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Social Psychology (Social Interaction (Prejudice and Discrimination…

- - - - Three Components
        
        passion
        
        commitment
        
        Intimacy
      - Three types
        
        Romantic
        
        intimacy/passion
        
        Companionate
        
        intimacy/and commitment
        
        Consummate
        
        intimacy, passion and commitment
  - - - partially explained by social learning theory-social roles expected behavior in particular social situations determine much of behavior
      - childhood exposure to abuse does not necessarily mean that one will grow up to be an abuser
      - short term exposure to violent media has been correlated with increases in both physical and verbal aggression and aggressive thoughts and emotions
- - - - presence of others increases extreme positions
    - - Social Loafing: occurs when people do not work hard when others are also working; easy to "hide" in a group
      - Deindividuation: group members may feel anonymous and experience less personal responsibility
      - Social Impairment: negative influence
      - Social Facilitation: positive influence
    - - occurs when people within a group feel it is more important to maintain group cohesiveness rather than critically evaluate facts when making decisions often with dire consequences
- - - - can be reduced by, changing behavior, changing cognition, or forming new cognitions to justify behavior
  - - - Social Categorization: automatic and unconscious assignment of a new acquaintance to some category or group
        
        Stereotypes: set of characteristics believed to be shared by all members of a particular category, can be useful by limiting information processing.
        
        according to implicit personality theory, categories assigned are based on the set of assumptions formed in childhoood about different types of people
  - - - are not great predictors of behavior although tend to have more inflence as they become more specific and salient
      - attitude formation can be the result of several processes
        
        Direct Contact
        
        Direct Instruction
        
        Interaction with others
        
        Vicarious Learning
      - comprise affective, behavioral and cognitive components
      - can change through persuasion and are contingent upon both the message and the target audience elaboration likelihood model suggests that the route/level of information processing influences ease of persuasion.
  - - - Dispositional: cause of behavior is assumed to come from within the individual
      - Fundamental Attribution Error: is the tendency to overestimate the influence of another persons internal characteristics on behavior and underestimate the external/situational factors; influenced by age and culture.
      - Situational: cause of behavior is assumed to come from externnal sources