Test 1 review. The Beginnings Flashcards
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the scientific study of how people affect and are affected by others. Is concerned with the effect of other people on our thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Social Psychology
The 3 building blocks of Social Psychology are called the _______.
ABC Triad
What does the ABC triad stand for?
- The A stands for affect, how people feel inside; how they feel about themselves and others, and how they feel about various issues.
- The b stands for behavior, what people do; their actions. - - The C stands for cognition, what people think about.
Social Psychology became its own field in ______.
1970s and 80s
When social psychology became its own known in the 1950s, it was divided between 2 camps; _________ and _________.
behaviorism and Freudian psychoanalysis.
_______ sought to explain human behavior in terms of learning principles such as reward and punishment. They were opposed to talking about the mind, thoughts, emotions, or other inner processes, focusing instead on observable actions that could be studied experimentally using the scientific method.
Behaviorism
_________ preferred elaborate interpretations of individual experiences (especially from clinical practice) instead of experimental studies that counted behaviors.
Freudian Psychoanalysis
The earliest social psychological experiments were conducted in the late 1800s by researchers such as ______ and _______.
Max Ringelmann and Norman Triplett
The topic of these early studies was the presence of others on ____________.
individual performance
According to _________, the most central concept of social psychology was attitudes
Gordon Allport
According to ___________, behavior is a function of what two variables? Person and situation (environment)
Kurt Lewin’s Formula
Social Psych started between _____ and _____.
1908 and 1924
The father of social psychology. Was one of the first people to say that social psych should be relevant.
Kurt Lewin
The Kurt Lewin formula is _____.
B=F(P,E) Behavior is the Function of person and environment
______ and _______ both wrote books titled Social Psychology and around the same time. Other say ________ was the author of the first genuine Social Psychology book.
McDougall and Ross
Floyd Allport
______ published the first journal article. He was believed by many to be the person to conduct the first research and experiment in social psych.
Triplett.
Triplett’s journal article, which some believe to be the first written about social psychology, was on a full blown experiment regarding _______.
social facilitation
Some people believe that _______ should be credited for conducting the first research and experiment in social psych.
Ringlemann
Ringleman’s topic of study, which some credit to be the first research and experiment in social psych, was more of a class demonstration about __________.
social loafing
TRUE or FALSE
Hitler was one of the major forces in the field of Social Psych.
TRUE
_______ studied conformity and was influenced by Hitler.
Sherif
_____ said that if people conformed in one situation, you have evidence that this tendency was wide spread and should be concerned about.
Asch
_____ conducted the shock study. Under the right situations, you could get people to hurt somebody. Normal, everyday people, put under the right circumstances, will do what we think only crazy bad people would do.
Stanley Milgram
________ studied anti-Semitism and prejudice. What causes it? Wrote a major book called Prejudice. Was mainstream social psych reading for many years.
Gordon Allport
