Social Psychology

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Social Psychology

• Chapter 20 21 Review

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Group Behavior
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Group Behavior

• When the desire to be part of a group prevents a
  person from seeing other alternatives.

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Groupthink
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Group Behavior

• When a person performs better in front of a
  group.

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Social facilitation
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Group Behavior

• Not doing your best in a group because you think
  others will do more

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Social Loafing
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Group Behavior

• When group attitudes become stronger after they
  discuss and act upon the shared attitudes.

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Polarization
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Group Behavior

• When a person is willing to do things with a
  group they would not do alone.

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Risky Shift
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Group Behavior

• Feeling you are less responsible when with a
  group

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Diffusion of responsibility
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Group Behavior

• Loss of self-awareness and self-restraint, and
  loss of sense of responsibility when in a group.

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Deindividuation
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Helping Behavior
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Helping Moral Behavior

• Sacrificing your own welfare to help another
  person.

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Alturism
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Helping Moral Behavior

• Obviously neglecting someone needing help because
  of diffusion of responsibility.

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Bystander Effect
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Helping Moral Behavior

• Any behavior that helps another person.

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Prosocial Behavior
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Helping Moral Behavior

• This real life case study led to the theory of
  bystander effect.

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Kitty Genovese Murder
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Helping Moral Behavior

• These experimenters tested helping behavior by
  faking an epileptic seizure.

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Darley Latane
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Conformity Obedience
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Conformity Obedience

• Found people would knowingly give the wrong
  answer to conform to the group.

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Aschs Line Experiment
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Conformity Obedience

• Unspoken or unwritten rules you dont pass gas
  in math class but you might when with friends.

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Implicit Norms
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Conformity Obedience

• Guidelines for what people should or should not
  do in a situation

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Social Norms
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Conformity Obedience

• Spoken or written rules dress codes or traffic
  laws.

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Explicit Norms
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Conformity Obedience

• Our the desire to be correct makes us more likely
  to conform

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Informational social influence
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Conformity Obedience

• Our desire to gain social acceptance and approval
  that causes us to conform

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Normative social influence
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Conformity Obedience

• Found most people would obey an authority figure
  to do something hurtful to another if authority
  figure accepted responsibility.

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Milgrams Shock Experiment
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Aggression

• Found good people will become aggressive in the
  right environment or when they buy into their
  roles

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Zimbardos Prison Study
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Social Perception
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Social Perception

• People get what they deserve and they deserve
  what they get.

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Just-World Bias
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Social Perception

• Recent interactions with a person cause you to
  change your opinion about them.

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Recency Effect
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Social Perception

• When I get good grades it is because I am smart.
  When I dont it is because the teacher is bad.

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Self-Serving bias
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Social Perception

• The mental processes used in making judgments
  about people.

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Person perception
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Social Perception

• First impressions are lasting impressions dress
  up for a job interview.

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Primacy Effect
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Social Perception

• When you think a person is rude because the only
  time you saw the person was when they were
  impolite to another forming a judgment on one
  behavioral observation.

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Actor-Observer Bias
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Social Perception

• Tendency to give too much weight to personality
  factors and not enough weight to situational
  factors when observing someones behavior.

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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Social Perception

• When something bad happens it is always my
  fault. When something good happens it is luck.

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Self-Effacing Bias
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Social Perception

• She deserved to be mugged for being in that
  neighborhood after dark. Their misfortune is
  their own fault.

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Blaming the Victim
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Social Perception

• Ignores a persons unique qualities and makes a
  conclusion about a person based on limited
  information. Like to group people

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Social Categorization
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Social Perception

• We often explain our own behavior differently
  than we explain the behavior of other people can
  lead to errors.

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Attribution Theory
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Social Perception

• Waitresses received higher tips when making
  change with their customers this way.

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Physical Contact
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Attitudes Prejudice
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Positive or negative evaluation of a person,
  object or idea.

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Attitudes
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Prejudice was overcome when groups cooperate to
  achieve a common goal.

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Robbers Cave
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Blaming a complex problem on an undeserving
  group.

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Scapegoat Theory
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Attitudes Prejudice

• After being discriminated against, a person may
  put down another group that is worse off in order
  to gain power.

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Victimization
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Unfair treatment of a person because they are
  part of a particular group.

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Discrimination
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Children will imitate their parents attitudes
  and parents will reinforce these attitudes in
  their children.

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Social Learning
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Unjustifiable attitude towards a group or a
  member usually negative.

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Prejudice
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Belief that people with less money are lazy and
  do not work as hard.

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Justifying Economic Status
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Oversimplified belief about a group that is
  certainly not true about all people in that
  group. Tall people are good basketball players.

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Stereotype
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Tendency to favor ones own group even at the
  expense of others.

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Ingroup Bias
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Attitudes Prejudice

• Tendency to see people who are not part of our
  group as being very similar, when we see people
  of our own group as varied.

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Out-Group Homogeneity Effect
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Attitudes Prejudice

• This experiment with school children showed how
  quickly ingroups and outgroups can be formed and
  how prejudice can influence ones performance.

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Jane Elliots Blue/Brown Eye Experiment