Psy 343 – Social Psychology

Study Outline – (Test 3)

1. Group Influence

1. Social Facilitation

1. Performance enhancement - Triplett
2. Performance decrement as well as enhancement

1. Explanations – evaluation apprehansion
2. Replications – human and animal

1. Zajonc – mere presence

1. arousal
2. dominant responses

1. Distraction Conflict

1. Social Loafing

1. Social Influence II

1. Conformity

1. Definition of Conformity
2. Social Norms
3. Asch’s Study of conformity
4. Normative and Informational Social Influence

1. Compliance

1. Definition
2. Foot in the door
3. Door in the face
4. Ingratiation
5. Other methods

1. Obedience

1. Milgram’s obedience to authority studies

1. how to decrease blind obedience

1. Obedience as a social norm – other contexts

1. Prosocial Behavior

1. Definitions

1. Narrow
2. Broad

1. Biological Challenge to Explain Altruism

1. Kin selection

1. Social Norms
2. When will we help?

1. 5 step sequence to helping
2. bystander effect - diffusion of responsibility
3. time pressure
4. moods and helping

1. Whom will we help

1. Gender
2. Similarity

1. Aggression

1. Problems with definitions

1. Action inflicting harm (?)
2. Intention to do harm (?)
3. Living organism (?)
4. Is all aggression equal (?) – are different forms of aggression so different that they are different things, obeying different principles ?

1. Theories of Aggression

1. Biological Theory

• instinct theory
• brain mechanisms for different forms of aggression

1. Situational Theory

• Frustration – Aggression
• Frustration vs deprivation

1. Social Learning and Aggression

• rewards
• observational learning

1. Influences on Aggression

1. Pain
2. Heat
3. Crowding
4. Media/ pornography

1. Reducing Aggression

1. Increasing contact
2. Catharsis