social psychology

• social psychology

  examins the influence of social processes on peoples thoughts, feelings, behaviour
• social processes

  how we interact with people are you influence thoughts behaviours
• muller lyer illusion

  • not all people show this illusion
  • people in industrialised societies show the illusion because of their experiences with sharp corners which provide information about relative distance
• social psychology

  considers similarities and differences across cultures, mindful of underrepresented perspectives and examines influence of social processes
• social norms

  shared expectations about how people should think feel behaviour
• ash conformity

  • lines coomparison to standrd
  • 75% ppl conformed
  • confederates and ONE actual participant
• factors affecting confomity

  • group size
  • unanimity
  • private response
  • expertise, status
• conformity

  adjustment of individual behaviour and attitudes to group standard
• obedience

  adherence to instructions from those of higher authority
• milgram obedience

  • particpant administer shocks
  • many participants were visibly anxious and didn't stop
• milgram summary

  • power of situation with authority
• attribution

  process of assigning a cause to our own behaviour and that of other

  • personal: explanation of persons behaviour as caused by internal factors
  • situation: explanation of persons behaviours caused by external
• bias attribution

  tendency to explain ones successes in terms of internal factors but failures in terms of external factors

  protect self image
• fundamental attribution error

  underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate role of person factors when explaining other persons behaviour
• self fulfilling prophecy

  when peoples expectations lead them to act in a way that brings about the expected behaviours

  people creating what they expect to see
• sterotypstereotypess

  belief about a persons characteristics on basis of group membership
• prejudice

  negative attitudes towards someone on basis of their membership
• discrimination

  behaviours directed towards someone on basis of their membership