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Social Psychology
Social psychology recap questions
Question | Answer |
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The tendency to think something is likely to happen because examples of it happening are easy to remember | Availability heuristic |
The best option in this situation is to remain silent. However you could get lucky by snitching | Prisoner’s dilemma |
When the ABCs of an attitude don’t match up | Cognitive dissonance |
When people act like part of a mob and aren’t worried about their individual consequences. | Deindividuation |
When someone does better when they are being watched or are part of a group | Social Facilitation |
Name 2 out of the 4 causes of conflict | Revenge, Competition for Scarce Resources Selfish or Unfriendly Motives of Others Miscommunication |
What are 2 out of the 4 reasons people conform | Normative social influence (want to fit in) Informational social influence (want to be right) |
When favors are expected to be returned | Reciprocity |
A personality/government type prone to scapegoating | Authoritarianism |
When your thoughts and actions cause an event to unfold in a certain way. | Self-Fulfilling Prophecy |
The way you think an event should/will play out | Script |
Providing something for no charge with the hope someone will eventually buy something. | Free Gift Technique |
What is one factor that affects obedience? | Prestige of Authority The obedience of others/ lack of obedience of others Personality |
Considering your group to be better than others | Ethnocentrism |
Asking for something small and then making larger requests. technique | Foot in the door |
Raising the price once someone has shown interest or committed to buying. | Low-ball technique |
Asking for something large and then making smaller requests | Door in the face technique |
Thinking your chances of winning go up the more you lose in a game of chance | Gambler’s fallacy |
Judging people based upon how much they resemble the prototype. | Representative heuristic |
Exerting less effort when you are a member of a group and your efforts will be hidden. | Social loafing |
Pairing a neutral stimulus with a stimulus which will cause someone/thing to associate them with each other. | Classical conditioning |
Providing rewards to increase desired behavior and administering punishments to reduce unwanted behavior. | Instrumental conditioning |
3 ways to manage conflict | Bargaining 3rd party intervention (mediation, arbitration etc.) Superordinate Goal (work towards an important goal |
Aggression used to gain some personal benefit | Instrumental aggression |
Trying to convince someone of something using data and reasoning. They will need to pay attention and think. | Central Route Processing |
Unselfish regard for the welfare of others | Altruism |
Trying to convince someone to do something by showing images and using words not necessarily related to the product. | Peripheral route processing |
Results from frustration and is not necessarily intended to produce benefits. | Hostile Aggression |
Do violent video games cause children to be violent? | Inconclusive, but children who played aggressive games were more aggressive than ones who did not play them directly after. Children who identified with violent characters were more aggressive as adults. |
The 4 biomedical explanations for aggression | Brain damage Genetics Drugs Hormones |
What are the 4 reasons people help? | Personal gain/ rewards outweigh costs Emergency Empathy Negative state relief/ make yourself feel better or good |
Wrongly attributing something to internal factors/ not considering external factors. “He’s poor because he’s lazy” | the fundamental attribution error |
Name 2 factors that influence attraction | Proximity Similarity Physical attractiveness Familiarity Reciprocity |
The social phenomena in which people don’t help because of the presence of others | the bystander effect |
Attributing the success of others to external factors and attributing personal success to internal factors | Actor- Observer bias |
Getting short term personal gains without worrying about long term group consequences | Social Dilemmas |
Blaming an outgroup for the problems of society | Scapegoating |
What 2 things are essential when resolving conflict | Communication, Trust |
A belief about how someone should behave based on their appearance/ a mental representation | Schema |