Chapter 12 professor Guston
Phenomenon of explaining other people's behaviors are due to internal factors and our own behaviors are due to situational force
Actor observer bias
Effect focuses on the influence of the group majority on an individuals judgment
Asch effect
Group majority influences an individual's judgement even when that judgment is inaccurate
Asch effect
Explanation for the behavior of other people
Attribution
Volunteer does not stop by to help in public because they do not feel responsible
Bystander effect
Don knows that drinking too much liquor is a costly habit that is bad for his health, but he continues to drink large amounts of liquor, he also thinks he is a smart person that makes good choices. Don feels some psychological discomfort from this contradiction, which is also called
Cognitive dissonance
Psychological discomfort that arises from a conflict in a person's behaviors, attitudes, or beliefs that runs opposite to one's positive self perception
Cognitive dissonance
Standing by the person
Commitment
Intimacy and commitment but no passion (friends and family)
Companionate
Intimacy, passion, and commitment. Ideal love
Consummate
A women falls, but you don't help because you assume others will
Diffusion of responsibility
People do not stop to help because they think everyone else will help
Diffusion of responsibility
Our behavior is determined by internal factors
Dispositionism
What are some ways to relieve cognitive dissonance?
Either change beliefs or change behaviors
Intrapersonal level topics
Emotions, attitudes, the self, and social cognition
Make an F and say professor didn't teach you not that you didn't study
External self serving bias
Passion and commitment, but no intimacy
Fatuous love
Start asking for something small to get something big later
Foot in the door
Overemphasize internal factors as explanations or attributions for the behavior of other people
Fundamental attribution error
Group members modify their opinions to match group consensus
Groupthink
Modification of the opinions of members of a group to align with what they believe is a group conscious
Groupthink
Interpersonal topics
Helping behavior, aggression, prejudice, discrimination, attraction, and close relationships, and group processes and inter group relationships
Latra and Vaughn are the same race and attend the same church. They met in their psychology class, a subject they both major in, they begin to date
Homophily
Prejudice and discrimination against individuals because of their sexual orientation
Homophobia
Tendency for people to form relationships with people who are similar
Homphillia
Intent to cause harm
Hostile agression
What do frustration agression theorists say about aggression as whole ?
Humans resort to aggression when needs/goals are blocked
Group that we identify with or see ourselves as belonging to
In group
What are ways to prevent groupthink?
Individual scoring, voting in private, and seek outside opinions
Conformity to a group norm prompted by the belief that the group is competent and has the correct information
Informational social influence
Agression for a goal not harm
Instrumental agression
Nicole wants a cookie. Heather has a cookie. Nicole pushed heather and takes her cookie. Nicole doesn't intend to hurt heather, Nicole just wants the cookie. This is an example of.
Instrumental frustration
Sharing of details and intimate thoughts and emotions
Intimacy
Ideology common in the US that people get outcomes that they deserve
Just world hypothesis
You hate reality tv but watch to fit in
Normative social influence
Group that we do not belong to-one we view fundamentally different from us
Out group
Physical attraction
Passion
What is social exchange theory?
People weigh the benefits/cons before forming relationships
Process of changing our attitude and feelings toward something based on some form of communication
Persuasion
What was the Stanford prison experiment? Briefly describe the setup. What was the results?
Proved that social roles affect behavior. Randomly assigned people prisoners and guards and people really started to believe their role. This shows people believe social roles even if they have no meaning. Problems with it are that prisoners became very distressed.
Passion, intimacy, and no commitment
Romantic
Act of blaming an out group when the in group experiences frustration or Is blocked from obtaining a goal
Scapegoating
Person's knowledge about the sequence of events in a specific setting
Script
Make an A on exam because you are super smart not because the exam was easy
Self serving bias internal
Prejudice based on their sex
Sexism
Our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings
Situationism
Who is known as created triangular theory of love
Sternbergs
What was the milgram obedience study?
Tested obedience to authority , people will listen to authority, when authority decreases so does obedience.
What are the three types and components of love?
Types: consummate, companionate, romantic, fatuous Components: intimacy, passion, commitment
Using someone's looks/creditbitliy to persuade audience (subtle so effective)
Yale attitude
If a person says that actors make effective spokespeople for potato chips because they are above average attractiveness which aPproach is that person using?
Yale attitude change
Central route (direct strong argument) more effective, and peripheral route (association instead of direct)
Élaboration likelihood model
