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30 Cards in this Set
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Social Psychology |
Study of how living among others influences thought, feeling and bheaviour |
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Attribution |
Inferences made about the cause of other people's behaviour |
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Dispositional vs. Situational Attributions |
Dispositional: Ascribe a person's behaviour to their personality, motives or attitudes
Situational: Ascribe a person to something outside of the personality, such as the nature of the situation (Self-serving bias, blaming the victim, fundamental attribution error) |
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Schemas |
Models about the social world, acts like filters for our perceptions
Woman at a party: Drunk or Parkinson's?
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Stereotypes |
Schemas of how a group of people are likely to behave based on group membership
Avoiding stereotypes activates prefrontal cortex |
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Out-group homogeneity |
Tendency to see al the out-group members as the same |
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Prejudice vs. Discrimination |
Prejudice: Negative attitude Discrimination: Negative behaviour |
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Implicit Association Test |
What we did in the lab |
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Cognitive Dissonance |
Discomfort caused by information that challenges a person's conception as a rational person |
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Persuasion |
Attempting to change the ideas beliefs or opinions of others
Source Method Audience |
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Social facilitation |
The presence of others enhances or performance
Improvement on easy tasks and Impairment on difficult tasks (cockroaches) |
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Social loafing |
The presence of others causes one to relax and lack off (if individual effort cannot be separated from group)
Tug of war blindfolded
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Social norms |
cultural rules about acceptable behaviour |
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Conformity |
Adjusting behaviours to match others and adhere to norms |
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Informational Social Influence |
Informational Social Influence: Others are a source of knowledge
Normative Social Influence: Desire to be accepted
Line comparison study |
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Groupthink |
Thinking of the group takes over, forgo logical and critical thinking, can be disasterous
Difficult to test |
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Obedience |
Type of conformity, a person yields to the authority of another person
Stanley Milgram (Shocks) Stanford Prison Study |
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Aggression |
Violent behaviour that is intended to cause physiological or psychological harm, Deliberate and often driven by anger |
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Types of aggression |
Hostile: Driven by anger Instrumental: is an instrument to something else |
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Where does aggression come from? |
Genetic disposition (genes are not enough to cause violent behaviour)
Genetics and environment (abuse and neglect) |
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Aggression and the body |
Brain: Hypothalamus, amygdala, prefrontal cortex Chemical Messengers:Serotonin, testosterone |
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Media and Aggression |
Mortal Kombat vs. PGA Golf, then administering loud noises to confederate
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Diffusion of Responisbility |
When there are many people around, people feel less responsible to act |
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Conditions for intervening |
Notice event, interpret as emergency, cost-benefit analysis, ability |
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Altruism |
Selfless concern for giving aid to others |
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Empathy |
Sharing feeling and understanding about another person |
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Empathy-altruism hypothesjs |
Someone will only only give selfless help if they feel empathy with the victim |
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Exposuer |
Direct exposure to anything can cause us to like it more |
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Reciprocal liking |
We like people who like us |
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Physical Attractiveness |
We are attracted to people with symmetrical and mathmatically average faces |
