6 Flashcards
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Social Psychology.
The study of how people influence other’s behavior, beliefs, and attitudes for both good and bad.
Need to Belong Theory.
When were deprived of social contact we usually become lonely. we have a biological need for interpersonal connections. we seek out social bonds when we can. we suffer negative psychological and physical consequences when we don’t seek out social bonds.
Social Referencing.
Just as often turn to others to better understand ourselves, we often look to them when a situation is ambiguous to figure out what to belive and how to act.
Mass Hysteria.
Is a contagious outbreak of irrational behavior that spreads like a flu epidemic.
Collective Delusions.
Many people simultaneously come to be convinciced of bizzare things that are false.
Urban Legends.
False stories that have been repeated so many times that people belive them to be true.
Fundamental Attribution Error.
The tendency to over estimate the impact of dispositional influences (who they are) on others behavior. And underestimate the impact of situational influences (what’s going on around them) on others behavior.
Attribution.
Process of assigning causes to behavior.
Situational.
External factors (something makes it move)
Dispositional.
Internal factors (it wants to move)
Actor Observer Error.
A tendency to judge others behavior with an internal influence while judging our own behavior with an external influence. (tripping in hallway)
Conformity.
The tendency of people to alter their behavior as a result of group pressure.
Social Norms.
Widely accepted ideas or rules indicating how people should behave, represents the standard behavior for a social group.
Deindividuation.
The tendency of people to engage in atypical behavior when stripped of their usual identities.
Dehumanization.
The transformation of ordinary people into different or even wanton perpetrators of evil. Dehumanization is like a “cortical cataract” that clouds one’s perception that the other people are less human. less worth while.
Groupthink.
Emphasis on group unanimity at the expense of critical thinking. So intent on everyone agreeing that they lose the ability to evaluate objectively. someone needs to be the devils advocate.
Cults
Groups that exhibit intense and unquestioning devotion to a single cause.
Obedience.
Compliance adherence to instruction or orders from person, group, or of high authority. Vertical transmission. The group influence springs not from peers but ‘leaders’
Pro social behavior.
Behaviour intended to help others any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person.
Altruism.
Any act that benefits another, but does not benefit the helper and often involves some personal cost to the helper. Helping others for unselfish reasons.
Bystander Apathy.
The non-responsiveness of bystanders is due to a lack of not caring.
Bystander Effect.
A less consequence of apathy than of ‘psychological paralysis’ the more people there are the less likely anyone will help. “Diffusion of responsibility”
Bystander Effect.
A less consequence of apathy than of ‘psychological paralysis’ the more people there are the less likely anyone will help. “Diffusion of responsibility”
Pluralistic Ignorance.
Error of assuming that no one in a group perceives things as we do
