Download SI: March 12, 2012 Chapter 15 part 1 Part I: Warm

SI: March 12, 2012
Chapter 15 part 1
Part I: Warm-Up:
Social Psychology:
Attribution Theory:
Fundamental Attribution Error:
Attitude:
Central Route to Persuasion:
Peripheral Route to Persuasion:
Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon:
Role:
Cognitive Dissonance Theory:
Conformity:
Normative Social Influence:
Informational Social Influence:
Social Facilitation:
Social Loafing:
Deindividuation:
Group Polarization:
Groupthink:
Prejudice:
Stereotype:
Discrimination:
Just-World Phenomenon:
Ingroup:
Outgroup:
Ingroup Bias:
Scapegoat Theory:
Other-Race Effect:
Part II: Short Answer
Give a 1-4 sentence answer for the following questions.
Explain the difference between fundamental attribution error and attribution error. Give
some examples of dispositional attributions and situational attributions.
Give an example where you have fallen victim to foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
Describe the Stanford Prison Experiment.
What is the chameleon effect?
Why do we feel happier when we are around happy people, and sad around people who are
sad?
Explain Asch’s conformity experiments.
Conditions that strengthen conformity are:
Explain the difference between informational and normative social influence.
Describe Milgram’s experiment and what we can learn from it.
Describe a situation where you have experienced social loafing.
Effects of Group Interaction:
Group Polarization:
Groupthink:
Prejudice, Discrimination, Stereotypes:
Outgroup vs. Ingroup
Emotional and Cognitive Roots of Prejudice
Part IV: True/False
Choose the correct answer to the following multiple choice questions
True/False: Attitudes are especially likely to affect behavior when internal influences are minimal.
True/False: Attitudes can influence behavior.
True/False: The smaller the dissonance, the more motivated we are to find consistency.
True/False: Changing your behavior can change how you think about others.
True/False: In high school, when you wear the latest trends and make sure that you match the group
of people you want to belong to, you are being influences informationally.
True/False: A basketball player playing a basketball alone will tend to perform better than when
playing in front of a group of people.
True/False: Social control and personal control do not interact.
True/False: According to the just-world phenomenon, people tend to believe that the world is fair,
and people get what they deserve.
Part V: LOOK OVER THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR BOOK: