Social Influence Mechanisms: Conformity, Obedience and Group Behavior in Social Settings

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Psychology - Social Psychology

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What is the effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior?
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What are the two basic forms of social influence that include implicit and explicit expectations?
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What are rules that indicate how people are expected to behave in particular social situations?
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What is the tendency to blindly conform to the behaviors and beliefs of the people around you?
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What is the spontaneous distribution of ideas, attitudes, and behaviors among larger groups of people?
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What is it called when individuals voluntarily conform to group standards because they are uncertain about the correct answer or behavior?
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What type of conformity involves individuals publicly conforming to gain social acceptance and avoid rejection?
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Which experiment conducted at Stanford University demonstrated the power of social roles, social norms, and scripts?
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Which experiment measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience?
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What hypothesis suggests that increasing contact may reduce prejudice if certain conditions are met?
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What is the term for oversimplified and overgeneralized schema occurring when an individual assumes that everyone in a certain group has the same traits?
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What are emotion-centered judgments or evaluations about people based on their perceived membership in a particular group?
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What term describes unfair behaviors toward a particular group or group members based on a stereotype or prejudice?
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What are the categories we use to understand the world, organizing through labels and categories such as gender, religion, and country of origin?
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What is the idea that instinctively labeling or grouping other people in the environment arose for benefits in survival?
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What paradigm involves creating groups based on meaningless categories to study inter-group dynamics?
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What theory suggests our self-concept is composed of a personal identity and a social identity?
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What theory posits that gender differences result from the contrasting roles of men and women?
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What is the self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype?
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Can stereotypes ever be good, and what are the potential harms of treating positive stereotypes as reality?
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What term describes behaviors intended to harm others who do not wish to be harmed?
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What is an extreme form of aggression that has severe physical harm as its goal?
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What is a thoughtful, reason-based decision to harm others in order to gain resources such as territory, money, self-esteem, or social status?
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What is an impulsive, emotion-based reaction to perceived threats?
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What are the three types of microaggressions that include microinsults, microassaults, and microinvalidations?
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What is a culture where individuals perceive insults as a threat to their reputation for masculine courage, pride, and virtue?
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What are the values in a culture of honor that include masculine courage, pride in manhood, and socialization?
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What is the sociopsychological phenomenon where a person is less likely to take responsibility for action or inaction when others are present?
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What are the different types of helping behavior that include helping, prosocial, and altruistic behavior?
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What are the kinds of helping behavior that include casual, personal, emotional, and emergency helping?
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Who was Kitty Genovese, and how does her case illustrate the bystander effect?
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What is the situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm but go along with it because they assume, incorrectly, that most others accept it?
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What is the expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future?
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What hypothesis suggests that when we feel empathy for a person, we will attempt to help that person purely for altruistic reasons?
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