Transcript Social Psychology - Point Loma High School

Social Psychology
Cole Michael Edging
Michael Todter
Group Dynamics
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Group Structure: The network of roles,
communication pathways, and power in a group
Ex: The army or an athletic team
Group Cohesiveness: The degree of attraction
among group members or their commitment to
remaining in the group
Ex: Those who stick together; therefore causing them to stand or sit close
together, pay more attention to one another, and show more signs of
mutual affection
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Group Structure
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Group Cohesiveness
Attribution Processes
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One attribution process is Fundamental Attribution Error.
Fundamental Attribution Error: The tendency to attribute
the behavior of others to internal causes (personality,
likes, and so forth)
Ex in book: kid thinks Macy likes parties, but really she only goes because she plays
the tuba at them
Actor-Observer Bias: Making attributions of others
behaviors through internal causes, while attributing one’s
own behavior to external causes.
Ex: being late to something, and saying it was because you were held up from events
beyond your control.
Interpersonal Attraction
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Interpersonal Attraction: Social attraction
to another person.
Ex: interested in someone because of their personality, who are kind
and understanding, and who like us in return.
Conformity, Compliance, Obedience
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Conformity: Bringing one’s behavior into agreement or
harmony with norms or with the behavior of others in a
group.
Ex: Jumping off a cliff because everyone else is doing it.
Compliance: Bending to the requests of a person who
has little of no authority or other form of social power.
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Ex: listening to a student, who is taking over the class for a teacher.
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Obedience: Conformity to the demands of an authority.
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Ex: Taking notes when teacher tells the class to do so.
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Obedience
Conformity
Compliance
Attitudes
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Definition of attitude: a learned tendency
to respond to people, objects or
institutions in a positive or negative way
Attitude formation-attitudes are acquired
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Direct contact- personal experience with
object of attitude
Interaction with others- personal experience
with people holding a particular attitude
Attitude Change
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Persuasion-and deliberate attempt to change attitude or beliefs with
info and arguments
 Communicator-the person presenting argument/info
 Message-the content of communicator’s arguments or
presentation
 Audience- the person or group toward whom a persuasive
message is directed
Forced attitude change Brainwashing-engineered or forced attitude change involving a
captive audience
 Cults- group that professes great devotion to some person and
follows that person almost without question; cult members are
typically victimized by their leaders in carious ways
Organizational Behavior
Aggression
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Aggression-any action carried out with the
intention of harming another person
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Instincts
Biological basis-low blood sugar, allergies, specific
brain injuries, diseases, higher hormone levels
Frustration-leads to aggression.
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Aversive stimuli-any stimulus that produces discomfort or
displeasure
Aggression cues- stimuli or signals that are associated with
aggression and that tend to elicit it
Social learning-combines learning principles with cognitive
processes, socialization, and modeling to explain behavior
Antisocial Behavior
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Antisocial personality- a person who lacks
a conscience; is emotionally shallow,
impulsive, selfish; and tends to manipulate
others
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Sometimes called
Sociopaths
 Psychopaths
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Seem to be incapable of having deep feelings
such as guilt, shame, fear, loyalty, love