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Experimental Social Psychology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
12/07/2008

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rationalization
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we minimize how bad results of our actions are to make ourselves feels better
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consistency
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understand rationality this way to analyze its many manifestations... saves from embarrassment
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cognitive dissonance
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cognitions imply the reverse of one another
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consonant cognitions
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imply one another
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irrelevant cognitions
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no psychological implications
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Festinger and Carlsmith
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researchers on the theory of cognitive dissonance
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attitudes
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cognitive dissonance was designed to not influence behaviors, but to influence...
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keeping cognitions consonant
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is a primary human motivation and one that can have a powerful impact on our beliefs and feelings.
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subtle approach
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works best in changing people's minds
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sequential priming task
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primes precede targets. follow one another in rapid succession. primes and targets match. reflects underlying social attitudes that people are unwillingly to express openly... indicates automatic associations
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Dovidio et al.
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experimenters in hidden prejudices
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deliberate discrimination
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intentional mistreatment of minorities
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spontaneous discrimination
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inadvertent mistreatment of minorities
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self-reported prejudice
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questionnaire... measures: Old-Fashioned Racism Scale & Modern Racism Scale
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implicit prejudice
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spontaneous discriminaton predictor. found by sequential priming tasks. individuals may not be aware of prejudices.
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conscious assessments of interviewer
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in underlying prejudice experiment. interviewers were rated based on performance by participants. likability and sincerity. rater's also judged themselves.
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non-verbal behaviour
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was also scrutinized by experimenters. levels of eye contact and rates of blinking. identified interpersonal warmth.
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self-reported prejudice and implicit prejudice
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are unrelated. (scores on OFRS & MRS failed to correlate with sequential priming tasks)
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interpersonal warmth
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a far stronger mediator of self-fulfilling prophecy than explicit feedback.
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norms
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rules shared by a group of people about what behaviors & beliefs are appropriate
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social responsibility norm
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stresses one's duty to help people in desperate need
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norm of reciprocity
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requires one to repay others' gifts or favors
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social sins of commission
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doing what one should not be doing
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social sins of omission
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failing to do what one should be doing
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Sherif
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experimenter on norms (light)
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autokinetic effect
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optical illusion where stationary dot seems to jump around
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confederate
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false participant who is someone associated with the experimenter
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Sherif's study showed
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internalizing norms and abiding by them using informational influence
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Solomon Asch
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did line tests to study group norms
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size of group pertaining to norms
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matters until after 3 or 4, then stays consistent
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in Asch study, participants' motivation was...
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to get along with the group.
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informational influence
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others influence us becausew we recognize that their opinions often reflect reality. We conform out of a desire to be right.
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normative influence
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we fall in line because we feel the ned to comply. builds self-esteem
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normative pressure is more powerful...
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when it occurs face-to-face.
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ubiquitous and hard-to-resist norms
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shape social life.
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John Darley and Bibb Latane
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Researchers on Bystander Failure
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pluralistic ignorance
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no one else helping makes you question whether it is an emergency. one looks at how others are responding and if not, collective inaction begets collective inaction. may also make assumption someone else is helping.
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diffusion of responsibility
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responsibility is spread among all the bystanders, so individual responsibility is diffused.
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Darley and Latane's study
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NYU students in room, listen to personal info of someone else, thinks there are others listening, person has epileptic seizure. timing of help measured if any at all. measured reaction of participants based on how many people he/she thought was listening.
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independent variables in Darley and Latane
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group size and composition
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dependent variables in Darley and Latane
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whether and how fast a participant reported seizure to experimenter
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avoidance-avoidance conflict
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were ashamed if did not take action but did not want to make fools of themselves by jumping to conclusions
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the more witnessed to an emergency...
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the less likely anyone is to help
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Milgram
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experimentor on Obedience
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banality of evil
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many people who do evil things are not horrible people, but normal people following orders
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operationalized obedience
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Milgarm defined obedience in terms of how he could measure it.
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moderators
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influences
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boundary conditions
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limits on
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main dependent variable in Migram
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maximum shock a participant would administer before refusing to go on
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300-volt shock
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not one person stopped before it
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65% in obedience experiment
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delivered the full shock
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group pressure/defiant ally
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as a great influence on people
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subsidiary role of participant
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when he/she felt less responsible by not pulling the lever, 93% let the learner experience the full shock
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norm of obedience
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dictates that people should obey those with legitimate authority
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norm of social responsibility
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demands that people help others in distress
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low-balling
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one commits to something that is more costly than originally anticipated
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Zajonc
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cockroach study. as well as Turkish word practice. relationship between presence of others and individual performance
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presence of others can
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enhance (social facilitation) or impair performance (social inhibition)
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heightened arousal
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facilitates dominant responses, but inhibits non-dominant responses
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presence of an audience with Turkish words
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found that in presence of others, facilitated those that were practiced many times, but inhibited recall of less frequent ones.
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Roaches took more time when
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in tadem in maze or alone on runway
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presence of others/roaches
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presence of roach audience inhibited maze performance but facilitated runway performance
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