PSYC 360 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ingroups And Outgroups, Self-Perception Theory, Group Cohesiveness
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Proximity the tendency to be attracted to people you see more frequently: festinger people living closer in apartments became closer. Deindividuation loosening of normal constraints on behavior when in a crowd, leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts. Conformity baron: participants picked criminals out of line-up in groups of four with three confederates; many times would go with the group. Self verification: self-handicapping creating an obstacle to your performance to have a ready-made excuse for failure: ex: drinking the night before a test and blaming failing on that. Self esteem: downward social comparisons comparing yourself to worse-off others: ex: i made a 70 on the exam, but sam made a 65. Belongingness: birging basking in reflected glory of in-group achievements: ex: i may suck, but we won the game! , they are mental structures used to organize knowledge about the social world. Examples: person schema contains info about the characteristics of people.
