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GEN PSYCH CHAPTER 12
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the scientific study of how a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others. | Social psychology |
| the process through which the real or implied presence of others can directly or indirectly influence the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of an individual. | Social influence |
| changing one’s own behavior to match that of other people. | Conformity |
| kind of thinking that occurs when people place more importance on maintaining group cohesiveness than on assessing the facts of the problem with which the group is concerned. | Groupthink |
| branch of psychology that studies the habits of consumers in the marketplace, including compliance. | Consumer psychology |
| changing one’s behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change. | Compliance |
| Four Ways to Gain Compliance | Foot-in-the-door technique, Door-in-the-face technique, Lowball technique, and That’s-not-all technique |
| asking for a small commitment and, after gaining compliance, asking for a bigger commitment. | Foot-in-the-door technique |
| asking for a large commitment and being refused, and then asking for a smaller commitment. | Door-in-the-face technique |
| assumption that if someone does something for a person, that person should do something for the other in return. | Norm of reciprocity |
| getting a commitment from a person and then raising the cost of that commitment. | Lowball technique |
| a sales technique in which the persuader makes an offer and then adds something extra to make the offer look better before the target person can make a decision. | That’s-not-all technique |
| changing one’s behavior at the command of an authority figure. | Obedience |
| "teacher" administered what they thought were real shocks to a "learner." | Milgram study |
| is the tendency for members involved in a group discussion to take somewhat more extreme positions and suggest riskier actions when compared to individuals who have not participated in a group discussion | Group polarization |
| the tendency for the presence of other people to have a positive impact on the performance of an easy task. | Social facilitation |
| the tendency for people to put less effort into a simple task when working with others on that task. | Social loafing |
| a tendency to respond positively or negatively toward a certain person, object, idea, or situation. | Attitude |
| The three components of an attitude are | the affective (emotional) component, the behavioral component, and the cognitive component. |
| Attitudes are often poor predictors of behavior unless the attitude is very specific or very strong. | |
| Formation of Attitudes | Direct contact with the person, situation, object, or idea. |
| Direct instruction from parents or others. | |
| Interacting with other people who hold a certain attitude. | |
| Vicarious conditioning - watching the actions and reactions of others to ideas, people, objects, and situations. | |
| Persuasion | the process by which one person tries to change the belief, opinion, position, or course of action of another person through argument, pleading, or explanation. |
| Key elements in persuasion | the source of the message, the message itself, and the target audience. |
| Model of persuasion stating that people will either elaborate on the persuasive message or fail to elaborate on it, and that the future actions of those who do elaborate are more predictable than those who do not. | Elaboration likelihood model |
| type of information processing that involves attending to the content of the message itself. | Central-route processing |
| type of information processing that involves attending to factors not involved in the message, such as the appearance of the source of the message, the length of the message, and other non content factors. | Peripheral-route processing |
| sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person’s behavior does not correspond to that person’s impression formation the forming of the first knowledge that a person has concerning another person. | Cognitive dissonance |
| Lessened by changing the conflicting behavior, changing the conflicting attitude, or forming a new attitude to justify the behavior. | Cognitive dissonance |
| the mental processes that people use to make sense of the social world around them. | Social cognition |
| forming of the first knowledge a person has about another person. | Impression formation |
| the very first impression one has about a person tends to persist even in the face of evidence to the contrary. | Primacy effect |
| the assignment of a person one has just met to a category based on characteristics the new person has in common with other people with whom one has had experience in the past. | Social categorization |
| a set of characteristics that people believe is shared by all members of a particular social category. | Stereotype |
| sets of assumptions about how different types of people, personality traits, and actions are related to each other. | Implicit personality theory |
| mental patterns that represent what a person believes about certain types of people. Schemas can become stereotypes. | Schemas |
| the process of explaining one’s own behavior and the behavior of others. | Attribution |
| the theory of how people make attributions. | Attribution theory |
| cause of behavior attributed to external factors, such as delays, the action of others, or some other aspect of the situation. | Situational cause |
| cause of behavior attributed to internal factors such as personality or character. | Dispositional cause |
| the tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors in determining behavior while underestimating situational factors. | Fundamental attribution error (actor-observer bias) |
| negative attitude held by a person about the members of a particular social group. | Prejudice |
| treating people differently because of prejudice toward the social group to which they belong. | Discrimination |
| Forms of prejudice include | ageism, sexism, racism, and prejudice toward those who are too fat or too thin. |
| social groups with whom a person identifies; "us." | In-groups |
| social groups with whom a person does not identify; "they." | Out-groups |
| conflict between groups increases prejudice and discrimination. | Realistic conflict theory |
| tendency to direct prejudice and discrimination at out-group members who have little social power or influence. | Scapegoating |
| views prejudice as an attitude acquired through direct instruction, modeling, and other social influences. | Social cognitive theory |
| theory in which the formation of a person’s identity within a particular social group is explained by social categorization, social identity, and social comparison. | Social identity theory |
| the part of the self-concept including one’s view of self as a member of a particular social category. | Social identity |
| the comparison of oneself to others in ways that raise one’s self-esteem. | Social comparison |
| the effect that people’s awareness of the stereotypes associated with their social group has on their behavior. | Stereotype vulnerability |
| the tendency of one’s expectations to affect one’s behavior in such a way as to make the expectation more likely to occur. | Self-fulfilling prophecy |
| contact between groups in which the groups have equal status, with neither group having power over the other. | Equal status contact |
| educational technique in which each individual is given only part of the information needed to solve a problem, causing the separate individuals to be forced to work together to find the solution. | "Jigsaw classroom" |
| liking or having the desire for a relationship with another person. | Interpersonal attraction |
| physical or geographical nearness. | Proximity |
| People like people who are similar to themselves OR who are different from themselves (complementary). | Proximity |
| tendency of people to like other people who like them in return. | Reciprocity of liking |
| a strong affection for another person due to kinship, personal ties, sexual attraction, admiration, or common interests. | Love |
| Sternberg states that the three components of love are | intimacy, passion, and commitment |
| type of love consisting of intimacy and passion. | Romantic love |
| type of love consisting of intimacy and commitment. | Companionate love |
| behavior intended to hurt or destroy another person. | Aggression |
| Biological influences on aggression may include | genetics, the amygdala and limbic system, and testosterone and serotonin levels. |
| the pattern of behavior that is expected of a person who is in a particular social position. | Social role |
| Violent TV, movies, and videos are related to | aggression |
| socially desirable behavior that benefits others. | Prosocial behavior |
| prosocial behavior that is done with no expectation of reward and may involve the risk of harm to oneself. | Altruism |
| referring to the effect that the presence of other people has on the decision to help or not help, with help becoming less likely as the number of bystanders increases. | Bystander effect |
| occurring when a person fails to take responsibility for actions or for inaction because of the presence of other people who are seen to share the responsibility. | Diffusion of responsibility |
| Researchers that found people who were alone were more likely to help in an emergency than people who were with others. | Latané and Darley |
| cannot diffuse responsibility | bystander |
| Five Steps in Making a Decision to Help | – Noticing – Defining an emergency – Taking responsibility – Planning a course of action – Taking action |
| Cults | People who join cults tend to be under stress, unhappy, unassertive, gullible, dependent, want to belong, and idealistic. |
| Cults | Young people are likelier to join cults than are older people. |
| Cults | Cults use love-bombing, isolation, rituals, and activities to keep the new recruits from questions and critical thinking. |
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