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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Group Dynamics, Attribution, and Interpersonal Perception GROUPS ATTRIBUTION THEORY

US AND THEM TAKING THE BLAME is th’e study of how people interact People tend to explain their own behaviors and those of with each other. Some interaction occurs one on one, others in predictable ways. Attribution is the while some takes place in groups. placement of responsibility for behaviors on internal disposition or external situations. The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to infer that others’ actions reflect their dispositions Social faciliation more so than their situations. Alternatively, people tend to explain negative occurrences in their lives based on • Improved performance of well- situational factors rather than internal causes, while successes are attributed to oneself; this tendency is learned tasks in the presence of known as the self-serving bias. others According to the just-world bias, good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. Most people would like to believe that victims deserve Social loafing whatever happened to them and that they themselves can avoid misfortune by being a good person. • Tendency to exert less effort on Sometimes, making attributions can impact future a group task than if one were behaviors. When one person expects another to achieve working alone or fail, that person is likely to fulfill those expectations. This is known as a self-fulfilling prophecy. People often overestimate the number of other people who share their views. This is known as the false- consensus effect. • Strengthening of the dominant INTERPERSONAL PERCEPTION opinion in a group through the course of discussion GETTING TO KNOW ALL ABOUT YOU Interpersonal attraction is based on a variety of factors, from physical appearance to background. People find Deindividuation out about each other through self-disclosure, the process of sharing personal details. Mutual liking, • Abandonment of self-awareness frequent contact, and similar interests further the as an anonymous member of a attraction. People are group attracted to others Similarity who have similar interests and G ro u pt hi n k attitudes •The mere exposure effect • Members of a group agree in explains how Proximity people tend to like order to preserve group harmony those whom they are around frequently

Reciprocal People usually like iking others who like them AP Psychology Cram Kit I 49 DEMIDEC~

CRAM QUIZ Group Dynamics, Attribution, and Interpersonal Perception

QUESTION 1 QUESTION 5 A cyclist performs better during a race with others than The tendency to blame other peoples’ behaviors on their when she races against the clock by herself. This is best internal dispositions is known as the explained by (A) self-serving bias (A) social facilitation (B) fundamental attribution error (B) social loafing (C) false-consensus effect (C) deindividuation (D)just-world bias (D) self-fulfilling prophecies (E) self-fulfilling prophecy (E) self-serving biases QUESTION 2 QUESTION 6 Joe is working on a group project and finds himself doing The tendency to believe that a person with one positive all the work while the other members of his group slack trait has other positive traits is known as the off. Which theory of group dynamics does this behavior (A) just-world bias exemplify? (B) fundamental attribution error (A) social facilitation (C) mere exposure effect (B) social loafing (D) halo effect (C) deindividuation (E) reciprocal liking effect (D)social inhibition (E) group polarization QUESTION 3 QUESTION 7 Before attending a meeting, Tony says that he is Jennifer begins a new job and is somewhat attracted to vehemently against his employer’s new budget plan. At her colleague in the cubicle next to her. She sees him the meeting, though, everybody else seems content with every day, and her attraction increases. This can most the plan. Tony does not want to cause any problems, so likely be attributed to he agrees with the budget. What theory of group (A) the mere exposure effect dynamics does this behavior exemplify? (B) the halo effect (A) social loafing (C) similarity (B) false-consensus effect (D) physical attractiveness (C) deindividuation (E) reciprocal liking (D) social inhibition (E) groupthink QUESTION 4 QUESTION 8

People often misjudge the extent to which others agree Which of the following researchers coined the term with their ideas. This is known as the “groupthink”? (A) self-serving bias (A) Latane (B) fundamental attribution error (B) Darley (C) false-consensus effect (C) Bandura (D)just-world bias (D)Sherif (E) self-fulfilling prophecy (E) Janis

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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Attitudes and Antisocial/Prosocial Behavior

ATTITUDES AND AGGRESSION AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR

GETTING AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT HATE ME TODAY HATE ME TOMORROW Attitudes are thoughts and feelings about stimuli such Aggression is behavior intended to hurt someone. as people, places, and events. They are conditioned to be positive or negative based on prior experiences. Attitudes can be changed through persuasion. Instrumental Hostile aggression Central Route Peripheral aggression is used is usually impulsive, emotional, and • Process Route to gain or achieve something lacking a clear message • Evaluate purpose content characteristics •Just the facts of the message communicator

The frustration-aggression hypothesis suggests that Pe rs ua S iOfl people who feel frustrated are more likely to behave aggressively. Aggression may also be an adaptive response, or it may result from observing aggressive models.

Features of the message that may increase ALTRUISM AND PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR persuasiveness: Frequent repetition HELP! I NEED SOMEBODY Fear-inducing Altruism is a selfless sacrifice—help given without • For an uninformed audience, a single-sided personal gain. message Bystander intervention is the influence of nearby • For an informed audience, acknowledgement of people on the likelihood of helping. This was exemplified opposing arguments in the case of Kitty Genovese, a New Yorker who was stabbed to death outside her apartment complex while Features of the communicator that may increase neighbors heard her scream. No one helped her because persuasiveness: each person assumed that somebody else was already • Attractive helping. This phenomenon is called diffusion of • Famous responsibility, the more people around when help is needed, the less each person feels responsible to help. • Knowledgeable • Likeable , PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION • Trustworthy Features of an easily persuaded audience: REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE • Low self-esteem •Prototypes of people based on common attributes of group members • Low educational level •Useful for quick categorization but harmful when assumptions are false

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE Pre-judging of groups of people Negative attitude exists without evidence Cognitive dissonance results from a conflict •Can result from overapplication of stereotypes between attitudes and behaviors. People typically I change one or the other in order to achieve consistency and relieve tension. Leon Festinger Acting on prejudice by treating members of a found that people are more likely to change their stereotyped group differently attitudes to match their behaviors than vice versa. •Prejudice attitude; discrimination = behavior AP Psychology Cram Kit I 51 DEMIDEC~

CRAM QUIZ Attitudes and Antisocial/Prosocial Behavior

QUESTION 1 QUESTION 5 Which of the following individuals would likely be Unfriendly Inn refuses to serve Asian customers. This easiest to persuade? policy is an example of (A) a graduate student with low self-esteem (A) stereotyping (B) a doctor with high self-esteem (B) prejudice (C) a high school dropout with low self-esteem (C) discrimination (D) a college student with low self-esteem (D) aggression (E) a high school graduate with high self-esteem (E) prosocial behavior

QUESTION 2 QUESTION 6 Leon Festinger asked subjects to perform a boring task According to the contact hypothesis, people are most and tell other subjects the task was enjoyable. likely to reduce stereotypes if they Participants were paid either $1 or $20 for lying. Those (A) list positive attributes of members of other groups with less motivation to lie were more likely to say they (B) trade places with members of other groups actually enjoyed the task. What caused this reaction? (C) work toward a common goal with members of (A) cognitive dissonance other groups (B) peripheral persuasion (D) physically fight members of other groups (C) bystander intervention (E) spend time with members of other groups (D)foot-in-the-door phenomenon (E) pluralistic ignorance QUESTION 3 QUESTION 7 An old lady drops a bag of groceries while carrying them A fire alarm goes off in a classroom. All the students to her car. Though there are many people around, look around at each other, see that nobody else is nobody offers to help. This is likely the result of moving, and decide to stay seated. This behavior is an (A) dehumanization example of (B) altruism (A) pluralistic ignorance (C) prejudice (B) cognitive dissonance (D) diffusion of responsibility (C) diffusion of responsibility (E) social loafing (D) bystander intervention (E) peripheral persuasion QUESTION 4 QUESTION 8

Which of the following is NOT an example of An advertisement does not provide about a instrumental aggression? product, instead trying to sell it through attractive models and flashy graphics. What does this ad (A) Katie pushes Mindy out of line so she can get exemplify? lunch first. (B) Roy punches Eric when Eric calls him a bad name. (A) door-in-the-face phenomenon (C) Mike shoves Jeri so he can steal her toy. (B) peripheral persuasion (D) Russ hits Phil’s car in order to get to a parking (C) cognitive dissonance space first. (D) central persuasion (E) Brian mugs Ed in order to steal his wallet. (E) pluralistic ignorance ANSWERS DEMIDEC AP Psychology Cram Kit I 52

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY , , and Obedience

OBEDIENCE COMPLIANCE

SHOCKING DEMANDS DEATH OF A SALESMAN “We willpay you $4.00 for 1 hour ofyour time. Compliance is acting on someone else’s request, even Persons needed for a study ofmemory.” if it goes against your own self-interest.

— Milgram’s advertisement for participants Strategies for Eliciting Compliance

T [010-rn Foot-in-the- Door-in-the- Norms of door face reciprocity

Tendency to agree to a Tendency to Tendency to large request agree to a do after smaller something agreeing to a request after for someone related small turning down if he does hffp.//en. wiki;oed/a.org/wiki/File:Mf/gram Experiment_ v2.png one a larger one somethingfor you Stanley Milgram recruited approximately 500 people to participate in a study of obedience at Yale University in 1974. The experimenter (E, in illustration above) told the CONFORMITY teacher (T, the research participant), to give electric shocks to a learner (L) when the learner performed ONE AND THE SAME poorly on a task. The participant believed that the If you have ever been to middle school (or high school, learner was receiving actual shocks, though the learner for that matter), you probably know a great deal about was really a confederate who played pre-recorded conformity. Conformity is a change in one’s behavior screaming sounds. The experimenter instructed the in order to match other group members. Groups of teacher to continue giving increasingly painful shocks, three or more members can elicit changes in behavior, despite the protests of the learner. The majority of particularly when members appear to be cohesive and participants obeyed the experimenter. unanimous in their opinions. The more authority the participant believed the experimenter had, the more likely the participant was to continue shocking the learner—participants were thus SOLOMON ASCH more likely to continue if they thought the experimenter was a professor, rather than a graduate student. When Asch asked participants to take part in a study participants saw other confederates refuse to continue about perceptual judgment the shocks, however, the participant was less likely to Participants were put into continue shocking the learner. Obedience to the groups of confederates and experimenter’s instructions also decreased when the asked to match the lengths of participant could see the learners, rather than only two lines in different groups hearing them. (see illustration at right) ABC • Group members answered one htfp.//en. wikipedia. This experiment provides extremely interesting org/wik,/Fi/e.-Asch_ information about the nature of obedience, though it at a time experiment.png would likely never be permitted by an Institutional • The answer should have been Review Board (IRB) today. Research participants were obvious, but confederates purposely answered later told that the shocks were faked, but the realization incorrectly that participants could have killed the learner had the • Participants usually agreed with group members, situation been real was naturally quite disturbing to even though they knew the answer was wrong those involved. AP Psychology Cram Kit I 53 DEMIDEC~

CRAM QUIZ Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience

QUESTION 1 QUESTION 5 Which of the following factors was NOT correlated with A wildlife foundation sends you an adorable plush likelihood of conforming to a group in Asch’s conformity dolphin for free, along with a letter requesting a experiments? donation. You decide to send them $10 since the (A) gender foundation gave you a free gift. This is an example of the (B) age (A) door-in-the-face approach (C) social status (B) foot-in-the-door approach (D)group cohesiveness (C) norms of reciprocity (E) group unanimity (D) bargaining approach (E) norms of social influence QUESTION 2 QUESTION 6 A girl scout tries to sell a box of cookies for $10 but is A false participant used by a researcher to elicit turned down. She then offers the box for $5 and responses from actual research participants is known as successfully sells the cookies. This is an example of the a(n) (A) door-in-the-face approach (A) learner (B) foot-in-the-door approach (B) modeler (C) norms of reciprocity (C) persuader (D) bargaining approach (D) faker (E) norms of social influence (E) confederate

QUESTION 3 QUESTION 7 Stanley Milgram’s electric shock experiment studied How many people (other than the participant) are (A) aggression needed in order for conformity to occur? (B) compliance (A)two (C) discrimination (B) three (D) obedience (C) four (E) conformity (D)five (E) six

QUESTION 4 QUESTION 8

In Solomon Asch’s conformity experiments, participants People are most likely to obey someone who is were asked to make judgments about (A) friendly (A) moral values (B) attractive (B) fashion choices (C) rude (C) perceptual pairings (D) authoritative (D) accuracy of trivia knowledge (E) intelligent (E) pain level thresholds

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