Social Psych Interpersonal Attraction
Who is most likely to develop a relationship?
a. Amy and Paul who are neighbors
b. Sarah and Keegan who are the same age but live in different states
c. Julie (who for matching purposes is a 9) and Alexa (who is a 5)
Amy and Paul- because proximity/mere exposure
Jason thinks it's horrendous when Kelsey texts and drives, but when he does it it's because he needs to see if his grandma messaged him. This is an example of:
the actor-observer effect.
Sam and Carson are competing in a cooking show. Normally, Carson is very adept at making food, but on the show he lets Sam make both the main dish and the dessert. This is an example of _______.
Social loafing
The DSM-5 is best used for this purpose.
CLASSIFYING disorders
What is a token economy?
a system of using tokens and points for reward to teach positive behavior
- shape behavior by rewarding target behaviors with token so they can get something with it
What did the brown eye/blue eye study teach us?
prejudice/discrimination are learned terms
Katrina asking to borrow a pen, then a stapler, then to keep a notebook is an example of what concept?
foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Differentiate between prejudice and discrimination.
Prejudice are the negative FEELINGS
discrimination includes the negative BEHAVIORS/actions
Jerry has been feeling blue for the past couple of weeks and always feels tired but can never fall asleep. He is likely suffering from _______.
Major depressive disorder (MDD)
ECT is used when ________
there are cases of depression/bipolar disorder that are not treatable by other methods
Define and give an example of stereotype threat.
The fear that someone might conform to a negative stereotype (about their social group) which impairs their performance. For example, women being bad at math tests after being reminded of their gender. Because the anxiety about doing bad makes them do bad.
Name the three basic motivations to influence others and explain each means
- hedonic: we prefer pleasure over pain
- approval: we want others to like us
- accuracy: we want to be right
Hannah is usually a quiet person, but she decides to attend the 2026 World Cup and ends up spray painting a random car. This is an example of _______.
Deindividuation
Differentiate between obsessions and compulsions. Given an example of each.
obsessions are the intrusive thoughts and compulsions are the repetitive behaviors used to alleviate the anxiety caused by the anxiety
Differentiate between hallucinations and delusions.
hallucinations are the sensory experiences (that can sometimes contribute to delusions)
delusions are the rigid beliefs about something
Explain the concept of a base rate fallacy.
ignoring statistics and focusing instead on specific, vivid details leading to misjudgments
- either you don't know the stats or choose to ignore them
- ie. farmers vs salespeople in a town-- you'd a quiet person would be a librarian, but what if there's more farmers statistically speaking
Differentiate between heuristic persuasion and systematic persuasion. Give an example of each.
heuristic persuasion is using vivid imagery to influence others. (mores a shortcut)
systematic persuasion is using logic to do so (deep analysis of content and evidence)
Alan is running late for a meeting and is getting annoyed, he starts yelling at the other cars to move faster. What intermediate feeling causes him to start yelling, and what is this concept called?
he gets frustrated, feels bad, which leads to his aggression and yelling
- frustration aggression principle
Explain the racial and gender differences in suicide.
white people are more likely to commit suicide than other ethnic/racial groups (aside from Native Americans)
men complete suicide but women attempt it more often
We watched a video in lecture about a lady who is deathly afraid of clowns. She starts by looking at pictures of clowns that get more realistic/scary until she can finally face one in person. Name and define the type of technique that is being used.
systematic desensitization-- building a hierarchy of how much each thing makes you panic and working your way up to the top gradually while pairing with relaxation
Explain how stereotypes can be under and overestimated using an example (ie. overestimating differences BETWEEN in vs out groups and underestimating differences WITHIN groups)
For example, people think that moderate democrats and moderate republicans are vastly different from one another when there are people WITHN each group that are more different than two people in different groups. underestimating between group (lack of difference) and overestimating difference within
Describe Milgram's obedience study. Summarize the experiment and results. List at least one way to increase obedience and two ways to decrease obedience in this study.
The participant would shock the researcher severely if told to do so by a person of authority
Increase obedience by having the victim not say anything OR just having the ppt read the clues
Decrease obedience by decreasing prestige, having another person refuse, authority move farther away, learner moves closer
Explain the Sherif Robber's Cave study. What happened in it and what were the results. ie. What helped end prejudice?
There were two groups and once they were pitted against each other they started creating in-group/outgroup biases and prejudices towards the other groups. Having the kids work towards superordinate goals that required them to work together helped reduce the prejudice
Differentiate between the three central perspectives (medical model, biopsychosocial, diathesis stress)
medical model primarily used for abnormal biological functioning as cause of illness (genetics and NTs)
biopsychosocial model primarily used to integrate biology, psychology, and social factors
stress diathesis means that to get a disorder you need to activate the genetic predisposition from stressors in your environment
Sarah, a manager, avoids promotions and social events due to anxiety and fear of judgment.
Apply the four different therapy types (humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalysis) to this scenario.