Social Psychology

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Social Psychology

• Cole Michael Edging
• Michael Todter

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Group Dynamics

• Group Structure The network of roles,
  communication pathways, and power in a group
• Ex The army or an athletic team
• Group Cohesiveness The degree of attraction
  among group members or their commitment to
  remaining in the group
• Ex Those who stick together therefore causing
  them to stand or sit close together, pay more
  attention to one another, and show more signs of
  mutual affection

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• Group Structure

• Group Cohesiveness

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Attribution Processes

• One attribution process is Fundamental
  Attribution Error.
• Fundamental Attribution Error The tendency to
  attribute the behavior of others to internal
  causes (personality, likes, and so forth)
• Ex in book kid thinks Macy likes parties, but
  really she only goes because she plays the tuba
  at them
• Actor-Observer Bias Making attributions of
  others behaviors through internal causes, while
  attributing ones own behavior to external
  causes.
• Ex being late to something, and saying it was
  because you were held up from events beyond your
  control.

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Interpersonal Attraction

• Interpersonal Attraction Social attraction to
  another person.
• Ex interested in someone because of their
  personality, who are kind and understanding, and
  who like us in return.

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Conformity, Compliance, Obedience

• Conformity Bringing ones behavior into
  agreement or harmony with norms or with the
  behavior of others in a group.
• Ex Jumping off a cliff because everyone else is
  doing it.
• Compliance Bending to the requests of a person
  who has little of no authority or other form of
  social power.
• Ex listening to a student, who is taking over
  the class for a teacher.
• Obedience Conformity to the demands of an
  authority.
• Ex Taking notes when teacher tells the class to
  do so.

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• Obedience

• Conformity

Compliance
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Attitudes

• Definition of attitude a learned tendency to
  respond to people, objects or institutions in a
  positive or negative way
• Attitude formation-attitudes are acquired in
  several basic ways-
• Direct contact- personal experience with object
  of attitude
• Interaction with others- personal experience with
  people holding a particular attitude

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Attitude Change

• Persuasion-and deliberate attempt to change
  attitude or beliefs with info and arguments
• Communicator-the person presenting argument/info
• Message-the content of communicators arguments
  or presentation
• Audience- the person or group toward whom a
  persuasive message is directed
• Forced attitude change-
• Brainwashing-engineered or forced attitude change
  involving a captive audience
• Cults- group that professes great devotion to
  some person and follows that person almost
  without question cult members are typically
  victimized by their leaders in carious ways

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Organizational Behavior
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Aggression

• Aggression-any action carried out with the
  intention of harming another person
• Instincts
• Biological basis-low blood sugar, allergies,
  specific brain injuries, diseases, higher hormone
  levels
• Frustration-leads to aggression.
• Aversive stimuli-any stimulus that produces
  discomfort or displeasure
• Aggression cues- stimuli or signals that are
  associated with aggression and that tend to
  elicit it
• Social learning-combines learning principles with
  cognitive processes, socialization, and modeling
  to explain behavior

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Antisocial Behavior

• Antisocial personality- a person who lacks a
  conscience is emotionally shallow, impulsive,
  selfish and tends to manipulate others
• Sometimes called
• Sociopaths
• Psychopaths
• Seem to be incapable of having deep feelings such
  as guilt, shame, fear, loyalty, love