Social Psychology

What does Social Psychology Study?

• Effects of Social Variables and Cognitions on Individual Behavior and Social Interaction

• A groups' expectations regarding what is appropriate and acceptable for it's members' attitudes and behavior

• The Asch Effect

• Conformity

What is Social Context?

• The environment, circumstances, and relationships in which an individual or group exists and interacts with others.
• The process of making friends on social media.
• The study of social media platforms.
• The way people dress in a particular society.

What are the Three major themes of Social Psychology

• Physical influence, physical cognition, and physical relations
• Emotional influence, emotional cognition, and emotional relations
• Individual influence, individual cognition, and individual relations
• The Power of Social Situations, Subjective Social Reality, and The Promotion of Human Condition

What two factors do people's behaviors depend on?

• Luck and destiny
• Conformity and Attitude

• Nature and nurture
• Situationism and Dispositionism

What is a Social Role?

• A form of social media
• One of several socially defined patterns of behavior that are expected persons in a given setting or group

• Something that a person is assigned to , to perform certain tasks in a group

• A type of social gathering

What is a Social Norm

• The tendency for people to adapt their behaviors, attitudes, and opinions to fit the actions of other members in a group.

• A groups' expectations regarding what is appropriate and acceptable for its members' attitudes and behaviors in given situations

• A legal requirement enforced by the government
• A widely accepted behavior or rule within a society

What at 4 problems social pressure can cause? (listed in the notes)

• Blind Obedience , Prejudice, Peer Pressure, and conformity

• Prejudice, Discrimination, Blind Obedience and Violence

• Confidence, motivation, high self-esteem, and conformity
• Fear, sadness, low self-esteem, and individuality

What is Normative Social Influence?

• The influence of other people that leads us to conform in order to be disliked and rejected by them.
• The influence of other people that leads us to rebel against their opinions and actions.
• The influence of other people that leads us to conform in order to be hated or disliked by them.

• The influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval by a group.

What is Conformity?

• Ignoring group norms and expectations.
• Adapting attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to personal preferences.
• The tendency for people to adapt their behaviors, attitudes and opinions to fit actions of other members of a group.

• Rejecting attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of the group.

What is the Asch Effect?

• A psychological phenomenon which a group majority influences individual judgements

• A psychological phenomenon where individuals resist conforming to the majority opinion
• A psychological phenomenon where individuals conform to their own opinion
• A psychological phenomenon where individuals conform to the minority opinion