Social Psychology
The type of socialisation that occurs during the early stages of life and typically comes from parents and close family.
What is Primary Socialisation?
Helping others with no thought of a reward.
What is Altruism?
An unpleasant feeling of psychological tension that comes when we perceive our attitude as being inconsistent with our behaviour.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
This can be defined as feeling a sense of belonging to a group or society.
What is Membership?
This type of racism is overt, blatant and intentional.
What is Explicit Racism?
This is the first process in social influence theory.
What is Compliance?
The presence of others leads the bystander to feel less responsible for helping the person in need.
What is Diffusion of Responsibility?
This stage of Social Identity theory is where we sort people and objects to where we are able to understand them and identify them.
What is Social Categorisation?
This type of culture occurs when the individuals (or at least most individuals within that culture) act in a way that primarily benefits themselves.
What is Individualism?
A theory that suggests that people who are more physically attractive are assumed to have additional positive traits.
What is the Halo Effect?
This theory of gender role formation states that chromosomes decide gender.
What is the Psychosocial Theory?
This model is a comprehensive, integrative, framework for understanding aggression.
What is the General Aggression Model (GAM)?
A tendency to view ourselves more favourably than others in the same position.
What is Self-serving Bias?
Where individuals from many cultures coexist and live by one set of rules for all.
What is Multiculturalism?
A major form of aggression that is common on social media.
What is Cyberbullying?
This person tested to see if people would steal petrified wood when they either saw an injunctive norm sign or a descriptive norm sign.
Who is Robert Cialdini?
This is the final stage of Duck's Model of Dissolution.
What is the Resurrection Phase?
Direct encounters with a person, object or idea can influence the formation of an attitude.
What is a Direct Experience?
When the cultural markers of an immigrant culture are sustained when a person has moved.
What is Acculturation?
This theory attempts to explain human behaviour on the basis that it gives humans a survival advantage.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
The aim of Asch’s experiment was to investigate this particular phenomena.
What is Conformity?
The three social and cognitive origins of attraction.
What is Similarity, Proximity and Reciprocity?
These people used correlational research design to investigate the relationship between stereotypes and behaviour.
Who are Bargh, Chen and Burrows?
Increasing exposure to a particular group can decrease any prejudice towards that group.
What is Intergroup Contact?
This is the 'A' element in the ABC model of attitudes.
What is Affective?