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The scientific study of how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by the groups we belong
Social psychology
Who conducted the leadership style experiment
Kurt Lewin
Who conducted the conformity experiment
Solomon Asch
Who conducted the obedience to authority experiment
Stanley MilgramWho
Who conducted the Stanford Prison experiment
Philip Zimbardo
Change is behavior brought about social pressure to comply with people perceived to be authority figures
Obedience
What was the independent variable in Milgram’s obedience experiment
The authority figure
What was the dependent variable in Milgram’s obedience experiment
Obedience
What percentage of participants in Milgram’s Obedience Experiment went all the way to 450 volts
65% (26 out of 40)
What did Milgram use to measure the behavior of obedience
The shock machine
Kind of leadership style: leader makes all the decisions and assigns tasks to group members
Authoritarian
Kind of leadership style: leader is only minimally involved in group decision making
Laissez-Faire
Kind of leadership style: leader encourage group members to come to decisions through consensus
Democratic
According to Kurt Lewin’s Leadership Experiment, which leadership style is the best
Democratic
In Lewin’s Leadership Style Experiment, what was the Independent Variable
Leadership style
In Lewin’s Leadership Style experiment, what was the dependent variable
Productivity
Acting in accord with group norms or customs
Conformity
Approximately what percentage of participants conformed at least once during Solomon Asch’s experiment
70%I
In Asch’s Conformity Experiment, what was the Independent Variable
The size of the group
In Asch’s conformity experiment, what was the dependent variable
Conformity
A cognitive bias that causes one’s perspective of another to be unduly influenced by a single positive trait, such as being attractive
Halo effect
A cognitive bias that causes one’s perception of another to be unduly influenced by a single negative trait
Horn effect
Tendency to attribute one’s own behavior to situational causes but to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes
Actor-observer bias
An inclination to over-attribute other’s behavior to internal causes and to discount situational factors
Fundamental attribution error
