AP Psych Chapter 14- Social Psychology (Key People) – Flashcards

Conducted a study; took an Asian couple to hotels and restaurants to study attitude

Conducted experiment on cognitive dissonance

Put forth a theory that explains the kind of attributions people make based on three kinds of information: consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus

Pygmalion in the Classroom experiment; caused students in selected group to outperform students in regular classroom because of their status

Co-operation among divisive groups when they had subordinate (shared) goals.

Tested BYSTANDER EFFECT, started after Kitty Genovese murder.

conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the first card in length

Tested to see about commands and how people respond to it (the shock experiment)

Groupthink; likely to occur in a group that has unquestioned beliefs, pressue to conform, invulnerability, censors, cohesiveness within, isolation from without, and a strong leader

Conducted Stanford Prison experiment