Topic 1: Social Psychology
This type of socialisation occurs from media, school and peers
Secondary socialisation
Bystander Intervention Model
Consciously help attitudes
explicit
Concept refers to shared values, beliefs, behaviours and traditions of a group of people
Culture
Researcher who conducted a study showing how ordinary people obey authority figures even when harming others
Milgram
The three perspectives that explain gender role formation through observation and modelling, through internal thought process, or biological differences
Cognitive theories
Biological
These 2 principles explain why we help others: returning favours and moral obligation
Reciprocity principle and social responsibility
The tension that people feel when their actions do not align with their beliefs
cognitive dissonance
The process involved in adjusting to a new culture and may include stages like assimilation or integration
Acculturation
Psychologist that used line-length comparisons to explore conformity
Asch
The three levels in order of group influence
Compliance, identification, internalisation
An personal factor that could influence prosocial behaviour
empathy, mood, competence and altruism
Theory that explains group behaviour through categorisation, identification and comparison
Social identity theory
Four components that contribute to sense of community
Membership, influence, integration and fulfilment of needs, shared emotional connection
This is an ethical consideration of Milgram’s experiment
Right withdraw, informed consent, emotionally harmful to participants
1973 experiment and the authors demonstrated how status and power can influence behaviour in simulated prison roles
Stanford Prison Experiment (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo)
This model explains aggression resulting him the interaction of personal, situation and biological variables
General aggression model
The error when people overestimate personal factors and underestimate situational ones when explaining others’ behaviour
Fundamental Attribution Error
This distinction separates societies that celebrate diversity from those that maintain separate cultural identities under one system.
Multiculturialism and pluralism
Explored the biological basis of attraction across cultures and their general findings
Buss et al. — common factors across cultures and what they found attractive
The researcher that identified social norms that can shape confidently and obedience including descriptive and injunctive norms
These factors may influence anti-social behaviour
diffusion of responsibility, audience inhibition, and cost-benefit analysis
These researchers demonstrated how stereotypes can uncomfortably influence behaviour
Bargh et al - stereotype priming
The 5 prejudice-reduction strategies of the contact hypothesis
Intergroup contact, sustained contact, superordinate goals, mutual interdependence, and equality/equal group status
The 5 stages of Rollie & Duck’s relationship dissolution model
Intrapsychic, dyadic, social, grave-dressing, resurrection