Chapter 13

• Lawrence Kohlberg - responsible for development of social psychology 


  Social Psychology

  • "How I communicate with you"
  • How people establish morals and decision making
  • Being free from authority that holds you accountable
• Kohlberg's Pyramid of Stages

  A) Reward and Punishemnt

  B) Self-Interest

  C) Pleasing Others

  D) Law and Order

  E) Social Contract

  F) Principle

  
• • Moral values and principles need to have validity (make sense)
  • Not only apply because it is a standard
• Altruistic Behavior - Helping others without a benefit to ourselves
• Prisoners Dilemma - a choose to cooperate or compete

  
• Diffusion of Responsibility - aka Bystander Effect, we feel less responsible to act when other people are equally able to act
• Social Loafing - the tendency to work less hard (loaf) when sharing work with other people
• Stereotype - a belief or expectation about a group of people
• Prejudice - an unfavorable attitude toward a group of people


  Discrimination - unequal treatment of different groups (minorities)
• Stereotype - Belief


  Prejudice - Attitude