Guest Lecture
This term refers to the concern that scientific findings may not hold up when studies are repeated
What is the reproducibility crisis?
The tendency to change our behavior to match group norms, demonstrated in both Asch and Sherif’s classic studies.
What is conformity?
What was an example of compliance we talked about in lecture?
The Hotel Towel study
What's the major difference between informative social influence and normative social influence?
Informative social influence is likely to lead to private acceptance.
Psychology based primarily on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic samples is known by this acronym.
What is WEIRD?
What phenomenon explains the study that attempted to show that elderly priming led to slower walking in younger populations?
What is social priming?
Copying someone’s movements without realizing it is called this type of unconscious conformity.
What is mimicry?
This researcher conducted the famous shock experiment on obedience.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This brain region activates more when people think about themselves than others.
What is the mPFC (medial prefrontal cortex)?
People in rice-farming regions tend to think this way: analytic or holistic?
What is holistic thinking?
The tendency to seek evidence that supports what we already believe contributes to false positives.
What is confirmation bias?
This type of social influence occurs when we look to others for information in ambiguous situations.
What is informational social influence?
When the learner (person getting shocked) was in the same room as the teacher (participant), obedience levels did what?
What is go down?
This neuroscience method has excellent temporal resolution but poor spatial resolution.
What is EEG
Cultural tightness—strong norms and strict punishment for deviance—is associated with higher levels of this type of agriculture in China.
What is rice farming?
When researchers make many analyses until they find a significant result, it's called this.
What is p-hacking?
In Asch’s Line study, these factors reduced conformity from 30% to about 5%.
What is having an ally (a dissenter) or privately answering condition?
The influence of other people on our everyday thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
What is social influence?
Single-neuron recording has both high spatial and temporal resolution but is limited mainly because of this issue.
What is its invasiveness?
According to Schulz et al., medieval Church policies weakened these family-based social structures.
What are intensive kinship systems?
Name one major open science solution that reduces false-positive findings by committing to an analysis plan before viewing data.
What is preregistration?
(Other acceptable: publishing null results, large collaborations, open science)
This type of conformity changes internal beliefs, while its counterpart changes only outward behavior.
What are informative social influences and normative social influences?
Seeing two fellow "teachers" refuse to continue shocks lowered obedience due to this phenomenon.
What is group dissent (or reduced authority salience through social modeling)?
In the Parkinson's study, pairs of people who shared this social relationship showed more similar neural responses.
What is friendship?
In the Starbucks observational study, people in more individualistic regions were more likely to do this behavior when moving through crowded spaces.
What is move the environment (move chairs) instead of accommodating others?