Weeks 5-7 - Social Psychology Flashcards
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Characteristics that are attributed to people based on their membership of specific groups
Stereotypes
Involves judging people based on stereotypes which can be either positive or negative
Prejudice
Psychological test used to understand personal biases
Implicit associations test
Elicited by anger, a person lashes out, impulsive aggression
Hostile aggression
Children watched a video of a women acting violent towards a Bobo doll, and then children mimicked this behaviour. Shows how aggression can be modelled.
Bandura’s experiment
Emotional, intense feeling, physiological arousal.
Passionate love
An element of attraction where people gain rewards from a relationship (e.g. tangible rewards such as money, or intangible such as self-esteem)
Interpersonal rewards
An element of attraction where being near someone regularly increases likeness (unless initially having a strong aversion to the person).
Proximity
Three parts of the self
Public self (Interpersonal self)
Self-concept (Self-knowledge)
Executive Functioning (Agent self)
The strategy where people attempt to control what impressions others form of them
Self-presentation
A process where people set themselves up to fail when success is uncertain in an attempt to maintain their self-esteem
Self-handicapping
Refers to the way most people respond. If all students in Psychology 1B don’t enjoy one of the activities this could be attributed to the situation (the activity)
Consensus
People typically see themselves in a more positive way than others see them
Self-serving bias
An association between an act or object and an evaluation
Attitude
An aspect of persuasion that refers to the person giving the message. People tend to be more persuasive when they are credible, attractive, likeable and powerful.
Source
A route of persuasion that involves the person receiving the message to think carefully and weigh up the arguments in the message
Central route
__________ refers to behaviours people perform that have no apparent gain to themselves.
Altruism
Theory that natural selection favors animals that behave in an altruistic way if the likely benefit to each individual exceeds the likely cost over time
Reciprocal altruism
Also known as the electric shock experiment, where participants thought they were giving an electric shock to people when they got an answer wrong. This experiment relates to Obedience.
The Milgram Experiment
A study that highlighted conformity, as participants would say the wrong answer if all other members of the group said the wrong answer
Asch Study
Also known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. A mock prison was developed to investigate conformity, obedience, and roles.
Zimbardo Experiment
_________________ is when people feel less responsible to act because others have an equal responsibility to act.
Diffusion of Responsibility
A technique of social influence where you start with a bigger request expecting it to be denied and then move to a smaller request. For example, a teenager wants to stay out until midnight, they ask their dad if they can stay out until 2pm and he says no. Then ask if they can stay until midnight and he says yes.
Door-in-the-face technique
A technique of social influence where something is broken up into smaller elements to make it look more favorable. For example, Afterpay where you can purchase a pair of shoes for just $10 per week for 10 weeks, which sounds better than $100
Legitimization-of-paltry-favors technique