Final Test Flashcards
Common social situations
Classroom, work, being with family or friends
(Social) norms;
Expected behaviors In a social situation
Conformity;
Behaving like other people in social situations (usually following the norm)
Why do people conform
To avoid sanctions
Define sanctions
Unpleasant consequences
Give an example of social facilitation
People show their best performance on a practiced task, when with other people
(Like competitions)
Give an example of social loafing
People tend not to Give best effort in a group based activity
(Group project for class)
Define obedience;
Following commands of an authority figure
Define milgrams famous studies (1960s-1970s)
The extent to which people obey an authoritative figure
What happened in milgrams studies
Participants we were told administer electric shocks to learn or whenever Lerner made a mistake
What was the learners job during the studies
Memorize a list of words and if a mistake was made the participant was required to shock of the learner
Socks increase starting at 15 Volts and going up to 450
The voltage increased in intervals of ____ volts everytime the learner made a mistake
15 volts
__% of participants went up to 450 volts
65
When the instructions were over the phone the participants who went all the way to 450 volts went down to __%
23
It then continued to go down to __% if they saw others obey
10%
Define attribution;
Trying to determine the causes of people’s behaviors
Internal (dispositional)
It’s your personality
External(situational)
The situation you’re in, something is going on in your life, at this time that leads to behavior
Factors that influences attribution
Consistency and distinctness
Define social psychology
The study of behaviors, thoughts, feelings in context of other people( social situations )
Consistency;
Person behaves same way all the time (internal)
Distinctiveness
Different than usual (situational)
Tendencies in attribution
Sway towards internal or external
Fundamental attribution error
Someone else does down thing wrong, we tend toward internal attribution