PSY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stanley Milgram, Small Favor, Social Loafing
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Attributions: dispositional- attributes person"s behavior to their personality, situational- attributes a person"s behavior to a situation/external factors. Social identity theory: proposes that self-esteem can be undermined by threats to personal identity. Fundamental attribution error (fae) and its influence on culture. Influences on behaviors: normative influence- influencing by social norms, informative- influence based on information. Stanley milgram: experiment on obedience, people will change because of authority. Foot-in-the-door phenomenon: ask a small favor, if they comply it will lead up to a large favor they will comply to. Catharsis hypothesis: release of pent-up emotions, released through acting out emotions, fantasizing, or sexual violence. Social loafing and facilitation: loafing- ex tug of war, the individual effort is reduced when they work in groups as compared to individual work, facilitation- performance is increased with an audience, ex. James-lane theory of emotion: automatic arousal leads to conscious experience of fear, ex.
