Social Psychology Review

Created an experiment studying conformity

• Erikson
• Harlow
• Asch
• Freud

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

Created experiment testing obedience

• Zimbardo
• Asch
• Milgram
• Locke

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.

Asch (1951) discovered that?

• People experience self-doubt when they have views different to the majority, and want to avoid generating disharmony or conflict.

• People struggle to share their beliefs if they will be judged by others.

• People's views become more extreme when others present opposing views.

• People experience self-doubt when they have views that are not exactly the same as majority of the group and want to avoid humiliation.

Milgram's study discovered that...

• People will obey authority even in extreme situations, even when this means harming others.

• People are afraid of people older than them.

• People can take their roles too seriously and subconsciously enjoy tormenting others.

• People will obey authority if their life is in danger.

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

Which of the following concepts apply? My brother has the worst grade in the class because he's lazy and dumb.

• Self-serving bias
• Fundamental attribution error