Stanford Prison Experiment
Phillip Zimbardo
Line Study
Solomon Asch
Shock Expierment
Stanley Milgram
Conformity
What the Line Study focused on
Obedience to Authority
What the Shock Expierment focused on
Attributing behavior to the situation, not the the dispositions of the person
Situational Attribution
Accepting a new set of rules or norms
Role Internalization
when we attribute the reason for desirable outcomes to internal or personal reasons and attribute the cause of undesirable outcomes to external reasons.
Self-Serving Bias
When a group of like-minded people are given the opportunity to discuss a topic they generally agree upon, occurs if after the discussion, the average viewpoint of any given member of the group becomes more extreme.
Group Polarization
Occurs when people are too harmonious in their discussion of a topic. In other words, it's when people are too hesitant to voice what they perceive to be an opinion not shared by most of the group members.
Groupthink
when a person looses their sense of self-awareness, doesn't feel as personally responsible for their actions, and may have less concern about how others view them.
Deindividuation
Focusing on the facts and logic of the argument. Deeply processing all of the content of the message
Central Route of Persuasion
a person attempts to persuade you by emphasizing anything but the facts and logic to be made. Could be characteristics of the person giving the message
Peripheral Route of Persuasion
We're more likely to prefer things just by being exposed to them.
Mere Exposure Effect
When around a group of people, you are less likely to intervene and help in a given situation.
Bystander Effect
performance on a task improves in the presence of others.
Social Facilitation
When in a group, we tend not to work as hard. Think of the member that does not work hard in a group project.
Social Loafing
a tendency to favor members or our own group, often at the expense of those in the outgroup
Ingroup Bias
the tendency to view the world through our own cultural filters, will surely affect your reactions.
Ethnocentrism
a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
an unselfish regard for your own welfare for the sake of others.
Altruism
We are attracted to those whom we are constantly around.
Proximity Effect
Psychology says no. We are more likely to be attracted to those with whom we are more similar.
Do opposites attract?
Leon Festinger
Who studied Cognitive Dissonance?
Latane & Darley
Psychologists who studied the "Bystander Effect"
the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.
memory
the processing of information into the memory system—for example, by extracting meaning.
Encoding
the retention of encoded information over time.
Storage
the process of getting information out of memory storage.
retrieval
the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system.
Sensory memory
activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten.
Short-term memory
the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.
Long-term memory
a newer understanding of short-term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory.
Working memory
unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings.
Automatic processing
the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
Rehearsal
the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.
Spacing effect
our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list.
Serial position effect
the encoding of picture images.
Visual encoding
the encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words.
Semantic Ending
the encoding of sound, especially the sound of words.
Acoustic sound
mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding.
Imagery
organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.
Chunking
a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second.
Iconic memory
A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds.
Echoing memory
an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.
Long-term potential
a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
Flashbulb memory
the loss of memory.
Amnesia
retention independent of conscious recollection. (Also called non-declarative or procedural memory.) Unintetional memories that we may not know we have.
Implicit memory
memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare." (Also called declarative memory.) Conscious memories of facts or events we try to remember.
Explicit memory
a neural center that is located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage.
Hippocampus
a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test.
Recall
a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.
Recognition
a measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time.
Relearning
the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response.
Priming
that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
déjà vu
the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad emotion.
Mood-congruent memory
the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
Proactive interference
the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
retroactive interference
in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
Repression
incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
Misinformation effetc
attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. (Also called source misattribution.) Along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.
Source amnesia
occurs when the brain computes information step-by-step in a methodical and linear matter
Serial processing
Worked on group conflict ingroup and ou group bias
Muzafer Sherif
studied repressed memories and false memories/ car crash videos
Elizabeth Lotus
Human short term memory remembers things in 7 plus or minus two.
George Miller
Tested sensory memory and how fast the human brain can recognize something in 1/20th of a second
George Sperling
Pioneered the experimental study
Hermano Ebbinghaus
Children posses the inherit ability to acquire language.
Noam Chomsky
Remember items at the end of a list
Recency Effect
Both groups need to work together to complain a shared idea.
Superordinate Goals
Refusing a large request increases the likelihood of agreeing to a second smaller request
Door-in-the-face
Agreeing to purchase something at a given price increase the likelihood of agreeing to purchase it at higher price.
Low-Ball Technique
Asking someone of a small task them accepting, then following up with a larger request.
Foot-in-the-door
When you don’t know how to act, so you look at others.
Pluralistic Ignorance
In a group you feel less responsible for your actions
Diffusion of Responsibility
Similarity Principle which is similar interest, propinquity proximity being close, reciprocity is feels same way you do. But most importantly physical appearance matters first
Factors of Interpersonal Attraction
State of minInconsistency clash, when actions are not in harmony with thoughts/values
Cognitive Dissonance
Long term memory to Short Term memory
Retrivial
Short term memory to long term memory
Encoded
Storage in our LTM based today, similar to word webs in another class.
Semantic Network Theory
Intuitively assessing probabilities
Anchoring
Decisions made based on whether or not they match our prototype
Representative
Structural processing which is when we encode only the physical qualities of something.
Shallow Processing
Which is when we encode its sound
Phonemic Processing
A type of processing which happens when we encode the meaning of a word and relate it to similar words with similar meaning.
Semantic processing
Involves elaboration, rehearsal which involves a more meaningful analysis of information and leads to better recal.
Deep processing
Combination of gestured, spoken and or written words to communicate meaning
Language
Language structure, smallest individual sound in a language. Not the same as letters
Phoemes
Smallest units of meaningful parts of language.
Morphemes
Language sets of rules that enable people to communicate
Grammar
3-4 months after birth. A stage in speech development where the infants utters sounds unlike the family language. 10 months or so recognize native language.
Language development
Around begin saying small words
One-word stage
Telegraphic speech, nouns and verbs
Two-word stage
Believe that children learn language directly, rather than experiences with there environment.
Behaviorist
Believe born with a specific language, learning are in our brain. Believe that children are wired to learn language, regardless of there environment.
Nativist
If your bilingual you can speak a certain language based on your emotion.
Linguistic Determinism
The language we use might control, and in some ways label our thinking
Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
You never truly forget anything
Selective attention
A rule that is generally, but not always true
Heuristics