Social Psychology
Branch of psychology is most directly concerned with the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
What is social psychology?
The understood rules for accepted and expected behavior
What are social norms?
In group situations, the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint that fosters arousal and anonymity
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
What is personality?
Theories of personality that examine characteristic patterns of behavior
What are trait theories?
People attribute the causes of another's actions with these two choices
What are their personal characteristics or the situation?
People are less likely to give aid if an emergency occurs in the presence of many observers
What is the bystander intervention effect?
The improved performance of well-learned tasks in the presence of others is called
Social faciliitaiton
Theories of personality focused on our inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment
What are humanistic theories?
Carl Rogers emphasized that a positive self-concept would be promoted by
What is unconditional positive regard?
Our tendency to underestimate the impact of situation and to overestimate the impact of personality in explaining the behavior of others
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Situations that would make you UNLIKELY to experience deindividuation
What are situations where you are highly aware of yourself, such as being filmed, around coworkers who can identify you, or if you were wearing a name tag?
Explain Jane Elliot's brown-eyed blue-eyed study
She divided her classroom by eye color, with brown-eyed students being privileged and blue-eyed students facing discrimination. It highlighted how easy it is for humans to form ingroup bias/favoritism even on something as unimportant as eye color.
Theory of personality proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality
What is psychodynamic?
Freud believed that the basis of human personality was some form of ________ that needed to be resolved.
What is conflict?
The discomfort we feel when our thoughts and behaviors are inconsistent
What is cognitive dissonance?
Adjusting one's behavior or thinking towards a groups standard, as evidence in Asch's study with the length of a line
What is conformity?
How social facilitation improves performance
The presence of others is arousal, and the high arousal improves performance
Theories of personality explore the interaction between people's traits and their social context
What are social-cognitive theories?
The big five trait dimensions are
What are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism?
Explain Milgram's obedience study. What were the conclusions?
People will commit heinous acts, even if they do not want to, when they are ordered to by authority figures.
The tendency to exert less effort when they are working with others toward a common goal
What is social loafing?
Personality factors
What are clusters of personalty tendencies that occur together?
According to Albert Bandura, the interacting influences of behavior, internal personal factors, and environment illustrate
What is reciprocal determinism?
Series of stages suggested by Freud that children pass through during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
What are psychosexual stages?