Module 19 and 20 Psychology

Overview

• Platform: Blooket
• Activity: 55 Questions related to Psychology
• Modules: 19 and 20

Key Topics Covered

Social Psychology

• Social Psychology
• Attribution Theory: Understanding how people explain others' behaviors
  • Situational Disposition
  • Dispositional Attribution
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Self-Serving Bias

Attitudes and Behavior

• Attitude
• Attitudes Affecting Actions
• Actions Affecting Attitudes
• Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon: The tendency for people to comply with a large request if they have first agreed to a small request

Theories and Phenomena

• Role and Role Playing: Influences on behavior
  • Philip Zimbardo: Known for the Stanford prison experiment
• Cognitive Dissonance Theory: Discomfort from holding conflicting beliefs
• Conformity: Adjusting behavior to align with the group
  • Solomon Asch: Conducted conformity experiments
  • Factors Increasing Conformity
• Obedience: Compliance with authority
  • Stanley Milgram: Famous for obedience studies

Group Dynamics

• Social Facilitation: Improved performance in the presence of others
• Social Loafing: Reduced effort in a group setting
• Deindividuation: Loss of self-awareness in group situations
• Group Polarization: Strengthening of group views
• Groupthink: Desire for harmony in a group leading to irrational decisions
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• Minority Influence: Minority groups affecting change in the majority

Interpersonal Relationships

• Attraction
  • Mere Exposure Effect: Increased liking with repeated exposure
  • Physical Attractiveness
  • Similarity
• Types of Love
  • Passionate Love
  • Companionate Love
• Equity: Fairness in relationships
• Self-Disclosure: Sharing personal information

Altruism and Helping Behavior

• Altruism: Selfless concern for others
  • John Darley/Bibb Latane: Researchers in the field
• Bystander Effect: As the number of witnesses increases, the likelihood of helping decreases
  • Kitty Genovese: Case that increased research in this area
• Factors Increasing Bystander Intervention

Prejudice and Discrimination

• Prejudice
• Stereotype
• Discrimination
• In Group vs Outgroup
  • Ingroup Bias
• Scapegoat Theory: Blaming others for personal problems
• Categorization
• Other-Race Effect: Tendency to recognize faces of one's own race more easily
• Just-World Phenomenon: Belief that the world is fair

Aggression

• Aggression
  • Genetic and Neural Influences
  • Biochemistry Explanations
  • Learned Aggression
• Superordinate Goals: Shared goals that require cooperation

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