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Solomon Asch

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Conducted experiments with lines which proved that people will conform to a group even when the group is wrong.

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Normative Social Influence

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Conforming to others in order to be liked/accepted

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Informative Social Influnce

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Conforming to others in an ambiguous situation in order to behave “correctly”

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Groupthink

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People feel it’s more important to maintain a group’s cohesiveness than to realistically consider facts.

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Group Polarization

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People in a group tend to take more extreme positions on an issue than they would individually.

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Social facilitation

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When having a person present as someone else completes a task creates a positive influence on the task’s completion

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Social impairment

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When having a person present as someone else completes a task creates a negative influence on the task’s completion

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Social loafing

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Lazy people don’t work well on a task when others are also working on that task, but do work well on their own

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Deindividuation

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Losing a sense of personal identity when in a group

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Compliance

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People change their behavior as a result of others directing them to change (think foot-in-the-door/door-in-the-face)

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Foot-in-the-door Technique

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Asking fora small favor and then asking for a larger favor

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Door-in-the-face Technique

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Ask for something big, and then downgrade to something smaller/more reasonable

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Lowball Technique

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Once a commitment is made, the “cost” of the commitment is increased

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Obedience

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Changing one’s behavior at the direct order of an authority figure

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Stanely Milgram

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Experiment with administering dangerous shocks showed people’s willingness to obey

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Social norms

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How you are expected to act (can be something like a written law or more of a general expectation)

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Attitude

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Tendency to respond a certain way towards certain things

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Three components to attitude

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Affective (emotion), Behavior (action), Cognitive (thought)

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Direct contact

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Learning an attitude through interacting with the target of the attitude directly

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Direct instruction

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Learning an attitude because someone tells you a certain thing is good/bad

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Interaction with others

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Learning an attitude by being around people with that same attitude

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Vicarious conditioning

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Learning an attitude by observing someone else’s attitude

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Persuasion

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When someone tries to change someone else’s attitude through argument, pleading, or explanation

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Components of persuasion

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Source, message, target audience, and medium

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Elaboration likelihood model of persuasion
People will either add details (elaborate) based on what they hear or won't at all
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Central-route processing
When you just take a persuasive message at face value
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Peripheral-route processing
When you elaborate on a persuasive message based on peripheral cues and context
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Cognitive dissonance
When people find themselves doing something that doesn't match their attitude about themselves
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Daryl Bem's sef perception theory
People will look at their own behaviors and then form attitudes about themselves
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Leon Festinger and James Carlsmith
Conducted a test with a boring task and found that students payed less to lie experienced more cognitive dissonance, and where therefore more convinced that they weren't lying
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Impression formation
Forming the first attitude one person has about another
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Primacy effect
A first impression lasts
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Social catagorization
Assignment of a person to a particular category or group
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Stereotype
The belief that a set of characteristics is shared by all members of a social catagory
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Implicit personality theory
Sets of assumptions that people have about how different people, traits, and actions are related (happy people are also friendly people)
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Attribution
Explanation of the cause of behavior (nothing to do with accuracy)
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Attribution theory
Explains why people choose the particular explanations of behavior that they do
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Fritz Heider
Came up with the attribution theory
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Situational cause
Our behavior is caused by external factors
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Dispositional cause
Our behavior is caused by internal factors
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Fundamental attribution error (actor-observer bias)
We tend to explain our own behavior as situational and others' behavior as dispositional
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Saliency bias
Tendency to make assumptions based off of what is noticable, causing "insiders" to have more details
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Self-serving bias
You tend to take credit for the good things you do and externalize what goes poorly
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Prejudice
When a person holds an unsupported attitude about the members of a social group
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Discrimination
When prejudicial attitudes cause members of a social group to be treated certain ways
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Ethnocentricism
Belief that your culture is above all others
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In-group
A group you identify with
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Out-group
A group you don't identify with
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Scapegoat
Person/ group (frequently the out-group) who serves as a target for frustrations of the in-group
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Social cognitive theory
Prejudice is an attitude formed alongside other attitudes
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Realistic conflict theory
Prejudice is formed/strengthened when two groups are competing for reasources
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Social identity theory
Social catagorization, identification, and social comparison are the three processes responsible for the formation of a person's social identity
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Stereotype vulnerability
The effect a person's knowledge of another's stereotyped opinions of themselves has on their own behavior
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Self-fufilling prophecy of stereotypes
People feel pressure to behave in ways that support their stereotype
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Stereotype threat
Members of a stereotyped group are wary in any situation in which their behavior could confirm a stereotype
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Intergroup contact
When people with different backgrounds interact with each other
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Equal status contact
When neither group has power over the other (Belmont vs. Lexington)
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Jigsaw classroom
Students must work together to achieve a goal where each student is dependent on the rest, creating a collaborative environment
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In-group favoritism
Favoring the group you belong to
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Out-group homogeneity
Believing all members of groups you don't identify with are the same
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Just-world phenomenon
Tendency to believe that the world is a fair place, and therefore those who don't succeed are bad people who deserve their misfortune
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Aggression
When one person tries to hurt another deliberately
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Concept of aggression as a response to frustration
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Konrad Lorenz
Saw aggression as an instinct to promote individual safety (but this can't be true, since patterns of human aggression world wide are far too disimilar)
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Social learning theory for aggression
Theory that aggressive behavior is learned
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Craig Anderson
Found evidence of a positive correlation between exposure to violent video games and aggressive behavior
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Interpersonal attraction
Having the desire for a relationship with someone
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Things that impact attraction
PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS, proximity, similarity, and reciprocity
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Mere exposure effect
People like things more the more they are exposed to them
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Matching hypothesis
People of similar "levels" of attractiveness tend to pair up
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Sternberg's components of love
Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment
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Rubin's components of love
Intimacy, Caring, and Attachment
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Prosocial behavior
Behavior that is socially desirable and benefits others
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Altruism
Helping someone in danger without expecting a reward or guaranteed safety
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Bystander effect
The likelihood of a bystander to help someone decreases as the number of bystanders increases
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Bibb Latané and John Darley
Conducted experiments with smoke in a room to test the bystander effect
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Diffusion of responsibility
A person will take less responsibility for something if there are others around them sharing responsibility.
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Five decision points
Noticing, defining, taking responsibility, determining the course of action, and taking action

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