psych unit two part one

Social psychology

Study of how we influence one another’s behavior and thinking

People thoughts, feelings and behavior are influenced by actual imagined or implied presence of others

Conformity

Change in behavior or beliefs to conform to a group as results of real or imagined group pressure

Informational social influence

Conform to avoid conflict or to be accurate

Normative social influence

Conform to avoid rejection or gain approval

Obedience

Compliance with commands given by authority figures

Compliance

Doing something when I asked even if you don’t want to

Foot in the door technique

Compliance with fairy Small request to get larger request: consistency

Door in the face technique

Large unreasonable request followed by smaller reasonable request

Low ball technique

Getting compliance to an attractive less costly, but later exposing true request

That’s not all technique

Comply to request after buildup makes request sound better

Social loafing

Less effort in group

Bystander effect

Most noticed something is amiss, define situation as an emergency, assess how personal responsible they feel, decide how best to offer assistance, and must act on that decision

Deindividuation

Loss sense of self

Group polarization

Belief in attitudes grow stronger when discussing with like-minded people

Social facilitation

Performance, enhanced by presence of people watching

Attribution

Explaining someone’s behavior in terms of internal disposition or external situation

Fundamental attribution error

Overstimulating influence of personality and underestimating influence of situation

Experimental bias

When researchers expectations or beliefs about outcome influence results

Primacy effect

Remember earlier information better than following information

Self fulfilling prophecy

Prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to be true or expectation, influencers behaviors leading to expected outcome

Actor observer bias

Blame outside things for your actions or blame circumstances by judging others character

False consensus effect

People tend to overestimate extent to opinions, beliefs, value, values and habits are normal and typical of other others

False Uniqueness effect

People view quality traits, and personal attributes as unique when they aren’t

Diffusion of responsibility

When people are less likely to take action or feel responsible in situations when there are other people around