1 Psych100 review for final a WS 15 subsequent consequences 1 LEARNING motivations 1 Social Cognitive 1 SOCIOCULTURAL i Our thought feelings and behavior are determined by our experience expectation of ii Our thought feelings and behavior are function of our knowledge attitudes abilities and iii Our thoughts feelings and behavior are influenced by the EXPECTATIONS of others iv Our thoughts feelings and behavior are founded on patterns that maximized out reproductive potential over thousands of years 1 Sociobiological v The clothes you choose to wear to class are based at least in large part on your desire to FIT IN with the expectation of those around you whats popular attractive 1 SOCIALCULTURAL vi When selecting between multiple brands of soda our choice is a function of our knowledge about the brands how positively we feel towards each brand and whether we are more motivated to save money or purchase what we believe is the highest quality product 1 Social Cognitive vii Across multiple cultures women tend to like men who are older and who have achieved some level of status or success 1 Sociobiological 1 LEARNING viii Boys behave more aggressive than girls and are often rewarded for playing rough sports ix How tasty the grasshopper was rated is the dependent variable x How the researcher treated the participant was the independent variable xi Random assignment controls for 1 Pre exisiting differences in the willingness to eat grasshoppers and individual difference in how much someone might naturally like or dislike the taste and texture xii Adjusting your behavior based on information that helps you make a correct decision xiii Adjusting your behavior based on what considered normal in order to fit in or avoid 1 INTERNALIZATION potential ridicule 1 CONFORMITY 1 COMPLIANCE xiv Adjusting your behavior because you ve been asked to do something and agreed to it xv In the Kitty Genovese example of the bystander effect people failed to respond in an emergency because of 1 DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY xvi In smoke filled room studies participants failed to respond to an emergency primarily because of 1 Informational Influence xvii Aschs experiment in which participants judged the length of lines demonstrated 1 NORMATIVE INFLUNCE xviii What did asch find 1 37 out of 50 people gave the confederated incorrect answers on at least one trial xix What did dasch find when he manipulated the size of the graph 1 Participants conformed to a group of 3 or 4 as readily as they did to a LARGER group xx What did Asch find when he manipulated the behavior of the groups 1 The amount of CONFORMITY decreased to 1 4th the amount if at least ONE CONFEDERATE gave the correct answer xxi Group polarization is the tendency for groups of people to 1 Start off with moderate attitudes and END UP WITH EXTREME ones xxii Group polarization can be explained according to 1 Both INFORMATIONAL AND NORMATIVE Influences xxiii Milgram found that 66 OF NORMAL ADULTS WOULD CONTINUE SHOCKing someone even though they believed the person may be unconscious or dead xxiv Freedman and fraser asked people to either sign a petition or place a small card in a window in their home about keeping California beautiful or supporting safe driving About two weeks later the same people were asked by a second person to put a large sign advocating safe driving in their front yard Many people who agreed to the first request now complied with the second far more intrusive request 1 FOOT in the DOOR technique xxv Bubufett asked student to volunteer to council juvenile delinquents for two hours a week for two years After their refusal they were asked to chaperone juvenile delinquents on a one day trip to the zoo 50 agreed to chaperone the trip to the zoo as compared to 17 of participants who only received the zoo request 1 DOOR in the FACE technique xxvi The fundamental attribution error is a tendency to prefer 1 INTERNAL ATTRIBUTIONS xxvii When making attributions for things that happened to you the self serving attribution bias would most likely result in 1 EXTERNAL attributions for negative events xxviii Which of the following is a clear application of Balance theory 1 A celebrity appearing in a commercial b Part 2 i In Festinger and carlsmiths landmark study 1 Those paid only 1 00 had a more positive attitude towards the boring task 2 Having to lie created cognitive dissonance 3 Receiving a large sum of money resolved cognitive dissonance 4 Changing ones potential attitude towards the task from negative to positive resolved the cognitive dissonance ii Aronson and mills had participants undergo some form of initiation in order to join a group They found that 1 Severe initiations created more cognitive dissonance which was resolved by increasing liking for the group iii The research supporting self perception theory demonstrates that 1 The brains assessment of attitudes can be influenced on a subconscious level by information form the body that suggests a positive or negative attitude iv An example of self handicapping would be 1 Choosing not to study well in advanced for your finall 2 Choosing to stay up late the night before the exam playing Call of Duty 3 Choosing to cheat on someone who ur afraid might break up with you v STEREOTYPE THREAT occurs when 1 A person is concerned that their performance might confirm a negative stereotype vi The study described in the video on stereotype threat demonstrated that 1 White student performed poorly when they believed they were taking a test on general athletic ability blk people same result but for General sports Strategy intelligence vii A self fulfilling prophecy involves of how they ll behave 1 Unintentionally influencing someone else s behavior because of your own expectation 2 Study with men and women speaking together over the phone SYNDER et al viii Research on helping behavior suggest that the number of people present and the perceived responsibility to provide help to someone in need is 1 NEGATIVELY COORELATED ix When unsure whether there is a true emergency we look to the behavior of others to help clarift they stimulus If they don t respond we assume its not an emergency 1 PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE x Measuring the time spent looking at something as a dependent variable tells us 1 Whether the baby has habituated to something 2 Whether the baby remembers seeing something 3 Whether the baby is surprised to see something Infant determinism refers to the 1 Incorrect idea that it is the early
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