Social Psychology

Review for Unit Test #2

• principles of natural selection and evolutionary psychology
• importance of human capacity to learn
• importance of culture, definition
• definitions & examples of norms, including personal space norms & norms related to status
• gender roles, gender differences, meaning of androgyny
• evolutionary  & cultural explanations of gender differences
• definitions – conformity, acceptance, obedience, compliance
• know details of Milgram’s experiment and results
• factors affecting obedience
• effects of group size & group attitudes on conformity
• effects of unanimity on conformity
• normative vs. informational influence
• effect of taking a public position
• elements of persuasion, what messages are persuasive
• central vs. peripheral route processing
• four important elements of persuasion
• attributes of a persuasive communicator
• effective fear-arousing messages
• two-step flow of communication
• generational differences, Bennington College study
• definition of group
• meaning of mere presence, social facilitation, evaluation apprehension, social loafing, deindividuation, group polarization, groupthink (and important characteristics)

AS ALWAYS, BE PREPARED TO APPLY THE CONCEPTS TO CASE EXAMPLES.