Ch. 13 Social Psychology

reduced feeling of personal responsibility in the presence of others

More people = less responsibility

individuals become less productive in groups

E.g. group projects in school

error of assuming that no one in group percieves things as we do.

"It must just be me"

happens when groups of people fail to aid someone in obvious need.

a way to guard against cult-like thinking. Involves introducing an idea as valid and then debunking it.

adherence to instructions from higher authority

emphasis on group unanimity at the expense of critical thinking and sound decision making

CULTS

tendency to engage in uncharacteristic behavior when stripped of usual identity

(stanford prison study)

tendency to alter behavior as a result of group pressure

we seek to evaluate our beliefs, atitudes and abilites by comparing ourselves with others

tendency to overestimate the impact of internal factors on other peoples behavior

castro thing

occur when we attribute an individuals behavior to his/her circumstances or other conditions

occur when we assign causes to specific characteristics of an individual

process of assigning causes to behavior

disruption of difficlut tasks in presence of others

GOLFFFF!!!

enhancement of tasks elicited by mere presence of others

track and field?

biologically based need for interpersonal connections

A trait reflecting the process of comparing beliefs to behaviors

mental distress resulting from two conflicting thoughts or beliefs

Our attitudes are built on our won observations of behaviors

We're lying about our changed attitudes to maintain others perception of us

make a small request before making a bigger one

make unreasonably large request before making a reasonable smal request that we were really hoping for

Obtain an agreement, then change the deal

making assumptions about a person, group of people or situation before evaluating evidence

negative behavior towards members of a group other then your own

evolutionarily adaptive trait based on distrust of the unfamiliar

favor individuals inside our group relative to those outside

belief that people outsied the group are all highly similar

belief (positive or negative) about the characteristics of a group that is applied to most of the individual members of the group

attributing behavior of entire groups to their dispositions

deep need to believe that the world is fair