Social Psychology
The study of how individuals behave when in groups.
What is Social Psychology?
A widely held belief or assumption about a particular category of people.
What is a stereotype.
A weightlifter is likely to perform better when they have family and/or friends present.
What is social facilitation?
Someone who does not contribute their full effort when working in a group.
Who is a social loafer?
When more people are present, one feels less responsibility to help.
What is the bystander effect?
Lake Washington High School's motto
What is, "strong we will never fall"
Altering our own behavior to match the group's.
What is conformity?
Unjust treatment of a category of people, based on their being members of a particular group.
What is discrimination?
Actions influence attitudes and __________________________.
What is attitudes influence actions.
What was Stanley Milgrim trying to learn about with his "shock machine" experiment?
What is Obedience?
Altruism
What is the unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
Lake Washington High school's original name.
What is Kirkland High School
Change our attitude or change our behavior.
How to reduce cognitive dissonance.
Unjustified, irrational and unfair emotions toward members of a particular group.
What is prejudice?
The tendency to put out less effort when working as part of a group.
What is social loafing.
Solomon Asch was trying to learn about this behavior
What is conformity
Happiness breeds helpfulness and ___________________
What is helpfulness breeds happiness.
What is now known as Lake Washington High School was originally located here. (a different location)
What is Market Street
The tendency, when judging someone else's behavior, to blame their personal disposition rather than trying to understand their situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The just world phenomenon.
What is the belief that good is rewarded and evil is punished.
You don't belong to this group.
What is an outgroup?
Psychologist who ran the Stanford Prison Experiment
Who is Philip Zimbardo.
Being in a good mood. Having observed someone else being helpful. Being focused on others. Having time.
What are factors that increase the odds of helping behavior?
What is now known as Lake Washington High School first opened in this year.
What is 1922.
Cognitive Dissonance
What is the sense of tension caused when our attitudes and actions don't match?
The phenomenon that faces of people in our own race are easier to recognize/differentiate that are the faces of those in another racial group.
What is the other-race effect.
When in a crowd and feeling anonymous, someone might do things that they might not do if they were alone, due to this phenomenon.
What is deindividuation?
Supposedly, 37 people witnessed her murder and didn't call the police.
Who is Kitty Genovese?
Researchers have found we will only help if we notice the incident, interpret it as an emergency and ________________________.
What is, we assume responsibility for helping?
The original mascot of Lake Washington High School (before the Kangaroo was chosen)
What is the Hornets