12.1
What subfield of psychology focuses on how individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others?
What is social psychology?
Respecting other people’s personal space.
What is social norm?
Our evaluations(that may be positive or negative) towards people, objects, or ideas.
What is attitude?
This is the tendency to change your behavior to match the group, even without a direct request.
What is conformity?
This key area in social psychology examines how external factors like social context and group dynamics impact behavior.
What are situational influences?
A student attends classes, completes assignments, and participates in group projects.
What are social roles?
According to the Yale Attitude Change Approach, these types of messages tend to be more persuasive than direct ones.
What are subtle messages?
This type of social influence occurs when people conform because they want to be liked or accepted.
What is normative social influence?
What is attribution theory?
Greeting the teacher, finding your desk, participating in class, following classroom rules.
What are social scripts?
An athlete endorsing shoes in a fun commercial is an example of this persuasion route.
What is the peripheral route?
In the famous 1950s study involving lines, this researcher showed how group pressure can cause people to conform even when the group is wrong.
Who is Solomon Asch?
Which concept explains why people align their behaviors with group norms or authority figures, and is key in understanding conformity, compliance, and obedience?
What are conformity, compliance, and obedience?
this many many male college students were recruited and randomly assigned to the roles of prisoners and guards.
What is 24?
This technique involves starting with a small request and then following up with a larger one, capitalizing on behavioral consistency.
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
When someone changes their behavior because of a direct request, even without an authority figure, it is called this.
What is compliance?
This area of social psychology studies the origins and effects of biased attitudes and behaviors toward others.
What are prejudice and discrimination?
who lead the experiment
Who is Phillip Zimbardo?
This persuasion route, requiring a high level of effort and analytical engagement from the audience, uses logic, facts, and strong arguments to achieve a durable attitude change. It is most effective when the audience is motivated and able to critically process information.
What is the central route?
In the Milgram experiment, participants showed obedience by doing this, even though it caused them discomfort.
What is delivering what they thought were painful electric shocks?