Phenomenons
What is deindividuation?
When a person in a group loses their sense of self which leads to conformity and reduced accountability
What kind of person was more likely to answer an ad for a study about prison life?
Aggressive people
What is groupthink?
Describe the Milgram Study
Learner, instructor, and participant. Participant had to shock the learner whenever they got an answer wrong. Participant often shocked the learner up to 450 volts
What is the beauty is good hypothesis?
Someone who looks good also must be a moral person
What is the foot in the door phenomenon?
Asking for a little favor so you can get a bigger favor later
What happened in the video with the bridges that we watched?
When on a more dangerous bridge, the men surveryed were more likely to call the woman surveryor, while men on a safer bridge were less likely to call her.
What is informative social influence?
When a person conforms to another because they believe the person to be more knowledgable
In the original Milgram study, what percentage of people administered the maximum shock to the learner?
65%
What happened in the study with the four equally attractive women and class attendance?
The person who attended class all 15 times was rated the most attractive
What is social loafing?
What was the study with the confederate talking behind the participants back?
People "overheard" the confederate talking about them, and those who heard negative-positive remarks were more likely to like the confederate
What is normative social influence?
When you conform in order to be accepted by a group
What factors made people ignore Milgram's directions?
When they saw someone else dissent or when the study was not held at Yale
What is social facilitation?
A person presents better on tasks when they're simple/well-rehersed, and worse when complicated/unfamiliar in front of someone else
What is the bystander effect?
If there are a lot of people around to witness a particular event, the less likely a person is to help
Describe the Langer flight study and what was improved?
Operated realistic flight simulator and roleplayed as a pilot, eye sight was improved
Who quit in the recreation of the Milgram study and why?
He associated the obedience with the Nazis during World War II when people claimed that they were just following orders. He also seemed more empathic in that he asked how much pain the learner would feel
In the faces we saw in class, how many faces merged together did it take to make the most attractive person?
32
What is fundamental attribution error?
Underestimate how much environmental factors influence an event and overestimate how much internal factors influence an event
Describe the Stanford Prison experiment
group of "prisoners" and "guards" (college students) to recreate a prison environment in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Prsioners were being mistreated by guards. Study was called off after 6 days
What was the Solomon Asch study?
A group looks at a four lines and has to match the length of one line to another. A real person was in a group with confederates, and would hear their answers before giving theirs. A third of the participants answered incorrectly after hearing the confederate answers
What was an excuse one of the participants gave for shocking the learner in the recreation?
she justified shocking the learner because they signed the consent form and the experimenter said there would not be lasting tissue damage.