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Ch.12 Social Psych Flashcards

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Soloman Asch (1907-1996)

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Polish-American social psychologist who studied conformity, wrote social psychology (1952)

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What was Asch interested in and studied?

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Interested in perception and memory

Studied conformity/visual discrimination

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Who used confederates in experiments?

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Asch

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Confederates

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collaborators with the experimenter

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Asch’s Conformity Study

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Conformity: Changing bhvr as a result of real or imagined group pressure
Participants: Male college students in a study concerning visual discrimination tasks
Some participants began to give obviously wrong answers

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What did they find from Asch Conformity study?

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Found true participants went along with incorrect answers ⅓ of the time. true participants tested individually

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Stanley Milgram

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American social psychologist

Conducted controversial studies on obedience to authority

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Who was a mentor to Asch?

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Stanley Milgram

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Obedience to Authority (1974) (Milgram)

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where he proposed that participants had undergone Agentic shift

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Agentic shift

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proces in which people transfer responsibility for their own actions to an authority figure

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Consequences of the obedience studies:

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Review of ethical treatment,
Solidified that situation is the main determinant of behavior
Demonstrated that carefully scripted scenarios in the lab could be used to test hypotheses

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Milgram’s Obedience to Authority Study (1963)

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Obedience: following direct commands, usually from an authority figure;
Participants: 40 volunteers (20-50 years) at Yale University who became “the teacher” in a study on the effects of punishment on learning and memory
Procedure: Teacher chosen; learner is taken to another room; sample shock to teacher; paired-associate learning task and instructions for incorrect answers

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What were the results of Milgram’s Obedience to Authority Study (1963)?

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100% of the teachers’ administered some shock; 65% of “the teachers” obeyed he experimenter’s command to deliver 450 volts to the “learner”

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Experimenter feedback from Milgram’s Obedience to Authority Study (1963)

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First participant dropped out at 300 volts

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Muzafer Sherif (1906-1988)

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Turkish-American psychologist who studied the spread of social norms and the dynamics of intergroup conflict

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Psychology of Social Norms (1936) (Sherif)

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examined the ways perceptual judgements are influenced but social interactions

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Sherif used autokinetic effect method:

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stationary point of light appears to move; asked distance and direction

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What did Sherif do when he went back to Turkey?

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administered a special version of the Stanford-Binet to adolescents in urban and rural areas

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What did the special version of the Stanford Binet test do?

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to test the effects of exposure to modern technologies on intelligence

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1949 Robbers Cave (OK) study (Sherif)

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studied the processes that lead to conflict and cooperation among groups of boys attending a summer camp

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What is phase 1 of the 1949 Robbers Cave?

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first week of camp, groups name themselves the eagles and the rattlers, formed attachments to group members, not aware of the other group (randomly divided)

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What is phase 2 of the 1949 Robbers Cave study?

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group conflict with 4-5 days of competition plus 2 days of cooling off (losers get nothing)

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phase 3 (robbers cave)

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used conflict resolution: “continued” tasks-tasks requiring them to work together for 6-7 days

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Realistic Conflict Theory (Sherif)

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group conflict arises from competition over resources

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social cognition (sherif)
typical thought patterns that people engage in as they interact with others (drives our social behavior)
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Leon Festinger (1919-1989)
american social psychologist who developed social comparison theory and cognitive dissonance theory
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Social Comparison Theory (Festinger)
the proposal that people evaluate their own opinions and abilities by comparing themselves to other people who are similar to them
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who wrote their experiences from the alien story?
When prophecy fails (1956) by festinger, stanley, schachter and henry riecken
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What happened in the chicago housewife story i’m 1954?
She said she had telepathic communication with space aliens who told her the earth would be destroyed
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Theory of cognitive dissonance (festinger)
the mental discomfort that occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs or when there is a mismatch b/w attitudes and behavior ex: “i am on a diet, although i just at cake, it’s okay i’m not on a diet anymore”
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Boring task experiment (festinger & carlsmith)
participants were paid $1 or $20 to complete the task, researchers wanted to see which would say the task was interesting those that were paid $1 said it was more interesting
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What did the boring task demonstrate?
demonstrated how to construct dramatic social situations in the laboratory to test important hypotheses about human behavior
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What needs to be changed for cognitive dissonance?
it’s not one thing you say, it’s your behavior that needs to be changed
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Stanley Schacter (1922-1997)
american social psychologist who developed the two-factor theory of emotion, festinger was his mentor
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Two-factor theory of emotion
the proposal that emotions consist of general physiological arousal and a cognitive evaluation based on the situation
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deviation from group standards (schacter)
the reward for confirming is acceptance into group
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social perceptions (schacter)
the ways that we make inferences about motivations and intentions
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Harold Kelley (1921-2003)
american social psychologist who played importance roles in developed interdependence and attribution theories
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Kelley’s classic thesis
how being told someone is “warm” or “cold” affected others attitudes and behavior toward that person
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Who collaborated with John Thibaut?
Kelley did on “the social psychology of groups (1959)
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interdependence theory (kelley)
is a description of how the costs and benefits of particular interactions lead to decisions about whether to cooperate or compete and whether to continue or leave the relationship
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kelley’s covariation model
proposal that people make attributions by considering which potential cause best predicts the behavior
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how many potential causes for behavior are there?
3
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what is the first potential cause for behavior?
the personal characteristics of the person were making an attribute about
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what is the second potential cause for behavior?
other people that make up the social situation
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what is the third potential cause for behavior?
time-modality, the characteristics of the specific situation in which the behavior was taking place
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ellen berscheld (1936- )
american social psychologist recognized as leader in the field of relationship science
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What does ellen berscheld do for research?
looking at stability in relationship, satisfaction in relationships, emotional experiences in relationships
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Who collaborated with kelley on “close relationships” 1983
Ellen Berscheld
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Close relationships (1983)
dynamics of close interpersonal relationships/ romantic love
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Lee ross (1942-2021)
american psychologist who discovered the fundamental attribution error
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Why did lee ross call it “error”
because situational factors are ignored even when they’re important for explaining the behavior and salient to the observer
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What do we tend to feel that drives behavior?
personal characteristics
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social relations
study of interactions between two or more people, groups or organization
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Robert Zajonc (1923-2008)
polish-american social psychologist who explained social facilitation, and discovered the mere exposure effect
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social facilitation
it is the effect that the presence of others has on an individuals ability to perform a task
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mere exposure effect
it is the observation that people tend to like familiar items more than unfamiliar ones

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