Social Psychology 1
The study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
What is Social Psychology?
Conforming to be accepted or belong to the group
Normative Social Influence
Changing your behavior to go along with the rest of the group
What is conformity?
A mental shortcut that people use to simplify judgements or decisions
What is a heuristic?
A changing your behavior at the request of another person
What is compliance?
Taking away one's humanity and unique sense of who they are such as being referred to as a number or a name
What is deindividuation?
One who presents as a research participant but is actually a part of the study
What is a confederate?
Cultural style that places personal goals or needs ahead of group goals or needs
Cultural style that places group goals needs ahead of personal goals or needs
What is collectivism?
Evaluation of people, objects, ideas
What are attitudes
When we judge an in-group member more harshly for a negative action than an out-group member
What is the Black Sheep Effect?
A generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members
What is a stereotype?
The tendency to conform when one believes that the group has more knowledge
What is informational social influence?
What is introspection?
The more we see and interact with people, the more likely they are to become our friends.
What is the propinquity effect?
Attributing an overimportance on personality factors and less on social factors when studying human behavior
What is fundamental attribution error?
Psychologist who studied obedience
Who is Stanley Milgram?
Psychologist who studied conformity
Who is Solomon Asch?
The process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, or concept
What is priming?
A feeling of discomfort caused by holding two or more inconsistent cognitions or a discrepancy between attitude and behavior
What is cognitive dissonance?
A person's belief in his or her ability to succeed at the task at hand
What is Self-Efficacy?
When a person underperforms due to their group membership being made salient to them
What is Stereotype Threat?
A persuasion technique involving having a person to agree to a small request first and a larger request later
What is Foot-in-the-door?
We see ourselves through other people's perceptions of us
What is the looking glass self?
A type of love that combines passion and commitment but lacks intimacy
What is Sternberg's Fatuous Love?