2. 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.

3. Attitudes and Actions Attitude Central route persuasion
Peripheral route persuasion

4. 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?

5. Conformity and Obedience
Chameleon effect
Mood linkage

6. 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.

7. 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)?

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

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

10. Cognitive Dissonance

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. Group Influence Individual Behavior in the Presence of Others
Deindividuation

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

17. Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction
Group Polarization

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

19. Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction
Group Polarization

20. Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction
Group Polarization

21. Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction
Group Polarization

22. Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction
Group Polarization

23. Group Influence Effects of Group Interaction
Group Polarization

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

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

26. Prejudice How Prejudiced Are People?
Stereotype
Discrimination

27. Prejudice Social Roots of Prejudice
Social Inequalities
Us and Them: Ingroup and Outgroup
Ingroup (Ingroup bias)
Outgroup
Emotional roots of prejudice
Scapegoat theory
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28. Robber’s Cave Experiment

29. 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
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30. 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.
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31. Prejudice Cognitive Roots of Prejudice
Categorization
Outgroup homogeneity
Other-race effect
Vivid cases
Just-world phenomenon
Hindsight bias

32. 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
(Starts with informed consent, confidentiality)

33. Implicit.harvard.edu
Go to demonstration tasks

34. 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.

35. 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

37. Psyc Statistics Review

38. 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?

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

40. Describing Data Measures of Variability
Range
Standard Deviation

41. Describing Data Measures of Variability
Normal Curve (bell shaped)

42. 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.

43. 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.

44. Looking at Variance

45. Describing the Data With Descriptive Statistics
Descriptive statistics include:
The mean
The median
The mode
The range
The standard deviation
The normal distribution
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46. 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
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