Flashcards Social Psychology Year 1.4 Psychology

The latitude of acceptance is wider when a very credible person is trying to persuade you.

Conformity that involves both acting and believing in accord with social pressure (acceptance).

The social learning theory states that we learn social behaviour by observing and imitating others, and then by self-regulating our own behaviour accordingly. Behaviour of others is observed and learned through that person’s family, subculture, and mass media.

Collective mentalities that mobilise a group or a culture for extraordinary actions. Massacres are social phenomena fed by moral imperatives and are not simply the plural of homicides.

Social categorisation is the cognitive partitioning of the social world into relatively discrete categories of individuals.

Men and women feel the same emotions, but men are implicitly taught to express anger when they feel negative emotions whereas women are implicitly taught to express sadness when they feel negative emotions.

A typical bystander study proceeds as follows; participants work either alone or in the presence of one or more other participants (passive bystanders) on an allegedly important task (e.g., filling out questionnaires, waiting for the experimenter). They suddenly witness a staged emergency (e.g., the experimenter becomes injured, a perpetrator offends someone, a thief steals something). Their responses to these emergencies are recorded, typically in terms of their probability of intervening and the time it takes them to do so. Results in the multiple-bystander condition are then compared with results in the single-bystander condition. By applying this classic paradigm, bystander effects have been found in many domains. Recent studies have found that the bystander effect occurs on the internet as well.