Social Psych Basics & Attribution
This subfield of psychology studies how situations influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is social psychology?
These are shared expectations for how to behave in particular social positions.
What are social roles?
This occurs when people adjust their behavior to align with group norms.
What is conformity?
This is a negative feeling toward someone based on their group membership.
What is prejudice?
This error occurs when people overemphasize internal traits and ignore external causes of others' behavior.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
These guidelines tell us what behaviors are acceptable in a given group or society.
What are social norms?
This phenomenon happens when group harmony is prioritized over realistic decision-making.
What is groupthink?
This is the action that results from prejudiced attitudes.
What is discrimination?
These are explanations that attribute behavior to personal characteristics rather than situations.
What are dispositional explanations?
These provide step-by-step expectations for behavior in specific situations, like dining or dating.
What are social scripts?
This refers to reduced effort by individuals when working in a group where their output isn’t individually evaluated. For example, a group project without individual grades.
What is social loafing?
This form of aggression is goal-driven and not always motivated by anger.
What is instrumental aggression?
People from these types of cultures are less likely to commit the fundamental attribution error.
What are collectivistic cultures?
This famous experiment demonstrated the power of roles and situational influences on behavior.
What is the Stanford prison experiment?
A form of group conformity where the views of group members become more extreme over time because they are validated by other members.
Group polarization
This occurs when people are less likely to help in an emergency if others are present.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
This bias in explaining behavior helps maintain a person’s self-esteem.
What is self-serving bias?
When people follow roles and norms even against their usual behavior, it shows this influence.
What is the power of the situation?
"Mob mentality." A form of group conformity where individuals lose a sense of personal accountability.
Deindividuation
Sternberg's theory. Love has intimacy, passion, and commitment.
What is the Triangular Theory of Love?