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| The study of how thoughts, feelings, perceptions and behaviours are influenced by the interactions between people |
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| Social Psychology: Real social context |
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| Behaviour when others are around |
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| Imagined social psychology |
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| When you imagine how others will react |
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| Symbolic social psychology |
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| When you are alone but create token representations of others |
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| Inferences drawn about the cause of events, other's behaviour or own behaviour |
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Dispositional attributions
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| Cause due to character, traits, abilities and feelings |
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| Cause due to external constraints, situational demands |
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| Fudamental attribution error |
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| Tendency to overestimate dispositional attribtions and underestimate situational attributions (except our own behaviour) |
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| Underestimating situational factors except when it's about out behaviour |
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| Attitudes towards a person's behaviour that rely on attribution made (i.e. someone lost job dispositional i.e. poor character or situational i.e. poor economy) |
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| Give an example of unstable dispositional and situational |
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Dispositional: failed exam because upset over dog death
Situation: she was unlucky because she was tested on stuff she didn't know |
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| Give an example of stable and unstable dispositional |
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Dispositional: She doesn't have the ability to pass psych
Situational: The course was too hard |
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| People are less likely to provide help when they are in groups rather than when they are alone |
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| What makes group projects so difficult |
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| Loss of awareness of individuality |
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| What was the soloman Asch experiment? |
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| People asked to say which line lengths corresponded while confederates disguised as participants gave wrong answers |
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| Factors that affect group conformity |
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- Larger group (more conformity)
- Group cohesiveness (if one breaks less likely)
- Ambiguity (harder the task the more conformity)
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| What did Milgrim's studies of obediance entail? |
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| Testing to see if people were willing to "harm" others when given instruction from authority |
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| We tend to be attracted to others who are simiar to us |
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| We tend to go for others that are similar on the attraction scale as us (relationships said to last longer) |
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| We tend to like others who like us |
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| Tendency to evaluate how partner matches up to romantic ideals (minimize negative and maximize positive) |
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| Believed romantic love is a series of adult attachments |
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| Rules that regulate how we are supposed to act |
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| What made people in the Milgrim study more likely to disobey? |
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- When experimenter left the room
- Where there are two experimenters giving conflicting orders
- When the learner was in the toom
- When the person demanding they continue was an ordinary man
- When the participant worked with others who refused to go further
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| Graudal process in which individuals escalte their commitment to a course of action to justify investment or time, money or effot |
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| Area of social psych concerned with social influenecs on thought, memory, perception and beliefs |
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| People tend to explain behaviour based on dispositional or situational attributions |
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| Is dispositional attribution more prevalent in Western or Eastern cultures? |
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| Tendency to believe that the world is fair |
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| State of tension when one holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsisten of when behaviour is inconsisten with belief |
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| Tendency of people to feel more positively about familiar things |
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| Tendency of people to believe something is tre simply because it has been repeated several times |
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| Why is the use of the term "brainwashing" frowned upon? |
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| Because it implies a sudden change of mind |
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| Tendency for a group to think alike and suppress disagreement for the sake of harmony |
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| Diffusion of responsibility |
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| In groups, tendency to avoid taking action assuming others will |
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| The part of the person's identity associated with a nation, political or religious group, occupation or other social affiliation |
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| A person's identification with a racial or ethnic group |
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| Members of minority group come to identify with a mainstream culture |
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| The beliefs that one's own ethnic group, nation or religion is superior to all others |
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| What are some factors in courageous behaviour? |
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- Person has an ally
- Subject to entrapment
- Realizes something needs to change
- Courageous act is consisten with cultural beliefs
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| What are the 4 causes of prejudice |
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- Social (pressures to conform)
- Psychological (groups of low self esteem or scapegoating)
- Economic (majority group uses prejudice to preserve power)
- Cultural and national causes (bonds people to their own group)
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| How can we eliminate prejudice? |
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- Both sides have equal status, economic opportunities and power
- Authorities and community institutions must provide moral, legal and economic support for bother sides
- Both have oppotunities to work togther
- Both sides co-operate and work towards a common goal
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