module 1 Flashcards
How did Brehm and Kassin define social psych in 1993
the scientific study of the way individuals think, feel, and behave in social situations
who defined social psych as ‘the discipline that seeks to understand how the thought, feelings, and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others’
Gordon Allport in 1935
social psych examines the interaction between the person and the ______
situation
what is an example of a famous social experiment about authority
Milgram experiment
internal psychological state examples
attitudes, moods, self-esteem
in psychology, the unit of analysis tends to be the _____, whereas in sociology, the unit of analysis tends to be the _____
individual, group
what is the premier journal in social psych
the journal of personality and social psychology
how does social and personality psych differ
unit of analysis is the person and individual differences (personality traits) for personality but for social it is the interaction and how they respond to environment
clinical vs social psych
clinical: non-normative behaviours
social: normative behaviours
t or f: smiling can make you feel happier
- true
t or f: its more adaptive to alter one’s behaviour than to stay consistent from one social situation to the next
- false
- a balance of both is best
self monitoring
- the extent to which we change from situation to situation
- adapting personality for diff social situations
t or f: i general, ppl aren’t very skilled at knowing when someone is lying
true
t or f: the notion that we can create a self-fulfilling prophecy by getting others to behave in ways that we expect is a myth
- false
- the way one construes social situations affects behaviour and in turn the behaviour of others
t or f: on average, there is not a large diff in self esteem of members of low status stereotyped groups and members of high status non-stereotyped groups.
- true
t or f: ppl tend to underestimate the extent of which others notice their behaviours and appearances
- flase, we overestimate
t or f: researchers can tell if someone has a positive or negative attitude toward a target by measuring their physiological arousal
- false, you cant determine attitude/valance from arousal, only magnitude/extent of physiological arousal from tools
t or f: the more you pay people to tell a lie, the more they will come to believe it
- false
- cognitive dissonance
cognitive dissonance
- when your mental beliefs dont match up with your actions
romantic _____ effect
- red
- when women wear red they are seen as more attractive
t or f: as the number of ppl in a group increases, so does their impact on an individual
- false
- there is an effect of group size but it levels off quickly ie its nonlinear
t or f: ppl cheer louder when they are in a bigger group
false, social loafing
t or f: if your friend does smth embarrassing in a group situation, the rest of the group will judge you harshly as well
- fase
- guilty-by-association effect
t or f: ppl working individually will come up w a greater number of high quality ideas than the same number of ppl working in a group
true, group think
