Week 1-Social Nature Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is Allport’s definition of Social Psychology?
Understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.
Define Social Perception
Attitudes and attributes to other people
Define Social Presentation
Impacted by group identities
Define Social Influence
Conformity-minority affecting majority
Define Intergroup Relation
Facilitate/Undermine relation
Group Decision Making-Attitude and Behaviour Change-Persuasion
What is the interpersonal attraction?
Why are we attracted to certain people…
Who is said to be the ‘father’ of experimental Social Psychology?
Kurt Lewin
At what point in the history of Social Psychology was there a turn towards studying cognition
In the 70s
Which are of the following are essential to conducting ethical laboratory experiments?
Ensuring the physical welfare of participants, Obtaining informed consent, Debriefing participants
What was the first Social Psychology experiment?
Triplett-Social Facilitation- Cycle faster in front of people social influence
What is the Process-Oriented Approach?
To find causation using what, when and why
Morning morality effect
What is the levels of analysis (Types of theories) in Social Psychology?
1) Individual Explanation- Traits e.g. high in empathy
2) Immediate Social Context-Aware of Social Norms
3) Wider/Broader Social Beliefs- Collectivist vs Individualist societies and cultural beliefs
History and Origins of Social Psychology
Comte- Psychology is a science
LeBon-Crowd behaviour
McDougall- Understanding biological basis of social psychology
Ross-Interested in conformity and social influence
Thurstone-Attitudes can be measured
LaPierre-Attitudes vs Action
Sherif-Autokinetic effect changed answers based on what others say. Social factors in perception
What did Kurt Lewin say about the behaviour and what were his research findings?
Behaviour is a function of the person, the environment and the interaction between the two.
B=f(P,E) (Function of environment &Person)
Situation and Environment are important for shaping behaviour.
What important societal beliefs impacted researchers?
Asch: Conformity and Person Perception
Milgram: Obedience
Festinger: Cognitive Dissonance Theory and Social Comparison Theory
Heider: Balance Theory and Attribution Theory
What are the different Social Psychological Research Methods?
Lab Experiments-IV/DV
Field Experiments- Cues in environment impacted behaviour
Archival Research- Finds trends through archibes e.g. trends in twitters
Case Studies
Qualitative Research
Discourse Analysis- Conversations between people
Survey Research-Correlation between variables, manipulate certain things
Field Studies-Observed in natural settings
Growth and Integration in 1960s
Stereotyping and Prejudice- School desegregation
Aggression-Weapons effects (seeing a weapon makes u more aggressive)
Altruism- Bystander Intervention- Kitty Genoveve assuming someone else will help. Diffusion of responsibility
Interpersonal relations-attraction
1970s-Age of Cognition
Naive Scientists-Attribution Models- why we have biases in our attributions
The cognitive Miser-Schemas-(cognitive structures and mental frameworks of the world)-Heuristics- A statistic can change in behaviour
The Motivated Tactician-Accuracy motivation to be correct
European Social Psychology
Europeans believed the US was more reductionist (don’t consider everything different functions and factors influencing)
Focussed on micro explanations
