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Chapter 13 Flashcards

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Kurt Lewin

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Behavior = function of the Person and the Environment.

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Synchrony

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When two individuals’ speech, language, and physiological activity become similar during social interaction.

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Mimicry

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Copying behaviors, emotional displays and facial expressions.

Usually unconscious

Serves as a ‘social glue’, helps coordinated behavior is social settings.

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Social norms

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Guidelines for how to behave in social contents.

Usually unwritten, or implied.

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Why do we follow social norms?

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Social approval, social pressure.

To avoid ostracism –> Being ignored or excluded from social contact.

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Social roles

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Guidelines that apply to specific positions within the group.

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Social loafing

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A member of the group puts less effort into working on a task than others.

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Factors that encourage loafing

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Low efficacy beliefs.
Believing one’s contribution isn’t important.
Not caring about the outcome.
Feeling like other’s aren’t trying either.

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Social facilitation

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A group member’s performance is affected by the presence of others.

But, the presence of others may impair performance when the task is hard or
skill level is low.

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Conformity

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Change in behavior to fit in with a group.
Can be unintentional.
Similar to mimicry in some ways.

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Reasons for conforming

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Normative influence
Informational influence

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Normative influence
‘Public compliance’

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Social pressure to adopt a group’s perspective in order to be accepted by the group.

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Informational influence
‘Private acceptance’

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Genuine interest in the information provided by the group.

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People tend to be more likely to conform when…

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Larger group in the vicinity.
There are friends, family or acquaintances in the vicinity.
Task is rather ambiguous.
Others conform first.
Responses are made publicly.

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Groupthink

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Decision making problem in which group members avoid arguments and strive for agreement.

Doesn’t always guarantee good decision making.

Usually occurs when there is a strong leader in the group unwilling to accept ideas of other group members, or when all group members have very similar ideals.

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What are some negative aspects of groupthink?

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May minimize/ignore potential problems, risks.

May settle on the ‘easy’ solution too quickly, without considering other (better?) options

May lead to overconfidence, and less time considering consequences of a decision, learning from mistakes.

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Obedience to authority

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Obedience, authority, compliance all topics of interest following WWII.

Stanley Milgram Obedience Studies.
(65% obedience rate)

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Bystander effect

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An individual is less likely to help when there are other people present, who are also not helping.

AKA ‘Bystander apathy’

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Possible explanations to the bystander effect

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Normative influences: “What happens if I end up embarrassing myself?”

Informational influences: “What if others know something I don’t? Am I overreacting?”

Diffusion of responsibility.

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Diffusion of responsibility

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Reduced personal responsibility that a person feels when more people are present in a situation.

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Altruism

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Helping others in need without receiving or expecting reward for doing so.

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Evolution of Altruism

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Seems counterintuitive to natural/sexual selection competition.

Kin selection

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Kin selection

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Strategy that favours reproductive success of a relative.

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Social cognition

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Combines influence of social context and cognition.

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2 major processes in our consciousness

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Explicit processes: Conscious thought
Deliberate, effortful, relatively slow

Implicit processes: Unconscious thought
Intuitive, very fast, effortless, “lower-level
processes”, can lead to bias, stereotypes.

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Schemas

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Organized clusters of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations.

Influence our attention and perceptual processes → Biases

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Heuristics

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‘Best guess’.
Problem solving strategies based on prior experiences.

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Person Perception

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Process by which individuals categorize and form judgments about other people.

Can occur very quickly, unconsciously (Ex: First impressions)

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

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First impression or expectation
affects one’s behaviour –> affects other person’s behaviour –> leads to confirmation of original impression, expectation

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Naïve Realism

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Assumption that our perceptions of reality are accurate, and we see things the way they are.

We tend to view the world from the perspective of our own ‘self-concept’

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False Consensus Effect

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Tendency to project one’s self-concept onto the social world.

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Self-serving biases

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Biased ways of processing relevant information to enhance our positive self-evaluation.

Ex: Taking credit for success, blaming others, circumstances, or bad luck on our failures.

Better than average effect.

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Average effect

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We assume we are above average at skills/qualities that are important to us.

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Internal attributions

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AKA Dispositional attribution.
Explaining the behavior of another person in terms of an innate quality.

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External attributions

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AKA Situational attributions.
Explaining the behavior of another person as the result of the situation.

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Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)

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Tendency to over-emphasize internal attributions and under-emphasize external factors when explaining other people’s behaviors.

Western cultures are more likely to make this mistake.

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Ingroups

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Groups someone feels positively toward and identifies with.

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Ingroup bias

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Extension of a positive bias toward the self to include one’s ingroups.

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Outgroups

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‘Other’ groups someone doesn’t identify with, or dis-identifies with.

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Stereotype

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A cognitive structure (schema) that guides how we process info about our social world.

Set of beliefs about the characteristics of a specific social group.

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Prejudice

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Emotionally charged response toward outgroup members.

Include holding negative attitudes and making critical judgements about other groups.

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Discrimination

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Behavior that disadvantages members of a certain social group.

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Implicit Associations Test

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Measuring Prejudice.
Measures how fast people can respond to images or words flashed on a computer screen.

Rxn. time scores correlate with amygdala activation.

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Improving intergroup relations

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Evidence to suggest that people’s implicit networks can be “reprogrammed” with practice.
Can help avoid stereotypical thinking.

Contact hypothesis: Social contact between members of different groups is extremely important to overcoming prejudice.

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The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)

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Dual-process model of persuasion that predicts whether factual information or other types of information will be most influential.

When an audience is motivated/interested in a topic, and has time to make a decision→ Rational (Explicit) thinking

When an audience is not interested, and has to make a quick decision → Less rational (Implicit) thinking

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Central route to persuasion

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Focuses on facts, logic and content of the messages.

Audience needs both motivation and time to listen and think rationally about the message.

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Peripheral route to persuasion

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Focuses on the features of the issue/presentation that aren’t factual.

Ex: Attractiveness of the person delivering the message.

“Style” vs. “Substance” of the message.

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Tips for successfully communicating a message

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Central route: Make sure message is being presented, clearly, in a manner that’s accessible to all people.
Ex: the curse of knowledge

Peripheral route: Use experts or authority figures, high-status individuals, use likable communicators.

Solid validation –> Other people are listening to this message, so you should too!

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Construal-Level Theory

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Information affects us differently depending on the psychological distance from it.

Distance: Can be actual distance from the message, or how close do you relate with it or if you’re interested in it.

Messages that are made to feel more personally relevant.

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Identifiable victim effect

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People are more powerfully moved to action by the story of a single suffering person than by information about a whole group of people.

Experiential and analytic systems.

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Experiential system

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Operates implicitly, quickly, and intuitively,
predominantly emotional.

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Analytic system

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Operates explicitly, slower and more methodical, uses logic to understand reality.

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Reciprocity

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Strong social norm to repay others.

“Door in the face” technique
1. Ask for something relatively big.
2. Follow with a request from something
relatively small.

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Consistency

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Hard to say “no” after saying “yes”

“Foot-in-the-Door Technique”
1. Make a simple request
2. After they say yes, follow-up with a larger
request.

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Cognitive dissonance

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Inner tension, discomfort felt when we hold
inconsistent beliefs.

Confirmation Bias → Only searching for
evidence that will confirm one’s beliefs.

Self-Justification → Justifying or excusing
one’s behaviors.

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