Social Psychology Unit (6)

When in a group, people are less likely to give aid

• Social loafing
• Groupthink
• Bystander effect
• Social facilitation

When working as a group, less effort is put into a task

• Social loafing
• Social facilitation
• Bystander effect
• Groupthink

When a like-minded group discusses something, their ideas are strengthened

• Attribution error
• Psychological fall
• Social facilitation
• Groupthink

Social facilitation is defined as...

• Tendency for presence of others to enhance performance on simple tasks but inhibit or impair performance on difficult tasks.

• Tendency for presence of others to enhance performance on difficult tasks, but inhibit or impair performance on simple tasks.

• Tendency for presence of others to lead to positive results for all parties based on simple tasks.

• Tendency for presence of those close to us to enhance performance on simple tasks.

Conformity is defined as?

• Tendency to adjust one's thoughts, feelings or behaviours in ways that are in agreement with those of a particular individual or group.

• Tendency to change a person's behaviours towards another to please the person in power.

• Tendency to form more extreme views towards those whose values are not in agreement with those of a particular individual or group.

• Tendency to adjust one's thoughts, feelings or behaviours in ways that contradict those of a particular individual or group.

Leo wants to go out on a date with his new girlfriend, however he had made plans with his best mate for his birthday but knows the girlfriend will get mad at not speak to him if he doesn't take her out. Leo is experiencing what psychological concept?

• Attribution theory

• Cognitive dissonance

• Social loafing

• Cognitive deception

The mental stress or discomfort caused ban individual experiencing inconsistency between thoughts and actions. 

• Cognitive Dissonance
• Groupthink
• Deindividuation
• Attitude

Matching your attitudes  and behaviors to a group standard. 

• Obedience
• Conformity
• Altruism
• Lowball

Kayle asks Hanna for a dollar to buy a water, then asks for three to also buy a snack

• Foot-in-the-door
• Door-in-the-face
• low-ball
• ingratiation

Although Frieda is typically very reserved, when she attended a huge rock concert in the middle of an immense crowd, she lost her inhibitions and self-restraint and behaved in a very aggressive way. Frieda’s unusual behavior is best understood in terms of: 

• the bystander effect.
•  social facilitation.
•  deindividuation.
•  the mere exposure effect.