Review: Social Psychology
Friday, February 11
This part of the course focuses on how individuals relate to one another in social situations. Social psychologists study social attitudes,
social influence, and other social phenomena.
 Apply attribution theory to explain motives.
 Describe the structure and function of different kinds of group behavior.
 Explain how individuals respond to expectations of others, including groupthink, conformity, and obedience to authority.
 Discuss attitudes and how they change.
 Predict the impact of the presence of others on individual behavior.
 Describe processes that contribute to differential treatment of group members.
 Articulate the impact of social and cultural categories on self-concept and relations with others.
 Anticipate the impact of behavior on a self-fulfilling prophecy.
 Describe the variables that contribute to altruism, aggression, and attraction.
 Discuss attitude formation and change, including persuasion strategies and cognitive dissonance.
 Identify important figures in social psychology.
Myers: Chapter 18
I. Social Psychology
A. Person or Situation
1. Attribution Theory
a. Dispositional v. Situational
Attribution
2. Fundamental Attribution Error
3. Effects of Attribution
4. Experiments & Results
a. Williams College Experiment
b. Rosenthal Effect
c. Bennington College
B. Attitudes & Actions
1. Attitudes affect Actions
2. Actions affect Attitudes
3. Food-in-the-Door Phenomenon
4. Role-Playing
5. Cognitive Dissonance
C. Social Influence
1. Conformity & Obedience
d. Chameleon Effect
e. Mood Linkage
f. Asch’s Conformity Experiment &
Group Pressure
i.
Normative Social Influence
ii.
Informational Social
Influence
g. Milgram’s Obedience Experiment
h. The Hawthorne Effect
i. Lessons Learned
2. Group Influence
a. Social Facilitation
b. Social Loafing
c. Deindividuation
d. Group Polarization
e. Groupthink
f. Power of Individuals
D. Prejudice
1. Definitions
a. Prejudice
b. Stereotypes
c. Discrimination
2. Studies & Statistics
3. Roots of Prejudice
a. Inequality
b. Ingroup v. Outgroup
i.
Social Identities
c. Emotions
i.
Scapegoat Theory
d. Cognition
i.
Categorization
ii.
iii.
iv.
E.
Vivd Cases
Just-world Phenomenon
Hindsight Bias
Aggression
1. Biology
a. Genetics
b. Neural Influences
c. Biochemical Influences
2. Aversive Events
a. Frustration-aggression Principle
b. Fight-or-Flight Reaction
c. Learned Aggression
d. Observing Aggression
e. Acquiring Social Scripts
f. Video Games & Violence
F. Conflict
1. Social Traps
a. Regulation-CommunicationAwareness
2. Enemy Perceptions & Mirror-image
Perceptions
G. Attraction
1. Proximity & Mere Exposure Effect
2. Physical Attractiveness
3. Similarity
4. Romantic v. Passionate Love
5. Companionate Love
a. Equity
b. Self-disclosure
H. Altruism
1. Bystander Intervention
a. Kitty Genovese
2. Norms
a. Social Exchange Theory
b. Reciprocity Norm
c. Social-responsibility Norm
I. Peacemaking
1. Cooperation
a. Superordinate Goals
2. Communication
3. Conciliation
People to Know
 Soloman Asch
 Leon Festinger
 Elaine Hatfield
 Fritz Heider
 Irving Janis
 Stanley Milgram
 Philip Zimbardo
Aggression: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Altruism: __________________________________________________________________________________________
Attitudes: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Attribution Theory: __________________________________________________________________________________
Blame-the-Victim Dynamic: ___________________________________________________________________________
Bystander Effect: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Chameleon Effect: __________________________________________________________________________________
Cognitive Dissonance: _______________________________________________________________________________
Companionate Love: ________________________________________________________________________________
Conciliation: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Conflict: __________________________________________________________________________________________
Conformity: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Deindividuation: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Discrimination: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Equity: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon: ________________________________________________________________________
Frustration-aggression Principle: _______________________________________________________________________
Fundamental Attribution Error: _________________________________________________________________________
GRIT: ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Group Polarization: _________________________________________________________________________________
Groupthink: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Hindsight Bias: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Influence: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Informational Social Influence: _________________________________________________________________________
Ingroup: __________________________________________________________________________________________
Just-World Phenomenon: _____________________________________________________________________________
Mere Exposure Effect: _______________________________________________________________________________
Mirror-image Perceptions: ____________________________________________________________________________
Mood Linkage: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Normative Social Influence: ___________________________________________________________________________
Obedience: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Outgroup: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Passionate Love: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Physical Attraction: __________________________________________________________________________________
Prejudice: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Reciprocity Norm: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Reward Theory of Attraction: __________________________________________________________________________
Scapegoat Theory: __________________________________________________________________________________
Self-disclosure: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Social Exchange Theory: _____________________________________________________________________________
Social Facilitation: __________________________________________________________________________________
Social Identity: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Social Loafing: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Social Psychology: __________________________________________________________________________________
Social Scripts:______________________________________________________________________________________
Social Traps: ______________________________________________________________________________________
Social-responsibility Norm:____________________________________________________________________________
Stanford Prison Experiment: __________________________________________________________________________
Stereotypes: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Superordinate Goals: ________________________________________________________________________________
Vivid Case Phenomenon: _____________________________________________________________________________
People to Know:
Solomon Asch: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Leon Festinger: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Kitty Genovese: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Elaine Hatfield: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Fritz Heider: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Irving Janis: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Stanley Milgram: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Philip Zimbardo: ____________________________________________________________________________________