Behaviour in social and cultural context Flashcards
Social norms
everyday rules in a society
social roles
rules in positions in a society
culture
the rules in the various communities that we participate in
milgram experiment
- predicted people would stop at 150 volts and that only 1/1000 would go to the end but
- 2/3 of all participants went all the way to the top 450 volts
Zimbardo’s prison experiment
- was supposed to last 2 weeks but was stopped after 6 days because of ethical implications
why do people obey?
- allocating responsibility of their actions to the authority
- routinizing task
- wanting to be polite
- becoming entrapped
social cognition
social influences on thoughts, memory, perception, other cognitive processes
attribution theory
tells us that our attributions fall into either dispositional attribution or situational
dispositional attribution
good people do good things, evil people do evil things
situational attribution
good people can do evil things depending on the situation
fundamental attribution error
overestimate disposition & underestimate the influence of situation
Cognitive Dissonance
- having two beliefs that contradict each other
- our of a psychological need to maintain consistency among your beliefs you may want to change one of them
what is a good example of an experiment showing conformity?
the ash experiment where participants had to decide which line was longest but there were confederates who skewed the data to get other participants to sy the wrong answer
group think
thinking as a group like a cult and not thinking for yourself right from wrong
genotype
make up of a cell, organism or individual
