Conformity
Conducted the famous line study where subjects followed the Confederates answers.
Solomon Asch
People are less likely to provide needed help when in groups than when they are alone because of the...
What is bystander effect.
Following direct commands from someone of authority
obedience
a prevailing belief about a given topic
attitude
Inferences that people draw about events and other people
attributions
The Barnum effect in a group setting where one is willing to accept the others opinions about reality
What is informational Social Influence.
The reduction in effort when people work in groups is called the...
What is social loafing
He conducted the famous shock the participant for wrong answers study on obedience/
Who is Stanley Milgram
What are organized clusters of ideas about categories
What is a schema
belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get
What is the Just World Phenomenon?
Conformity is most likely to occur when the group is this size.
2
3-20
over 100
Between 3 and 20
When discussion strengthens a groups point of view and the group "digs" in their position,
What is group polarization
What percent (rough) of Subjects went all the way to the highest shock level
20%
40%
60%
63
Widely held beliefs that influence others ideas about social groups
What are stereotyes
Where people are in favor of internal attributions to explain others behavior
What is the fundamental attribution error
Normative social influence means that people obey in order to avoid
feeling like an outsider
When members come to a solution just when under a time constraint and fail to hear everyone's opinion
What is groupthink
One reason why subjects were so obedient
authority figure, lab coat, close by, depersonalized
Your class is to _______________ as all other classes are to ______________ (remember this is SOCIAL Psych)
What are Ingroups and Outgroups?
The tendency to blame a group of people for the worlds problems
scape goat theory
When you are in an ambiguous/confusing/difficult situation does conformity increase or decrease?
Conformity increases.
The girl who was murdered in New York and because of the bystander effect no one came to her rescue
Who is Kity Genovese.
More likely to obey? Collectivist culture or Individualist culture
Collectivist Culture
Liking your group more and conforming more readily to their ideas
What is ingroup bias?
When one accounts success to personal factors and failure to situational factors
What is self serving bias