Important Names Flashcards
(21 cards)
Aronson and Linder
- Gain-loss principle
- evaluation that changes will have more effect than an evaluation that stays the same
Asch
- conformity
- subjects compare lengths of lines
Bandura
- social learning theory
- learning through social contexts
Clark, K. and Clark, M.
- doll preferences in black children
- results used in 1954 Brown v. Board
Darley and Latané
- two factors that could lead to non-helping
1. social influence
2. diffusion of responsibility
Eagly
-gender differences in conformity not due to gender per se, but differing social roles
Festinger
- cognitive dissonance theory
- social comparison theory
Hall
-norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions
Heider
- balance theory -> why attitudes change
- attribution theory -> two categories
1. dispositional
2. situation
Hovland
-attitude change
Janis
- groupthink
- how group decision making can go awry
Lerner
-belief in a just world
Lewin
- 3 leadership styles
1. autocratic
2. democratic
3. laissez-faire
McGuire
- psychological inoculation
- people resist pursusation
Milgram
- obedience
- stimulus-overload theory -> differences between city and country dwellers
Newcomb
-political norms
Petty and Cacioppo
- elaboration likelihood model of persuasion
1. central
2. peripheral
Schachter
-relationship between anxiety and need for affiliation
Sherif
- autokinetic effect -> conformity
- Robber’s Cave experiment -> superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation
Zajonc
- mere exposure effect
- resolved problems with social facilitation effect
- > presence of others enhances emission of dominant responses, impair emission of non-dominant responses
Zimbardo
- prison simulation
- deindividuation
