Exam Flashcards Foundation of Social Psychology | Summary of all readings
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Course
Foundations of Social Psychology (400886RM)
Institution
Tilburg University (UVT)
Summary of all mandatory readings of the course that are also discussed during class. The file was established in a flash-card format to recap all important details to prepare for class or the final exam.
• MINIMAL GROUP STUDIES (H. TAIFEL)
• A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS TO EXPLORE SOCIAL COGNITIVE PROCESSES RELATED TO OBJECT
CATEGORISATION
• 2 GROUPS THAT WERE CREATED BASED ON IRRELEVANT CRITERION OR CHANCE HAVE TO ALLOCATE POI
TO ONE MEMBER OF THEIR GROUP AND ONE MEMBER OF THE OTHER GROUP
• THESE MINIMAL (GROUPING) CONDITIONS INDUCED IN-GROUP FAVOURITISM (MORE POINTS FOR MEM
OF OWN GROUP) → MERE CATEGORISATION EFFECT
• SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY = PART OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S SELF-CONCEPT IS DERIVED FROM
KNOWLEDGE OF GROUP MEMBERSHIP AND THE EMOTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE ATTACHED TO
MEMBERSHIP
• AIM: HOW CAN PEOPLE COME TO ADOPT AND BEHAVE IN TERMS OF SOCIAL IDENTITIES; THINKIN
OF ONESELF AS ‘WE’ INSTEAD OF ‘I’
, PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS
= HOW WE DEFINE OUR SOCIAL REALITY (WE VS. I)
1. SOCIAL CATEGORISATION
• CLUSTERING PEOPLE INTO GROUPS ACCORDING TO SHARED CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES
2. SOCIAL COMPARISON
• INTERPRETING AND VALUING CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES THROUGH COMPARISON (GOOD/BAD)
3. SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION
• REALISATION OF ONE’S INCLUSION IN A GROUP AND EXCLUSION OF OTHER GROUPS
• INCLUDES COGNITIVE AWARENESS OF MEMBERSHIP AND EMOTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
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