Conformity
Conducted the famous conformity experiment
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 comands from someone of authority
obedience
a prevailing belief about a given topic
attitude
Inferences that people draw about events and other people
attributions
Where Jim Jones had his followers committ mass suicide.
Where is Jonestown
The reduction in effort when people work in groups is called the...
What is social loafing
Who conducted the famous obedience experiment
Stanley Milgram
What are organized clusters of ideas about categories
What is a schema
What is the difference between internal attributions and external attributions?
Internal attribuions are affected by personal dispostions and traits while external attributions focus on situational demands and environmental factors
Conformity is most likely to occur when the group is this size.
Between 3 and 20
When discussion strengthens a groups point of view,
What is group polarization
What percent (rough) of Subjects went all the way to the highest shock level
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
What is the difference between ingroups and outgroups?
Ingroups are goups that you identify with while outgroups are all other groups
The tendancy to blame a group of people for the worlds problems
scape goat theory
When you are in an ambiguous/confusin 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.
Who is more likely to obey? Someone from a Collectivist culture or Individualist culture?
Collectivist Culture
True or False? Physical attactiveness influences perception of others?
True
When one accounts success to personal factors and failure to situational factos
What is self serving bias