Studies
Vocabulary
Theories
Methods
Learning Principles
100
This experiment tested the effectiveness of the door in the face technique.
What is Cialdini (1975)?
100
The level of which something in the environment can catch and retain one's attention.
What is Salience?
100
The three method processes of Social Identity Theory.
What is categorization, identification, comparison?
100
A method in which an independent variable is manipulated and the dependent variable is measured.
What is an Experiment?
100
Theory that supports the learning principle that we construct our conceptions of the individual and social self
What is Social Identity theory?
200
The independent variables of the Bandura study.
What are gender of the model, gender of the child, whether or not the child was exposed to violence.
200
The influence resulting in the desire to gain approval and avoid disapproval.
What is the social desirability effect?
200
The theory that we behave the way we do because we've learned it in a social situation.
What is the social learning theory?
200
Used in the Rogers and Frantz study to measure two variables without finding a cause and effect.
What is a correlational study?
200
A study on social identity theory done in 1970, supporting the learning principle that humans are social animals with an innate need to belong
What is Tajfel (1970)?
300
Asch, Abrams, and Berry all studied this social influence.
What is conformity?
300
The 3 different types of conformity
What are compliance, identification, and internalization?
300
The theory that we determine our own social and personal worth based on how we stack up against others.
What is the Social comparison theory?
300
Researchers participating in the lives and activities of the group and looking at the behaviors of the group's members in their natural environment.
What is observation?
300
An infamous study done at Stanford university, supporting the learning principle that our behavior is affected by others, even when we believe we are acting independently.
What is Zimbardo’s Prison Study?
400
The brain structure in the Harris and Fiske study which was not activated when university students looked at pictures of homeless people.
What is the medial prefrontal cortex?
400
Culture, group thinking, the size of the majority, ambiguous tasks, unambiguous tasks, and majority influence, all effect this social influence.
What are the factors that influence conformity?
400
The theory that explains the ways in which people explain the behavior of others and/or themselves.
What is Attribution theory?
400
An experiment carried out in real life situations, consequently resulting in the study having high ecological validity.
What is a field experiment?
400
The learning principle demonstrated in Sherif et al (1954)
What is the learning principle that humans are social animals with an innate need to belong?
500
A study that looked at whether the cultural dimension of individual VS collectivism would have an effect on the likelihood of compliance with a request to carry out an online survey.
What is Petrova et al?
500
The phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.
What is the bystander effect?
500
An unpleasant state of physiological tension that occurs when two thoughts or perceptions are inconsistent, which typically results from the awareness that attitude and behavior are in conflict.
What is Cognitive dissonance?
500
Researchers use this when they use multiple methods to look at the same event or behavior.
What is method triangulation?
500
Learning principle supported by Berry (1967)
What is the learning principle that culture influences behaviour?
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