Social Psychology

the study of how individual or group behavior is influenced by the presence and behavior of others

• social psychology
• developmental psychology
• cognitive psychology
• behavioral psychology

the act of changing your behaviors in order to fit in or go along with the people around you

• conformity
• assimilation
• adaptation
• compliance

Who conducted several experiments in the 1950s to determine how people are affected by the thoughts and behaviors of other people

• Stanley Milgram
• Solomon Asch

occurs when the person is trying to be right and is looking to other people for information they don’t have

• Halo effect
• Social loafing
• Informational Influence

• Anchoring bias

a person conforms to specific behaviours to fit in and be accepted by a group

• Nonconformity
• Rebellion
• Uniformity
• Normative Influence

are unspoken rules about how people “should” behave in certain situations

• behavioral guidelines
• social norms
• moral standards
• cultural laws

Changing one’s behavior at the direct command of an authority figure (person with social power)

• Compliance
• Conformity
• Rebellion
• Obedience

• Involves a request

• Going along with someone of equal status (peers)

• Involves imitation

• Relies on the need to be socially accepted

• Conformity

• Obedience

• Involves an order

• Obeying someone of higher status

• Doesn’t involve imitation

• Relies on social power

• Conformity

• Obedience

Who designed one of the more famous experiments in the history of psychology on obedience?

• Stanley Milgram
• Philip Zimbardo
• Ivan Pavlov
• Sigmund Freud