SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYWho makes us act the way we act?

UNIT 14

Social Thinking

Social Influence

Social Relations

INTRODUCTION

Social Psychology

Think, Relate and Influence one another

BEHAVIORS TO SITUATIONS

Attribution theory

Fundamental attribution error

Self-serving bias

ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS

Attitude

Looking Glass Effect

Central route persuasion

Peripheral route persuasion

ACTIONS AFFECTING ATTITUDES

The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon

“start small and build”

ATTITUDES AFFECT ACTIONS

Cognitive Dissonance: Relief From Tension

Cognitive dissonance theory

“Attitudes follow behavior”

ROLE PLAYING AFFECTS ATTITUDES

Which study was a prime example of this?

ROLE PLAYING AFFECTS ATTITUDES

DING DING DING

ZIMBARDO EXPERIMENT

Abu Ghraib

“Situations win, People lose”

SOCIAL INFLUENCE

Chameleon effect

Mood linkage

Conformity

Solomon Asch study

CONDITIONS THAT STRENGTHEN CONFORMITY

Conditions That Strengthen Conformity

One is made to feel incompetent or insecure

Group has at least three people

Group is unanimous

One admires the group’s status

One has made no prior commitment

Others in group observe one’s behavior

One’s culture strongly encourages respect for social standards

REASONS FOR CONFORMING

Reasons for Conforming

Normative social influence

Informational social influence

CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE

Obedience

Milgram’s studies on obedience

Procedure

Results

Ethics

Follow up studies

MILGRAM EXPERIMENT

GROUP INFLUENCE

Social Facilitation

Task difficulty

Expertise effects

GROUP INFLUENCE

Social Loafing

Reasons why?

Less accountability

View themselves as dispensable

Deindividuation

GROUP INFLUENCE

Group Polarization

Good Thing?

Groupthink

Bay of Pigs

Challenger explosion

CULTURE

Norm

Personal space

Pace of life

INDIVIDUAL POWER

Social control vs personal control

Minority influence

SOCIAL RELATIONS

Prejudice

Stereotype

Discrimination

SOCIAL ROOTS OF PREJUDICE

Social Inequalities

Us and Them: Ingroup and Outgroup

Ingroup (Ingroup bias)

Outgroup

Emotional roots of prejudice

Scapegoat theory

PREJUDICECOGNITIVE ROOTS OF PREJUDICE

Categorization

Other-race effect

Just-world phenomenon

Hindsight bias

AGRESSION

Genetic Influences

Neural Influences

Biochemical Influences

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL-CULTURAL FACTORS IN AGGRESSION

Aversive Events

Frustration-aggression principle

Social and cultural influences

Aggression-replacement program

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL-CULTURAL FACTORS IN AGGRESSION

Observing models of aggression

Rape myth

Do video games teach, or release violence?

Catharsis hypothesis?

ATTRACTION Proximity

Mere exposure effect

Physical attractiveness

Culture

Similarity

Reward theory of attraction

ROMANTIC LOVE

Love

Passionate love

Companionate love

Equity

Self-disclosure

Kitty Genovese

Bystander Intervention

Diffusion of responsibility

Bystander effect

ALTRUISMS

NORMS FOR HELPING

Social exchange theory

Reciprocity norm

Social-responsibility norm

CONFLICT AND PEACEMAKING

Conflict

Social trap

ENEMY PERCEPTIONS

Mirror-image perceptions

Self-fulfilling prophecy

CONFLICT AND PEACEMAKING

Contact

Cooperation

Superordinate goals

Communication

Conciliation

DAT FRIDAY QUIZ DOE LALALA

1. Define the foot-in-the-door phenomenon

2. Central Route Persuasion vs Peripheral route Persuasion? Which do you think is stronger and longer lasting? Which do you think is faster to implement?

3. What is Milgram experiment trying to prove? Briefly explain the experiment.

4. Define Groupthink and give an example.

5. Define Mood Linkage and give an example.

6. The term used to describe our tendency to copy the behaviors of others around us in public is?

7. The situation at Abu Garib was an example of what taking place?

DAT FRIDAY QUIZ1. Define the looking glass effect

2. Define and give an example of the Fundamental Attribution Error

3. What is Milgram experiment trying to prove? Briefly explain the experiment.

4. Central Route Persuasion vs Peripheral route Persuasion? Which do you think is stronger and longer lasting? Which do you think is faster to implement?

5. Define Mood Linkage and give an example.

6. What is the term given to the idea that we perform learned tasks better in front of other people?

7. The situation at Abu Garib was an example of what taking place?