Attitudes and Actions
Our name for this unit, or the scientific study of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others.
What is Social Psychology?
Unwritten but accepted and expected rules for social behavior
What is a social norm?
This type of love is associated with strong feelings of desire
What is Passionate Love?
Matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to a group standard
What is "Conformity"?
In psychological studies and experiments, this is the name for a person who appears to be a regular participant but is actually working with the researchers.
What is a "confederate"?
An expression of favor or disfavor toward a person, place, thing, or event.
What is an "attitude"?
an individual's tendency to attribute another's actions to their character or personality, while attributing their behavior to external situational factors outside of their control.
What is the fundamental attribution error
This is the process leading to romantic relationships
What is attraction?
the influence of other people that leads us to conform in order to be liked and accepted by them
What is "Normative Social Influence"?
In this study, volunteers were placed at a table with confederates and asked which line (A,B, or C) matched the sample line. Confederates intentionally answered incorrectly to see how the volunteer would respond to test conformity.
What is the Asch Conformity Study?
Mental stress or discomfort
caused by an individual experiencing inconsistency between thoughts and/or actions
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Kayla views herself as an animal lover. When she thinks about where the meat in her cheeseburger comes from, she feels discomfort. What is this an example of?
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
This comes after Passionate Love and is the love present in long relationships
What is Companionate Love?
Assuming the actions of others to attempt to reflect correct behavior when uncertain of the social situation
What is "Informational Social Influence"?
This is the most famous historical example of role playing. In this experiment a makeshift prison was created at Stanford University, volunteers were randomly assigned to be a prisoner or a guard, and as time went on the guards acted sadistically and the prisoners acted passively helpless.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment/Zimardo's Prison Study?
In relation to cognitive dissonance, a smoker who knows that smoking has negative health risks will either stop smoking or do what?
What is rationalize why it's not that bad for them.
A driver cuts you off on the highway, and you assume they must be careless and rude, as opposed to considering other factors like road conditions. What is this an example of?
Fundamental Attribution Error
The idea that you're more likely to meet the person you are going to marry in the city in which you live is called what?
What is Proximity?
What is one condition that increases the likelihood of conformity?
You feel incompetent
The group is at least three people
The group is unanimous
You admire the group’s status
You feel others are watching your behavior
Your culture strongly encourages respect
In the Asch Conformity Study, approximately how many respondents conformed?
1/3 of Respondents Conformed
This has been known to change people’s attitudes. Examples include:getting married, starting a new job, or getting a pet- all of these things can change people's attitudes to be more responsible or act a certain way
What is role playing?
The loss of self-awareness and personal responsibility in group situations. We tested this with the Halloween Candy on Halloween when Mrs. Pestich left the room while you took "1" piece of candy, to see if anyone took more.
What is "deindividuation"
Liz and Pat recently moved into the same apartment complex. They quickly discovered that they both bring their dogs to the same dog park and visit the same coffee shop. Because of these shared interests, they’ve become good friends and feel more attracted to each other. Which factor of attraction best explains why they feel drawn to each other?
What is "Similarity"?
True or False: Cheering for the local sports team because your dad also does in an example of conformity?
What is TRUE?
In the Brain Games episode on Conformity that we watched in class, what did participants conform to?
standing up when they heard a beep in the doctor's waiting room