Psych Final Review

influence (3 components) -conformity & groupthink – agreeing with a group to not be different -compliance- changing behavior because someone convinced you to do it -persuasion techniques:
-obedience & milgrim experiment- shock keeps going up allowed shocks.
-group behavior -social loafing- good when alone but lazy in group -social facilitation-positive influence on others performance
-ABC model of attitudes- attitude- emotional, behavior- our opinions change our actions, cognitive- beliefs and ideas about focus of attitude.
-what factors create attitude -forms of learning: direct contact, direct instruction, interaction with others, vicarious conditioning
-successful persuasion source(good messeanger) message needs to be clear, correct target audience
-cognitive dissonance: not acting like we say were gonna
-social categorization: know that an advantage = formation of schema & disadvantage = stereotyping & wrong assumptions
-attributes (2 kinds): be able to apply in example -fundamental attribution error: example
-know difference between prejudice & discrimination -prejudice is learned because of social cognitive theory- attitudes formed by social influence
-scapegoating: members of the out group to blame
-stereotype vulnerability: women & mathematics example
-interpersonal attraction: physical attraction, proximity- repeated exposure, similiarities
-sternberg’s different kinds of love- romantic love compassionate love consummate love
-aggression & Stanford prison experiment: fed into role, took social role serious
-kitty Genovese case -innocent bystanders: when # of bystanders increase, altruism decreases. Diuffusion of responsibility, mood , gender, appearance-difference between primary(present at birth) & secondary sex characteristics(gained through puberty) -gender identity disorder- tranys-how do we form gender beliefs in a more positive way? -androgyny: -male and female traits
-how do genders differ socially?
Men