Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions
True or False:
Social psychology is the study of how we think, influence, and relate to each other
What is true?
True or False:
Behaviors are contagious
True or False:
According to social facilitation your performance in tricky tasks with improve with people watching
What is false
True or False:
If one twin is violent, the other is likely to be violent too
What is true?
True or False:
You are more likely to help if there are others are present
False
Is fundamental attribution error to overestimate personal disposition or situational disposition?
What is personal disposition?
What is conformity?
Adjusting behavior/thinking to coincide with group standard
What's the difference between prejudice and discrimination?
Prejudice is an attitude and discrimination is an action.
What is the mere exposure effect?
A phenomenon where repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases likeability of stimuli.
What is social trap?
What is peripheral route persuasion ?
Obedience is highest when
Authority is close
Prestigious situation
Victim is depersonalized
List two ways to prevent groupthink
Invite expert critique
Assign people to identify possible problems
What is the gene linked to aggression?
MAOA gene
Monoamine oxidase A
America believes itself to be the best and China to be the worst. China believes itself to be the best and America to be the worst. This is because of
Mirror-image perception
What is attribution theory?
What is attributing behavior to a person's stable enduring traits?
Who is Stanley Milgram?
Studied authority figures and obedience. Did an experiment where he had people shock with increasing voltage if students answered a question wrong.
Name four groups of people likely to be anti-gay
men
older adults
unhappy
unemployed
less educated
What is the two-factor theory?
Arousal from any source can enhance other emotions.
Is the relationship between happiness and helpfulness inverse or direct?
Direct
Explain poverty or unemployment from a conservative viewpoint.
They would blame it on a personal disposition like being lazy, a free loader, or saying they deserve it.
What is a rotten situation?
What is a situation where people either emerge as a bad person or hero?
What happens to form a terrorist mentality
group polarization
happens slowly among people with shared grievance
isolation + "us" against "them"
Three factors of attraction are
Attractiveness
Similarity
What does GRIT stand for?
Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension reduction