L9&10 Social psychology

Question 1

What is social psychology

Answer 1

Examines the influence of social processes on people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour

Question 2

What does social psychology consider

Answer 2

Similarities and differences in thoughts, feelings and behaviour across cultures

Question 3

Indigenous psychology

Answer 3

psychologies indigenous to a local cultural and geographical reality

Question 4

Social norms

Answer 4

Shared expectations about how people should think, feel and behave; binds social systems together

Question 5

Factors affecting conformity

Answer 5

Group size
Unanimity
Private response
Expertise, status

Question 6

Conformity

Answer 6

Adjustment of individual behaviours, attitudes and beliefs to a group standard

Question 7

Obedience

Answer 7

The adherence to instructions from those of higher authority

Question 8

What we learned from Milgram’s study

Answer 8

• Power of situations in particular interactions with authority
• Help understand atrocities

Question 9

Attribution

Answer 9

The process of assigning a cause to our own behaviour and that of others

Question 10

Personal attribution

Answer 10

An explanation of a person’s behaviour as caused by dispositional or internal factors

Question 11

Situational attribution

Answer 11

An explanation of a person’s behaviour as caused by situational or external factors

Question 12

Consequences of attribution

Answer 12

Satisfied spouses tend to make internal attributions for their partners’ positive behaviours and external attributions for their partner’s negative behaviours

Question 13

Bias in attribution

Answer 13

Tendency to explain one’s success in terms of internal factors but failures in terms of external factors
* to protect self image

Question 14

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 14

Underestimates the impact of the situation and overestimates the role of personal factors when explaining other people’s behaviour

Question 15

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 15

Occurs when people’s expectations lead them to act in a way that brings about the expected behaviours

Question 16

Stereotypes

Answer 16

A belied about a person’s characteristics on the basis of their group membership

Question 17

Prejudice

Answer 17

a negative attitude toward someone on the basis of their group membership

Question 18

Discrimination

Answer 18

behaviours directed towards someone on the basis of their group membership

Question 19

Explicit prejudice

Answer 19

Prejudice people willingly express in public