Social Thinking
The scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another.
What is social psychology?
Going along with the group
What is conformity?
What is social facilitation?
Looking only at information that supports our stereotypes.
What is confirmation bias?
Helping behavior despite risk of harm to oneself.
What is altruism?
Attributing the cause of behavior to internal factors.
What is dispositional attribution?
Subjects in this study were told the research was about studying the effects of punishment on a learner.
What was Milgram's Obedience Experiments?
Making members of a group accountable for their individual contributions to a group effort counteracts this group behavior.
What is social loafing?
A negative attitude toward a group based on stereotypes.
What is prejudice?
A theory that states social behavior is a product of exchange motivated to maximize benefits and minimize costs.
What is social exchange theory?
The tendency when explaining others' behavior to overestimate dispositional factors and underestimate situational factors.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
When participants were asked to make visual judgments, 3 quarters of them gave an incorrect answer in this study.
What are Asch's Conformity Experiments?
The effect in a group when individuals become aroused, less aware, and feel anonymous.
What is deindividuation?
When people behave in ways to confirm their own or others' expectations.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
This explains the reduced likelihood to receive help the more people that are present when you are in need.
What is the bystander effect?
The more effective approach to persuasion in most circumstances.
What is the peripheral route?
The phenomenon that explains participant's willingness to administer shocks that were initially minor to eventually administering lethal shocks to the learner.
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
The use of the internet can contribute to amplifying this group tendency for both prosocial and antisocial causes.
What is group polarization?
Failing to promote an employee because of his/her gender.
What is discrimination?
The belief that giving help will increase your likelihood to receive help when in need.
What is the reciprocity norm?
The theory that explains why subjects who were only paid $1.00 claimed a boring task was more interesting than it was.
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
The presence of this reduced both rates of conformity and obedience in Asch's and Milgram's studies.
What is a model for defiance?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Challenger Disaster, and the Iraq War were thought to be influenced by this group behavior.
What is groupthink?
Cognitive schemas that organize information about people based on their membership in a certain group.
What are stereotypes?
Assigning responsibility to give aid to one of many bystanders.
What is how to counteract the bystander effect?