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Social Influence Definition? |
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effect of situational/social factors on behavior. |
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Conformity and Experiment Who? Defenition? Experiment? |
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Solomon Asch
definition: changing one's own behavior to more closely match the actions of others.
study took one participant and many confederates and asked which line most closely matched the second card's line. It revealed that more than 1/3 of the particpants conformed to the answers of the confederates.
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phenomena where people feel it is more important to maintain group's cohesiveness then think more realistically abd speak up against the norm. |
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Compliance techniques (4 types) |
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1. Foot in the door technique- comply because you already said yes to one request 2. Door in the Face technique- large request is denied but second smaller request is complied. 3. Lowball Technique- once a commitment is made, the cost of that commitment is increased. 4. Thats Not All technique- something extra is thrown in to make deal look even better. |
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Obedience Definition? Study/experiment? |
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Changin ones behavior at request of authority figure.
Shock Experiment by Milgram people were told to shock a person for every wrong answer. the actor starts to show "pain and discomfort" but they tell the shocker to continue. the experiment showed that they obeyed the authority even though they knew it was at expense of another. |
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Social Facilitation/impairment Definition? |
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SOCIAL FACIL.- The positive influence of others' presence on one's performence. SOCIAL IMP.- the negative influence " " " |
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Social Loafing Definition? |
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People who do not work well when others are working on same task, but work QUITE WELL when working on their own. |
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Cognitive Dissonance Theory definition? 3 basic things to do to cange it? |
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When people find them selves doing things that dont match their idea of themselves, they experience an emotional discomfort to try and change it.
1. Change conflicting behavior to match attitude. 2. Change the current conflicting cognition to justify behavior. 3. Form new cognition to justify behavior. |
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Fundamental Attribution Error Definition? |
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The tendency of people to ignore the situattional circumstances and blame it on the "kind" of indiviual the person is. |
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Prejudice and Stereotype Definition? |
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prejudice- discrimination/ negative attitude towards a group which you do not belong. stereotype- due to lack of time spent withn/around that group. |
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Social Role and who studied it? what happened in experment? |
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the pattern of behavior that is expected of a person who is in a particular social position.
Zimbardo
The experiment ook place at a uniiversity. student became either guards or prisoners. the behavior of the students changed radically with the title of "guard" they treated the prisoners cruelly. and the experiment was cancelled.
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Deindividualization Definition? |
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a loss of personal identity from joining a social group. |
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as the number of people around increases, you are less likely to help someone in need. vice versa |
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Diffusion of responsibility |
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phenomenon where a person fails to take responsibility for either action or inaction due to the presence of other bystanders who are seen to share the responsibility. |
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