Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38



Social Thinking: Crash Course Psychology #37Name: _________________________________________ Hour: __________ Date: _________________Social psychology examines how we think about, influence, and______________ to one another in certain conditions. And it's better equipped to answer this question about people doing horrible things.Overestimating the forces of personality while underestimating the power of the situation is called the Fundamental ____________ Error. And as you can imagine, making this kind of error can really end up warping your opinion of another person and lead to false snap judgments. In the late 1970s and 80s, psychologist Richard Petty and John Cacioppo developed a duel process theory of understanding how persuasion works. ?The first part of their model is known as the Central Route ________________ and it involves calling on basic thinking and reasoning to convince people.Peripheral Route Persuasion happens more readily when you're not paying a ton of ______________ which is why billboards and television ads can be scarily effective. There's plenty of experimental evidence that moral action really does strengthens moral convictions, just as amoral action ________________________Experiment.?In the Prison Experiment, how did they decide who was a guard or who was a prisoner? Prisoners started breaking down, others rebelled, and still other becoming passively resigned, as if they _____ _____________ to be treated badly The point is that the mismatch between what we do and who we think we are induces tension – Cognitive Dissonance – and that we tend to want to ________________ that tension. List and Explain 2 things you learned or found interesting in this video:Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38What is the name of the Yale University psychologist that began what would become one of social psychology's most famed and chilling experiments? _____________________________________In the end, Milgram's path-breaking work sheds some seriously harsh light on the enormous power of two of the key cornerstone topics of social psychology: social influence and_________________________.?Conformity describes how we adjust our behavior or thinking to follow the behavior or rules of the __________________ we belong to. Social psychologists have always been curious about the degree to which a person might follow or rebel against their group's social norms. The classic experiments of Milgram and Ash showed us that people conform for lots of different reasons, but they both underscored the power of situation in conformity - whether that situation elicits respect for authority, fear of being different, fear of rejection, or simply a desire for approval. This is known as ____________________________ social influence, the idea that we comply in order to fuel our need to be liked or belong.?Being part of a crowd can create a powerful combination of arousal and anonymity; it's part of what fuels riots and lynch mobs and _____________________ trolling. The less individual we feel, the more we're at the mercy of the experience of our _____________________, whether it's good or bad.?What is a term coined by social psychologist Irving Janis, to describe what happens when a group makes bad decisions because they're too caught up in the unique internal logic of their group?In the end, it's best to understand ourselves and our decisions as informed simultaneously by both individual and group factors, personality, and ______________________________. And don't get too freaked out about what people are capable of; I mean, just think back to Milgram's experimentYou also learned how normative social influence sways us, how social facilitation can make or break your performance and how social loafing makes people lazy in a group. And finally, we discussed how ___________________________ deindividuation, group polarization, and groupthink can be.??Prejudice & Discrimination: Crash Course Psychology #39What happened to Amadou Diallo, the 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea?Prejudice just means "________________________________." It's an unjustified, typically negative attitude towards an individual or group.?The former apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa, the Nazis' mass killing of Gypsies, Jewish people, and other groups, and centuries of bloodshed between Protestants and Catholics, are all extreme examples of violent bloodshed and ____________________Our tendency to unwittingly doctor our answers to questions like these is why we have the implicit __________________________ tests, or IAT. The test was implemented in the late 1990s to try to gauge implicit attitudes, identities, beliefs, and biases that people are unwilling or unable to report.?The core of the IAT test is your ______________________________. It test if you are faster at sorting when you're working with a stereotypical pairing than you are with counter-stereotypical pairings Prejudices can come up as a “why” of justifying social inequalities. This happens when people on both sides of the power and wealth spectrum start believing that people get what they deserve, and they deserve what they get. This is called the _______________________________ phenomenon.?History is littered with examples of how the us vs. them mentality has fueled violence in ____________________________, which is exactly what we'll be talking about next time.?Today, you learned about how prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination affect how we interact and _________________ to one another. You learned how prejudice can often be non-conscious and ________________________and how tools like the Implicit Associations Test help reveal and measure it. We also looked at the implications of the in-group-outgroup phenomenon, and how it can lead to strong in-group violence that often turns _______________________________.?Aggression V. Altruism: Crash Course Psychology #40In the Robber’s Cave Experiment the counselors were actually ___________________________________.In the Robber's Cave Experiment a Turkish American social psychologist Muzafer Sherif wanted to test something called Realistic ______________________Theory. ?He hypothesized that conflict happens when you combine negative prejudices with competition over resources, and the boys at Robber's Cave were well on their way to proving him right. ?While isolation and competition made enemies of the strangers, shared goals and cooperation turned enemies into ______________________________?Like a lot of behaviors we've talked about it, it seems to emerge from that familiar combination of biological factors, like genetic, neurological, and biochemical influences, and our _______________________________ and experience. Research on violence and criminality has also revealed a link between aggression and diminished activity in the frontal lobes, which play a vital role in ___________________________________. ?Psychological and cultural factors also play an important role, as does the power of the situation. ?For example, there's the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis, the simple idea that people become aggressive when they're ________________________________from reaching a goalThe bystander effect is a bit like the concept of social loafing that we talked about. ?If you're around other people, it's easier to think that someone else is going to pick up the slack or in this case, come to the ______________________________. ?When it comes to doing things for other people, we're always trying to maximize our personal rewards while minimizing our personal ____________________. ? In some ways, you might say that what fuels conflict is the opposite of altruism: _______________________. ?Social psychologists view conflict as any perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas. ?That could mean two nations fighting over a border, sparring religious or political groups, or you and your boo fighting over whose turn it is to do the dishes. ?So as long as there's self interest, there's gonna be conflict. ?But before you get all down on humanity, remember those Robber's Cave boys. ?They were ready to go full-on Lord of the Flies before shared goals forced them to cooperate and ultimately, make ________________________. ?The power of cooperation to make friends of former enemies is one of the most hopeful areas of psychological research. ?If greed and self-interest can destroy the world, perhaps _____________________________ can save it. ? ................
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