Vocabulary - 1
in the presence of others, improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks, and worsened performance on difficult tasks.
Social facilitation
complying with an order or command
Obedience
Provide an example of aggression
Physical acts of violence and emotional acts such as cyberbullying do count as acts of aggression.
Social psychologists focus on what?
The power of the situation...and how the situation can affect a persons behavior.
any physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone physically or emotionally.
Aggression
adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Conformity
the tendency for repeated exposure to novel stimuli to increase our liking of them.
Mere exposure effect
Provide an example of a social script
Ex: the sequence of behaviors involved in being in the bridal party for a wedding. This script helps people understand and navigate the interaction smoothly based on shared cultural expectations.
Provide an example for the Halo effect
Celebrities are often used to endorse products because they have the halo effect: a belief that beautiful or famous people are trustworthy and smart.
the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
Social loafing
the act of revealing intimate aspects of ourselves to others.
Self-disclosure
a condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it.
Equity
There are three ingredients of our liking for another, what are they?
proximity, attractiveness, and similarity.
Provide an example of social facilitation
EX: professional athletes perform better with fans in the stadium than they do without fans in the stadium.
(What you already do well, you will do even better – what you don’t do well, you’ll do worse.)
the mimicking of behaviors we see around us, can increase prosocial and antisocial behaviors.
Social contagion
the enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within their group.
Group polarization
a culturally modeled guide on how to act in various situations.
Social script
Social contagion is also known as what...
The chameleon effect
What is the difference between social loafing and diffusion of responsibility?
Social loafing is when someone doesn't carry their own weight (project) because they know someone else will pick up the slack - diffusion of responsibility is when someone passes the responsibility on to someone else.
the principle that frustration – the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal – creates anger, which can generate aggression.
Frustration-aggression principle
the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
Deindividuation
the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
Group-think
(If someone goes along with the group (even if they disagree), simply to keep the peace within the group.)
Provide an example of social contagion
yawning, sneezing, laughing...
What is one key component of aggression?
Aggression must have intention to harm another person either physically or emotionally.
changing people’s attitudes, potentially influencing their actions.
Persuasion