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1. Social psycholo- the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and
gy behaviors are influenced by other people.
2. Philosophy works with thoughts and ideas of how people interact. so-
cial psychology takes ideas which originated from philo-
sophical ideas and applies scientific method.
3. Sociology most similar to social psychology, just looking at the in-
dividual from a group. How each individual and group
related to each other.
4. Anthropology used to describe a very specific group of people/ culture/
experience. but through social psychology you see how it
fits in a broader world view.
5. Hindsight bias once you know the answer to something, you erase the
lack of not knowing something from your perspective.
6. Norman Triplett most recognized as the first social psychology experi-
(1890s) ment. studied how cyclists pedaled faster with other than
when they did alone, created an experiment looking at
competition. he had children reel fishing line alone (slow-
er) versus in a group (faster). having people alone caused
individuals to work faster.
7. Max Ringlemann wanted to understand the difference between Oxen labor
(1880s or 1913) and Human labor. he brought people to a complicated
contraption where they had to pull a rope on their own
and in a group. found the opposite of Triplett. people pulled
harder by themselves than in a group.
8. Behaviorism theoretical approach that seeks to explain human be-
havior in terms of learning principals like reward and
punishment without reference to inner states, thoughts,
or feelings.
9. affect (how people feel inside), behavior (what people do),
and cognition (what people think about).
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ABC Triad: Af-
fect, Behavior,
and Cognition
10. Clinical psychol- branch of psychology that focuses on behavior disorders
ogy and other forms of mental illness, and how to treat them.
focusing on "abnormal" behavior.
11. Cognitive psy- the study of thought processes, like how memory works
chology and what people notice.
12. Social loafing when people slack off in a group project, your efforts are
lost in a group.
13. Hitler had huge influence on social psychology. first time where
such a high level of atrocity happened on a global scale.
how could humans do something so evil? the Milgram ex-
periment. 1.) more likely to conform to your in-group than
an out-group. 2.) mass exodus of psychologists fleeing
from Europe. collaboration of ideas between European
psychologists and those in the United States.
14. Gordon Allport father of modern social psychology. he made social psy-
(1940-60s) chology its own separate separate school of thought.
different from behaviorism and psychoanalysis. his are of
specific interest: stereotypes.
15. Explosion in the increase of people studying it and ideas coming across
60s in modern culture. how do different groups interact with
each other? behaviorism vs. cognition.
16. Intergration of our emotional components focus on others. others can be
emotion, motiva- hugely motivating or demotivating.
tion, and cogni-
tion
17. Applied research research that focuses on solving particular problems.
18. Basic research
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research that focuses on a general understanding of
basic principles that can be applied to many different
problems.
19. Genes and evolu- 1990s. evolutionary psychology gained a foot hold.
tions
20. Culture biggest change now. started looking at how we apply
things based on the culture of individuals. individuals have
varying perspectives based on culture that cause varying
responses
21. Social influence how others affect/influence/change us (general: inter-
nal/external).
22. Social thinking how we think about ourselves and others. ex.) compari-
sions we make about ourselves and others.
23. Social behavior how do others both those in our immediate context and
imagined other change our behavior (specific). ex.) effect
from past having influence on now.
24. Social achieve- internal or external, how we feel about ourselves when
ment we complete something like a goal. ex.) gaining status,
gaining material goods, or putting someone down, bring-
ing yourself up.
25. Person-situation a bidirectional relationship between an individual and the
interaction situation. your context and yourself interact can change
the way you respond to your environment. external fac-
tors impacting your environment. ex.) going to discussion
pissed off, becoming more pissed off.
26. Theory a scientific explanation that intends to connect and ex-
plain observations.
27. Sociocultural we can understand a person's social psychology best by
perspective understanding their group psychology. ex.) Edward Ross
(1908): philosopher > psychologist.
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