Friendships and Romantic Relationships
What is proximity?
Functional Distance
-Do you cross paths with someone?
What is an implicit bias?
It's an unexamined and sometimes unconscious bias with real consequences.
What is scarcity?
The degree to which something is limited or may become unavailable.
How can we increase helping behavior?
Calling out to individuals themselves makes it more likely that you will receive help. Personalizing it makes the person feel more responsible to react.
What is the bystander effect?
When you don't help because you assume someone else already has or will.
Why is similarity important in social psychology?
We are attracted to it.
What is a stereotype threat?
It's a stereotype that can non consciously impact a stigmatized persons behavior or performance.
What is foot in the door?
An initial difficult to refuse small request that leads to larger requests that were the goal from the start.
What factors led to intergroup conflict in the Robbers Cave experiment?
Ingroup identification and outgroup derogation. We accentuate ingroup similarity and we outgroup differences.
When do people join cults?
People typically join cults during a transitional phase.
What does novelty mean in relationships?
The people in the relationship do new things together.
Why does stereotype threat occur?
It occurs because people fear they will embody the negative stereotype or fear they will not embody a stereotype that others of an outgroup place on them.
What is the Central Route of Persuasion?
It relies on direct features of the argument to persuade. It's factual, content heavy, relevant and logical.
Name an environmental cue of belonging.
Discrimination in STEM classes and groups
What is the chameleon effect?
The subconscious tendency to mimic the behavior, facial expressions, postures, and speech of those around us.
What is misattribution of arousal?
It's when people make a mistake in assuming what is causing them to feel aroused.
What is a jigsaw classroom?
A jigsaw classroom is one in which people in the classroom are divided into diverse groups and everyone in the classroom is an expert in a specific area of the lesson, creating equal status, shared goals, community support and one on one communication.
Explain the Peripheral Route of Persuasion?
It relies on features that are superficial of the argument, attractiveness, fame, authority bandwagon (currently popular, everyone's jumping on board!)
How can physical objects in the environment increase belonging?
By connecting us with nature and fostering our belonging to the natural world.
What is the IAT?
Implicit Association Test
What is the Mere exposure effect?
It's when we develop preferences for things we see frequently.
What are 3 of the 5 conditions in which contact is successful at reducing prejudices in groups?
1. Positive Experiences
2. Equal Status Groups
3. Superordinate Goal/Threat
4. Community Support
5. One on One Contact
Give a situation in which you would use Central and Peripheral Routes of Persuasion.
Central: Political Campaigns, Product Demo, High-Cost Item.
Peripheral: Advertisement for things that would come up on social media or on a commercial on tv. Ex. cosmetics, clothing, shoes.
When making the decision to help, what things might be considered?
The feeling of competence or control, social rewards, avoiding guilt, the potential costs of helping.
What are the 3 mechanisms for overcoming conflict?
1. Provide contradictory information
2. Provide new information through experience
3. Train new skills