PSYC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Steven Pinker, Bad Biology, Deindividuation
1 May 2018
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Chapter 13- Social Psychology
- Social Psychology-:The study of the causes and consequences of sociality
- Aggression: Behaviour with the purpose of harming
- Frustration- Aggression Hypothesis: A principle stating that animals aggress when their
goals are thwarted.
- Connection etee aggresses eery tie they feel ad
- Biology and Aggression
- Testosteroe does’t cause aggression, also makes people more sensitive to
provocation and less sensitive to provocation.
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- Culture and aggression
- Psychologist Steven Pinker kinder and gentler.
- People learn by example, which is why some researchers believe that watching violent
television shows and playing violet video games can make people more aggressive and
less cooperative.
- Cooperation
- Is behaviour by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit
- The Prisoer’s Dilea: The prisoer’s dilea gae illustrates the eefits ad osts
of cooperation. Players A and B receive benefits whose size depends on whether they
interpedently decide to cooperate. Mutual cooperation leads to a relatively moderate
benefit to both players, but if only one player cooperates, then the cooperator gets no
benefit and the no cooperator gets a large benefit. (512)
- Group: A collection of people who have something in common that distinguishes them
from others
- Prejudice: A positive or negative evaluation of another person based on his or her group
membership
- Discrimination: Positive or negative behaviour toward another person based on his or
her group membership.
- Common Knowledge Effect: The tendency for group discussions to focus on information
that all members share.
- Group Polarization: The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme
than any member would have made alone
- Groupthink: The tendency for groups to reach consensus in order to facilitate
interpersonal harmony.
- Deindividuation: A phenomenon that occurs when immersion in a group causes people
to become less aware of their individual values.
- Diffusion of Responsibility: The tendency for individuals to feel diminished
responsibility for their actions when they surrounded by others who are acting the same
way.
- Social Loafing: The tendency for people to expend less effort when in a group than
when alone.
- Bystander Intervention: The act of helping strangers in an emergency situation.
- Altruism: Behaviour that benefits another without benefitting oneself.
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