Social Psychology (Chapter 12)

How do Group relationship influence human behavior, on both an interpersonal and intrapersonal level

something between people

Self-applied

Behavior is caused by the enviroment

Behavior is caused by internal factors

The tendency to not conciter other's situations when attributing behavior Ex. they must just be mean people

Found that people will ignore obvious situational influences on behavior (FAE Applied)

Belief about the cause of something

All about independence and personal achievment, FAE is more common

Group harmony and interdependence, FAE less common

Other people are just mean(Dispotism), but when I was doing it i was just having a bad day (Situationism)

Our succsesses are because were just good(Dispotism) but out failure are other peoples fault (Situationism)

people get what they diserve, Ex. poor people are lazy

A pattern of behavior expected from a position

unwritten rules about acceptable behavior

found that social roles are powerful determiners of human behavior

An evaluation of a person, place, thing, or idea, has three components

Affect, Behavior, Cognition

Feeling part of attitude

Acting part of an attitude

Thinking/ opinion part of an attitude

Psycological discomfort from having mismatched beliefs and or behaviors

Attitude change as a result of communication

first make a small request than make a larger one

A change in a persons behavior to match the group

Group majority influences indevidual judgement

size of the majority, presence of a decentor, public or private responses

Conforming just to fit in

conforming because the group may be right

change in indeviduals behavior to comply with an authority

Is best used on an attentive and modivatived audience, uses scientific or fact based arguement, high effort prosessing, lasting change in attitude

Used on a lazy and unmodivated audience, uses emotion and subliminal messaging to make arguements, low effort prosessing, temporary change in attitude

As humanity of the learner increaces, obedience decreaces, as authority decraces obedience decraces

Group attitudes strengthen after dicussion

Reduction of individual effort in groups

Less individual identity in a crowd

Negative identity based attitude

Negative identity based action

Specific identity based assumption

Seek out info confirming steriotypes