PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Loafing, Cockroach, Implicit Attitude
27 Apr 2018
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Chapter 8 – Social Psychology
What is Social Psychology?
- Study of how individuals thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by other people.
- 4 key components:
1. Social Interpretation – influenced by others. Any situation where someone is affected in
anyway by other people, even if this presence of other people is only imagined, is
relevant to social psychology
2. ABCs – thoughts, feelings and behaviours, affect (feelings), cognitions(thoughts &
beliefs), behaviour
3. Point of View – idiiduals’ perspetie. “oial Costruals ho idiiduals persoall
interpret or perceive a social situation)
Fundamental Attribution error
▪ Attribution effect – tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal
harateristispersoalit to eplai soeoe else’s ehaior i a gie
situatio rather tha osiderig the situatio’s eteral fators
▪ Looking at others behaviour, we overestimate impact of dispositional
influences, underestimates impact of situational influences. We do the opposite
for our behaviour.
Social desirability – attitudes that mirror what we think others desire in a person
Implicit attitude - an attitude of which the person is unaware
4. Scientific study – empirical evidence before we make conclusions about how the social
world works
▪ Norms – social rules about how members of a society are expected to act.
Provides order and predictability
▪ Reason for helping cause of altruism – self-sacrificing behaviour carried out for
the benefit of others
▪ Reasons for not helping cause of bystander effect(apathy) – the more people
present, the less likely any one person will attempt to help
• Diffusion of responsibility – less likely to help in a large group cause
responsibility is shared
Group action: social facilitation – presence of others can help performance
- Cockroach maze – went through simple or complicated maze, 4 other cockroaches watching or
not, the more complicated the maze was, the more cockroach audience
Group action: social loafing
- Social loafing : people put less effort when working in a group, compared to working by
themselves.
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