Unit 8 Reading Guide Social Psychology Textbook Unit 14: Modules 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 Module Summary (Complete the Module Summaries after reading the module.) Module 74: Explain attribution, attitudes, and actions. Module 75: What is conformity and obedience? Module 76: What is group behavior? Module 77: How can prejudice and discrimination be defined? Module 78: What is aggression? Module 79: What is attraction? Module 80: Explain altruism, conflict, and peacemaking. Module 74: Explain attribution, attitudes, and actions. I. What do social psychologists study? How do we tend to explain others’ behavior and our own? A. What is the fundamental attribution error? 1. What affects our attributions? 2. How do our attributions matter? II. How do our attitudes and actions interact? Key Terms Social Psychology Attribution Theory Fundamental Attribution Error Attitudes Peripheral Route Persuasion Central Route Persuasion Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon Unit 8 Reading Guide Social Psychology Textbook Unit 14: Modules 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 Role Cognitive Dissonance Theory Module 75: What is conformity and obedience? I. What is social contagion? How do conformity experiments reveal the power of social influence? A. What is social contagion? B. What is conformity and social norms? II. What do Milgram’s obedience experiments teach us about the power of social influence? III. What do social influence studies teach us about ourselves and the power we have as individuals? Key Terms Norms Conformity Normative Social Influence Informational Social Influence Module 76: What is group behavior? I. How does the presence of others influence our actions via social facilitation, social loafing, and deindividuation? A. What is social facilitation? B. What is social loafing? C. What is deindividuation? II. How does group interaction enable group polarization? III. What role does the Internet play in group polarization? IV. How does group interaction enable groupthink? V. How does culture affect our behavior? A. What are variations across cultures? B. What are variations that change over time? Unit 8 Reading Guide Social Psychology Textbook Unit 14: Modules 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 Key Terms Social Facilitation Social Loafing Deindividuation Group Polarization Groupthink Culture Module 77: How can prejudice and discrimination be defined? I. What is prejudice? How does explicit and implicit prejudice differ? A. What is explicit and implicit prejudice? II. What groups are frequent targets of prejudice? A. What is racial and ethnic prejudice? B. What is gender prejudice? C. What is LGBTQ+ prejudice? D. What is belief systems prejudice? III. What are some social, emotional, and cognitive roots of prejudice? What are some ways to eliminate prejudice? A. What are social inequalities and divisions? B. Explain negative emotions. C. What are cognitive shortcuts? 1. Remembering vivid cases 2. Victim blaming Key Terms Prejudice Stereotypes Discriminate Just-world Phenomenon Ingroup Outgroup Ingroup Bias Unit 8 Reading Guide Social Psychology Textbook Unit 14: Modules 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 Scapegoat Theory Other-race Effect Module 78: What is aggression? I. How does psychology’s definition of aggression differ from everyday usage? What are biological factors that make us more prone to hurt one another? A. What is the biology of aggression? 1. What are genetic influences? 2. What are neural influences? 3. What are biochemical influences? II. Explain the psychological and social-cultural triggers of aggression. A. What are aversive events? B. How can reinforcement, modeling, and self-control be used? C. What are media models for violence? D. Do violent video games teach social scripts for violence? Key Terms Aggression Frustration-aggression Principle Social Scripts Module 79: What is attraction? I. Why do we befriend/fall in love with some people and not others? A. What is proximity? B. What is modern matchmaking? C. What is physical attractiveness? II. How does romantic love change over time? A. How is passionate love defined? B. How is companionate love defined? Key Terms Mere Exposure Effect Passionate Love Companionate Love Equity Self-disclosure Unit 8 Reading Guide Social Psychology Textbook Unit 14: Modules 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 Module 80: Explain altruism, conflict, and peacemaking. I. What is the bystander intervention? II. What is conflict and peacemaking? A. What are social traps? B. What are enemy perceptions? III. How can one promote peace? A. What is contact? B. What is cooperation? C. What is communication? D. What is conciliation? Key Terms Altruism Bystander Effect Social Exchange Theory Conflict Social Traps Mirror-image perceptions Self-fulfilling prophecies Subordinate goals GRIT
