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AP® Psychology: Social Psychology Part 2

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This deck covers key concepts from social psychology, including biases, stereotypes, group dynamics, and influential studies. It helps students understand how social influences shape behavior and perception.

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If I believe everyone likes chocolate because I like chocolate, and you believe everyone likes vanilla because you like vanilla, what is being exhibited?

The false-consensus effect is occurring. We believe that because we feel one way about something, everyone else feels the same way about it.
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If I believe everyone likes chocolate because I like chocolate, and you believe everyone likes vanilla because you like vanilla, what is being exhibited?
The false-consensus effect is occurring. We believe that because we feel one way about something, everyone else feels the same way about it.
Why are we more likely to take credit for our role in a successful group presentation than an unsuccessful group presentation?
The self-serving bias allows us to believe that we had a greater role in something’s success than in its failure.
What belief allows us to think that good things will come to good people, and bad things will ultimately befall bad people?
The just-world bias helps us make sense of the world by thinking that it is fair and just. This also allows us to blame victims of misfortune, believi...
What is a stereotype?
A stereotype is a shared belief about a group of people and can be positive or negative.
What is a prejudice and how does it differ from a stereotype?
A prejudice is the affective component of stereotyping, like being scared of a group of people you believe to be violent.
What is discrimination, and how does it emerge from stereotypes and prejudices?
Discrimination is the action taken because of the prejudices that arise from stereotypes. An example of discrimination is calling the police about a g...
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AP® Psychology: Social Psychology Part 2
TermDefinition
If I believe everyone likes chocolate because I like chocolate, and you believe everyone likes vanilla because you like vanilla, what is being exhibited?
The false-consensus effect is occurring. We believe that because we feel one way about something, everyone else feels the same way about it.
Why are we more likely to take credit for our role in a successful group presentation than an unsuccessful group presentation?
The self-serving bias allows us to believe that we had a greater role in something’s success than in its failure.
What belief allows us to think that good things will come to good people, and bad things will ultimately befall bad people?
The just-world bias helps us make sense of the world by thinking that it is fair and just. This also allows us to blame victims of misfortune, believing things would have been different if they had made better decisions.
What is a stereotype?
A stereotype is a shared belief about a group of people and can be positive or negative.
What is a prejudice and how does it differ from a stereotype?
A prejudice is the affective component of stereotyping, like being scared of a group of people you believe to be violent.
What is discrimination, and how does it emerge from stereotypes and prejudices?
Discrimination is the action taken because of the prejudices that arise from stereotypes. An example of discrimination is calling the police about a group of people loitering in an area because you believe them to be violent, even if they have done nothing wrong.
If you believe that other cultures are odd because they are not like your own, and that your culture is superior to other cultures, you are engaging in what?
ethnocentrism
Why might we see members of our out-groups as all being the same?
We have extensive experience with those who are part of our in-groups, so we see the variance therein. However, we have less experience with groups we are not part of, so we tend to see them as all being the same. This is called out-group homogeneity.
Why might we engage in in-group bias?
Researchers suggest that we have a need to see ourselves as good people. If we have a social identity that we believe makes us good, we will tend to favor people in our in-groups, since we believe they must also be good (or they would be part of our out-groups).
When prejudice is reduced through cooperation between groups to complete a larger goal, what is this goal called, and what is this belief?
This large, shared goal is called a superordinate goal, and the theory of minimizing prejudice through cooperation with other groups is called contact theory.
What did Sherif's Robbers Cave study teach us about group conflict and superordinate goals?
Kids were divided into two groups in a camp; Both groups showed escalating hostility in competitive tasks resulting in prejudice; This prejudice was only decreased when the two groups had to cooperate to complete a superordinate goal (like putting out a fire); This shows how easily in-groups form prejudices and hostility and how superordinate goals can reduce those prejudices
How would the frustration-aggression hypothesis explain a scapegoat?
This theory asserts that frustration makes us more likely to become aggressive, and when we can't vent our aggression at the source of the frustration, we act out our aggression on someone or something else (a scapegoat).
What did the murder of Kitty Genovese lead Darley and Latane to study?
When Genovese was murdered in view of dozens of witnesses who did nothing, Darley and Latane wanted to find out why nobody helped. This led to their research on the bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility.
What did Darley and Latane find about the bystander effect?
They found that the more people there are involved as bystanders to an emergency, the less likely each individual will be to take action to stop the emergency. The diffusion of responsibility phenomenon spreads out the feeling of responsibility within a group so it is less and less concentrated with each additional witness.
Why are we less scared of turbulence on an airplane if the flight attendants are smiling?
Pluralistic ignorance is the idea that we look at those around us to decide how we should react to a situation. If we are on a bumpy flight but the flight attendants or other passengers are unaffected, we will react as though nothing is wrong.