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