to 450 volts)
-Does obedience go up or down if
-the subject (teacher) has to force the learner’s hand onto a shock plate?
- 30%
-The subjects (teachers) are women?
-65%
-The experimenter tells the subject (teacher) to stop shocking and the learner demands to be shocked?
-0%
-Two peers (confederates) rebel?
-10%
-A peer administers the shocks while the subject(teacher) does administrative tasks?
-93%

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(miligram obedience experients)
basic paradigm

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-conformity appears to be higher in collectivist cultures

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oVariations on the paradigm (e.g., forcing hand on shockplate, two peers rebel, etc.)

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-allocating responsibility to the authority
-routinizing the task
-wanting to be polite
-entrapment (foot-in-the-door)

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why people obey

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Subjects who obeyed to 450 volts are not sadistic (fundamental attribution error)
Most people believe that they themselves would disobey
Obedience in the real world (e.g., Holocaust)
Ethical issues

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lessons of the obedience experiements

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wanted to know what would happen if ordinary college students were randomly assigned to the roles of prisoners and guards

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stanford prison study

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the theory that people are motivated to explain their own and other peoples behavior by attributing causes of that behavior to a situation or a disposition

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attribution theory

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the tendency, in explaining one's own behavior, to take credit for one's good actions and rationalize one's mistakes

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self serving bias

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the tendency, in explaining other people's behavior, to overestimate personality factors and underestimate the influence of the situation

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fundamental attribution error

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the notion that many people need to believe that the world is fair and that justice is served, that bad people are punished and good people rewarded

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just world hypothesis

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a belief about people, groups, ideas, or acitivities

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attitude

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we are aware of them, they shape our conscious decisions and actions and they can be measured on self-report questionaires

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explicit attitude

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we are unaware of them, they may influence our behavior in ways we do not recognize, and they are measured in various indirect ways

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implicit attitude

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the tendency of people to feel more positice toward a person, item, product, or other stimulus the more familiar they are with it.

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familiarity effect

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the tendency of people to believe that a statement is true of valid simply because it has been repeated many times

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validity effect

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often used to try to persuade people to quit smoking, drive only when sober, use condoms, check for signs of cancer, and nowadays prepare for terrorist attack

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fear

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an effective way of brainwashing.
-the person is put under physical or emotional stress
-the persons problems are reduced to one simple explanation, which is repeatedly emphasized.

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coercive persuasion

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wanted to know what people would do when a group unamimously contradicted an obvious fact. He found that when people made the line comparisons on their own, they were almost always accurate.

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Asch conformity study

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the tendency for all members of a group to think alike for the sake of harmony and to suppress disagreement

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groupthink

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in groups or crowds, the loss of awareness of one's own indiviuality

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deindividuation

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in crowds, when someone is in trouble, individuals oftern fail to take action, or call for help because they assume tht someone many years ago, a woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in a crowded street

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bystander effect

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in work groups, the diffusion of responsibility

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social loafing

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a summary impression of a group, in which a perons believes that all memers of the group share a sommon trait or traits (positive, negative, or neutral)

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stereotype

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a strong, unreasonable dislike or hatred of a group, based on a negative stereotype.

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prejudice

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whites disguise their animosity toward black individuals by claiming they are concerned only about social issues such as "reverse discrimination"

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symbolic racism

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some investigators observe how people behave when they are with a possible object of prejdice. some indiciuals sit farther away then they normally would or reveal other nonverbal signs of discomfort

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measures of behavior

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some social pychologists have joined forces with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists to develop a new specialty called social neuroscience. stdy which parts of the brain are involved in all kinds of social psychological processes including stereotypes

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physiological changes in the brain (amygdala)

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based on the assumption that people are often unaware of their own negative associations with a target group

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unconscious associations