Mod 75 and 76 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Norms
Understood rules for Acceptance and expected behavior. Norms prescribe “proper” behavior.
Conformity
Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Normative social influence
Influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.
Informational social influence
Influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept other’s opinions about reality.
social facilitation
Improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others.
social loafing
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
Group polarization
The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group. (low prejudiced students becoming more accepting after talking about radial issues)
Groupthink
The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision - making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
Culture
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
Zimbardo
-created Fundamental Attribution Error
-conducted extremely controversial study on conformity to social role, called Stanford Prison experiment
Heider
-developed Cognitive dissonance
-developed Attribution theory
-Gestalt and social psychologist, considered one of the founding fathers of interpersonal social psychology
Stanley Milgram
Blind Obedience (conformity)
Other race effect
when you can’t recognize differences between two people of a different race than you or that doesn’t look like you.
Aggression
Any physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone physically or emotionally.
Frustration-aggression principle
the principle that frustration - the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal - creates anger, which can generate aggression
Social script
S culturally modeled guide for how to act on various situations.
