Consist of 2 or more individuals who influence each other.
e.g., Family, sports teams, clubs, gender, ect.
What is a group?
100
Any behavior that is intended to harm another person who does not want to be harmed.
What is Aggression?
100
Observing and copying the behavior of others.
What is Modeling?
100
People are less likely to help (and take longer to help) the more people are present.
What is Bystander Effect?
100
A phenomenon in which people are less likely to take action when in the presence of a large group of people.
What is Diffusion of Responsibility?
200
People reduce effort when working in a group compared to working alone.
What is Social Loafing?
200
Increase in aggression due to the mere presence of a weapon.
What is Weapons Effect?
200
Decreased sensitivity to violence and less reactivity to real-life violence.
What is Numbing?
200
A collective misinterpretation.
What is Pluralistic Ignorance?
200
Any behavior that violates a traffic law or that involves anger expressions that result in hostility from another motorist.
e.g., Speeding, Honking Horn, Following too close to another car.
What is Driver Aggression?
300
The tendency to perform better in the presence of others than when alone.
What is Social Facilitation?
300
Aggression with the goal of extreme harm.
e.g., injury or death
What is Violence?
300
Mental tapes for how to act that we learn implicitly from our culture.
e.g., shopping at the grocery store or attending church
What are Social Scripts?
300
These are shown to increase helping behavior in children.
What prosocial TV shows and video games?
300
How well we can do something.
e.g., Simple, well learned= Social Facilitation
Complex, not well learned= Social Inhibition
What is Dominant Response?
400
The tendency to perform worse in the presence of others.
What is Social Inhibition?
400
A means to some other goal other than causing pain.
e.g., murder for hire, soldiers fighting a war
What is Instrumental Aggression?
400
The idea that performing or watching aggressive behavior supposedly reduces the urge to aggress.
e.g., Bushman (2002) Punching Bag Experiment
What is Catharsis?
400
When working in the presence of others, our concern over what they think will enhance or impair our performance.
What is Evaluation Apprehension?
400
The process of faulty decision making that can occur in groups.
Most likely to occur when:
- A group is under stress, has a strong leader, highly cohesive, and isolated from contrary opinions.
What is Group Think?
500
The loss of self-awareness and of individual accountability in a group.
What is Deindividuation?
500
Name the following forms of aggression:
Sarah is gossiping to one of her friends about a new girl in school she doesn't like. She begins to spread rumors about the new girl.
What is Indirect Verbal Aggression?
500
Changing thoughts about victims to resolve dissonance (dehumanization).
What is Justifying Aggression?
500
The five steps to helping behavior:
What is:
1. Notice something is happening
2. Interpret event as an emergency
3. Take responsibility for providing help
4. Know how to help
5. Provide help
500
Occurs as group discussion shifts toward an extreme position.