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psychology ch. 13


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study of how people influence others' behaviour, beliefs and attitudes

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Social psychology
Study of how people influence others' behaviour, beliefs and attitudes
Need-to-belong theory
Humans have a biologically based need for interpersonal connections
Social comparison theory
Theory that we seek to evaluate our abilities and beliefs by comparing them with those of others
Upward social comparison
Comparing to superior people
Downward social comparison
Comparing to inferior people
Mass hysteria
Outbreak of irrational behaviour that is spread by social contagion
Collective delusions
Many people simultaneously coming or be convinced of bizarre things that are false
Urban legends
False stories repeated so many times that people believe them to be true
Social facilitation
Enhancement of performance brought about by the presence of others
Social disruption
A worsening of performance in the presence of others
Attribution
Process of assigning causes to behaviour
Fundamental attribution error
Tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences on other people's behaviour
Conformity
Tendency of people to alter their behaviour as a result of group pressure
Deindividuation
Tendency of people to engage in uncharacteristic behaviour when they are stripped of their usual identities
Groupthink
Emphasis on group unanimity at the expense of critical thinking
Group polarisation
Tendency of group discussion to strengthen the dominant positions held by individual group members
Cults
Group of individuals who exhibit intense and unquestioning devotion to a single cause
Inoculation effect
Approach to convincing people to change their minds about something by first introducing reasons why the perspective might be correct and then debunking them
Obedience
Adhere to instructions from those of higher authority
How is obedience a double-edged sword?
- society runs smooth because of obedience - obedience can cause trouble if we stop asking why we are obeying
Explain the Milgram Paradigm
- researcher, confederate and participant, the researcher is the 'teacher' and the confederate is the 'learner'. You do a paired-associate task, with each mistake you issue a painful shock (range of shocks) to the learner - shock will increase with each mistake
Pluralistic ignorance
Error of assuming that no one in a group perceives things as we do
Diffusion of responsibility
Reduction in feelings of personal responsibility in the presence of others
Social loafing
Phenomenon whereby individuals become less productive in groups
Altruism
Helping others for unselfish reasons
Enlightenment effect
Learning about psychological research can change real-world behaviour for the better
Relational aggression
Form of indirect aggression prevalent in girls, involving spreading rumours, gossiping and using nonverbal putdowns for the purpose of social manipulation
Belief
A conclusion regarding factual evidence
Attitude
Belief that includes an emotional component
Self-monitoring
Personality trait that assesses the extent to which people's behaviour reflects their true feelings and attitudes
Cognitive dissonance theory
Theory that states that we alter our attitudes because we experience cognitive dissonance
Cognitive dissonance
Unpleasant mental experience of tension resulting from two conflicting thoughts or beliefs
Self-perception theory
Theory that we acquire our attitudes by observing our behaviours
Impression management theory
Theory that we do not really change our attitudes, but report that we have so that our behaviours appear consistent with out attitudes
Foot-in-the-door techniques
Persuasive technique involving making a small request before making a bigger one
Door-in-the-face technique
Persuasive technique involving making an unreasonably large request before making the small request we're hoping to have granted
Low-ball technique
Persuasive technique in which the seller of a product starts by quoting a low sales price and them mentions all of the add-on costs once the customer has agreed to purchase the product
"but you are free" technique
Persuasive technique in which we convince someone to perform a favour for us by telling them that they are free not to do it
Implicit egotism effect
The finding that we are more positively disposed toward people, places or things that resemble us
Name-letter effect
The finding that we're more positively disposed to people whose names contain the first letter of our first (or last) name
Prejudice
The drawing of negative conclusions about a person, group of people of situation prior to evaluating the evidence
Stereotype
A belief, positive or negative, about the characteristics of members of a group that is applied generally to most members of the group
The ultimate attribution error
Assumption that behaviours among individual members of group are due to their internal dispositions
Adaptive conservatism
Evolutionary principle that creates a predisposition toward distrusting anything or anyone unfamiliar or different
In-group bias
Tendency to favour individuals within our group over those from outside our group
Out-group homogeneity
Tendency to view all individuals outside our group as highly similar
Discrimination
Negative behaviour toward members of out-groups
Minimal intergroup paradigm
A laboratory method for creating groups based on arbitrary differences
Scapegoat hypothesis
Claim that prejudice arises from a need to blame other groups for our misfortunes
Just-world hypothesis
Claim that our attributions and behaviours are shaped by a deep-seated assumption that the world is fair and all things happen for a reason
Explicit prejudice
Unfounded negative belief of which we are aware regarding the characteristics of an out-group
Implicit prejudice
Unfounded negative belief of which we're unaware regarding the characteristics of an out-group
Jigsaw classrooms
Educational approach designed to minimise prejudiced by requiring all children to make independent contributions to a shared project