Social Psychology
The study of how individuals behave when in groups.
What is Social Psychology?
A widely held idea or assumption about a particular category of people.
What is a stereotype.
A weightlifter is likely to perform better when they have family and/or friends present.
What is social facilitation?
This person is said to bring toys to good girls and boys.
Who is Santa Clause?
Researchers have found we will only help if we notice the incident, interpret it as an emergency and ________________________.
What is, we assume responsibility for helping?
Altering our own behavior to match the group's.
What is conformity?
Unjust treatment of a category of people, based on their being members of a particular group.
What is discrimination?
Actions influence attitudes and __________________________.
What is attitudes influence actions.
What was Stanley Milgrim trying to learn about with his "shock machine" experiment?
What is Obedience?
Altruism
What is the unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
Change our attitude or change our behavior.
How to reduce cognitive dissonance.
An unjustified, irrational and unfair attitude toward members of a particular group.
What is prejudice?
The tendency to put out less effort when working as part of a group.
What is social loafing.
Psychologist who ran the Stanford Prison Experiment
What is Philip Zimbardo?
When more people are present, one feels less responsibility to help.
What is the bystander effect?
The tendency, when analyzing someone else's behavior, to blame their personal disposition rather than trying to understand their situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The just world phenomenon.
What is the belief that good is rewarded and evil is punished.
You don't belong to this group.
What is an outgroup?
Someone who does not contribute their full effort when working in a group.
Who is a social loafer?
Supposedly, 37 people witnessed her murder and didn't call the police.
Who is Kitty Genovese?
Cognitive Dissonance
What is the sense of tension caused when our attitudes and actions don't match?
The phenomenon that faces of people in our own race are easier to recognize/differentiate that are the faces of those in another racial group.
What is the other-race effect.
When in a crowd and feeling anonymous, someone might do things that they might not do if they were alone, due to this phenomenon,
What is deindividuation?
Psychologist who studied conformity
What is Solomon Asch?
Being in a good mood. Having observed someone else being helpful. Being focused on others. Having time.
What are factors that increase the odds of helping behavior?