Psych 70 Final Exam - Multiple Choice
Jeremiah
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Identity different 'selves' than an individual may take on in social interaction
-Taifel 1959 experiment
-Goal: to understand the effect of group membership on perceptions and behaviors
-Procedures: Participants judged the similarity of physical objects. In C1, objects were
Accentuation effect divided into sets and explicitly presented as separate groups. In C2, objects were just
divided into sets.
-Key Finding: In C1, people perceive greater similarity within sets and less similarity
between sets.
Procedures: put into three-person groups based on artist preference, participants
distributed money to self and others according to one of three payment schemes: MJP
(maximum joint profit), MIP (maximum profit for the ingroup), MD (maximum difference
between in and out groups)
"Minimal group" experiment (basic findings)
Basic Findings: Participants favored the MIP rather than the MJP. People were willing to
forgo profit to deprive the outgroup
Reason for name: they found the minimal basis for creating ingroup favoritism (they
could make groups out of almost nothing)
Robber's Cave Experiment see long answer question definition
Woman assaulted and murdered in her apartment building. "37" people heard her
Kitty Genovese
screaming, but no one called the police.
Participants: theology seminary students
Procedure: Measured religious beliefs and were told to prepare a speech either on (1)
Good Samaritan or (2) Non-Helping topic. They were then told they were either (1) on
Good Samaritan experiment
time or (2) late. On their way to their speech, they came across a man in need.
Results: People were less likely to stop and help the later they were for their speech.
There was no correlation with which topic they were giving.
Altruistic helping: motivated by the desire to increase another's welfare
Altruism vs egoism
Egoistic helping: motivated by the desire to increase one's own welfare.
The preferential helping of genetic relatives (strongest when biological stakes are high,
Kinship selection like mother/child).
(Because helping can enhance survival and reproductive successes.)
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