Do Now Take Out HW Level-Up Quiz PLEASE NOTE: I am NOT going over attraction, aggression, culture, or minority influence in class. Read these pages carefully and bring questions if you have them.

Attitudes and Actions Attitude Central route persuasion Peripheral route persuasion

Attitudes and Actions Actions Affect Attitudes The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon start small and build Door-in-the-Face Phenomenon When have you used each of these?

Conformity and Obedience Chameleon effect Mood linkage

Indicate if you agree or disagree with each statement on a scale of 1-5 1. World hunger is a serious problem that needs attention. 2. Our country needs to address the growing number of homeless. 3. The right to vote is one of the most valuable rights of American citizens. 4. Our government should spend less money on nuclear weapons and more on helping citizens better their lives.

Indicate if you FREQUENTLY perform each behavior by writing yes or no. 1. Do you personally do anything to lessen world hunger (e.g., donate money or food or write your representative)? 2. Do you personally do anything to help the homeless (e.g., volunteer at a homeless shelter or donate money)? 3. Did you vote in the last election for which you were eligible? 4. Do you personally convey your feelings to the government (e.g., by writing your representative or by participating in protests/marches)?

Talk to a Partner Do your statements about your beliefs and your actions match? How do you feel about this?

Attitudes and Actions Actions Affect Attitudes Cognitive Dissonance: Relief From Tension Cognitive dissonance theory “Attitudes follow behavior”

Cognitive Dissonance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korGK0yGIDo&feature=related

Group Influence Individual Behavior in the Presence of Others Social Impairment Social Facilitation Task difficulty Expertise effects Crowding effects

Social Facilitation = stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others.

Group Influence Individual Behavior in the Presence of Others Social Loafing Reasons why? Less accountability View themselves as dispensable

Social Loafing = the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.

Group Influence Individual Behavior in the Presence of Others Deindividuation

Deindividuation = the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.

Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction Group Polarization

Group Polarization = the enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion with the groups.

Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction Group Polarization

Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction Group Polarization

Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction Group Polarization

Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction Group Polarization

Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction Group Polarization

Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction Groupthink Bay of Pigs Challenger explosion

Groupthink = the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.

Prejudice How Prejudiced Are People? Stereotype Discrimination

Prejudice Social Roots of Prejudice Social Inequalities Us and Them: Ingroup and Outgroup Ingroup (Ingroup bias) Outgroup Emotional roots of prejudice Scapegoat theory xxx

Robber’s Cave Experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QGNxRGgBwM

The Robbers’ Cave: An Experiment in Conflict In the Robber’s Cave experiment, conflict between groups arose from an intensely competitive situation Cooperation, however, replaced conflict when the experimenters contrived situations that fostered mutual interdependence and common goals for the groups Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007

The Robbers’ Cave: An Experiment in Conflict Superordinate Goals– A goal of higher importance. Individuals or groups must work together cooperatively to accomplish this goal. Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007

Prejudice Cognitive Roots of Prejudice Categorization Outgroup homogeneity Other-race effect Vivid cases Just-world phenomenon Hindsight bias

Implicit Bias and the IAT Implicit Bias – more common today than overt bias or prejudice IAT used to measure this Does NOT indicate that you are racist or prejudiced, just that you have some pre-existing connections with certain groups based on what you have learned https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/ (Starts with informed consent, confidentiality)

Implicit.harvard.edu Go to demonstration tasks

6 Degrees of Separation Link the two terms I give you using OTHER social & research methods terms. You can also use terms from the history unit. Try to do this using as FEW words as is possible – your explanation must be clear and easily understandable to other people.

Concept Map Create a concept map using terms from the social psych and research methods unit. Use AT LEAST one term from each box on the sheet When connecting terms, write a brief explanation of WHY you link those terms together. You can also use distinctions to separate terms. Include as MANY terms as you can in the time given. You may also add history terms if you would like

Psyc Statistics Review

Talk to a Partner What did you do for your norm violation? How did you feel? How did people respond? What does this indicate about social norms?

Describing Data Measures of Central Tendency Mode (occurs the most) Mean (arithmetic average) Median (middle score)

Describing Data Measures of Variability Range Standard Deviation

Describing Data Measures of Variability Normal Curve (bell shaped)

Skewed Distributions In a skewed distribution, numbers are not evenly distributed around the mean like a bell curve. Instead, numbers cluster around the higher or lower end of the distribution.

Central Tendency & Skewed Distributions In a skewed distribution, the median is often the most accurate measure of central tendency because the mean is affected more by outliers.

Looking at Variance

Describing the Data With Descriptive Statistics Descriptive statistics include: The mean The median The mode The range The standard deviation The normal distribution Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007

Making Inferences with inferential statistics Inferential statistics are used to assess whether the results of a study are reliable or whether they might be simply the result of chance Sampling Random sample Representative sample Statistical significance Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007