CHAPTER 13 Flashcards

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social psychology

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is the study of the causes and consequences of sociality
interpersonal behaviour and interpersonal attraction

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aggression

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behaviour whose purpose is to harm another

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frustration-aggression hypothesis

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suggests that animals aggress when their goals are frustrated

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proactive aggression

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aggression that is planned and purposeful

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reactive aggression

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aggression that occurs spontaneously in response to a negative affective state

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cooperation

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behaviour by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit

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why is cooperation risky

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prisoner’s dilemma, is dependent on both parities being cooperative then both would get the benefit

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group

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a collection of people who have something in common that distinguishes them from others

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prejudice

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an evaluation of another person based solely on his or her group membership

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common knowledge effect

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the tendency for group discussion to focus on information that all members share

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group polarization

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the tendency fro groups to make decisions that are more extreme than any member would have made alone

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12
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groupthink

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tendency for groups to reach a consensus in order to facilitate interpersonal harmony

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deindividuation

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when immersion in a group causes people to become less concerned with their personal values

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diffusion of responsibility

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the tendency of individuals to feel diminished responsibility of other actions when they are surrounded by others who are acting the same way

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social loafing

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the tendency of people to expend less effort when they are in a group than when they are alone

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16
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bystander intervention

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the act of helping strangers in an emergency situation

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altruism

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intentional behaviour that benefits another at a potential cost to oneself

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kin selection

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the process by which evolution selects individuals who cooperate with their relatives

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reciprocal altruism

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behaviour that benefits another with the expectation that those benefits will be returned in the future

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standards of beauty

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body shape - male triangle, female: hourglass
symmetry - bilaterally
age- large eyes, high eyebrows and small chin - female: young, male- mature

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homophily

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the tendency for people to like others who are similar to themselves

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22
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passionate love

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an experience involving feelings of euphoria, intimacy and intense sexual attraction

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companionate love

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experience involving affection, trust, and concern for a partner’s well-being

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comparison level of alternatives

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the cost-benefit ratio that a person believes he or she could attain in another relationship

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equity

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a state of affairs in which the cost-benefit ratios of two partners are roughly equally favourable

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social cognition

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the process by which people come to understand others

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category- based inferences

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inferences based on information about the categories to which a person belongs

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target- based inferences

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inferences based on information about an individual’s behaviour

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stereotyping

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the process of drawing inferences about individuals based on their category membership

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stereotype content

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based on warmth and competence

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categorization leads to …

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reduced perceived variability

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behavioural confirmation

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self fulfilling prophecy
the tendency of targets to behave as observers expect them to behave

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stereotype threat

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the target’s fear of confirming the observer’s negative stereotypes

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perceptual confirmation

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the tendency of observers to see what they expect to see

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subtyping

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the tendency of observers to think of targets who disconfirm stereotypes as “exceptions to the rule”

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attributions

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inferences about the causes of people’s behaviours

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situational attributions

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person’s behaviour was caused by some temporary aspect of the situation in which it happened

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dispositional attributions

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a person’s behaviour was caused by a relatively enduring tendency to think, feel, or act in a particular way

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correspondence bias

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the tendency to make a dispositional attribution when we should instead make a situational attribution

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actor-observer effect

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tendency to make situational attributions for our own behaviours while making dispositional attributions for the identical behaviour of others

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social influence

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the ability to change or direct another person’s behaviour

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overjustification effect

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when a reward decreases a person’s intrinsic motivation to perform a behaviour, less intrinsic motivation (lack of internal reward)

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reactance

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the unpleasant feeling that arises when people feel they are being coerced, often people do the opposite thing

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norms

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customary standards for behaviour that are widely shared by members of a culture

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norm of reciprocity

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an unwritten rule that people should benefit those who have benefited them

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normative influence

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another person’s behaviour provides information about what is appropriate- baby looking at mothers reaction

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door in the face technique

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an influence strategy that involves getting someone to accept a small request by first getting them to refuse a large request. (I’m pregnant… sike, just a bad grade)

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conformity

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the tendency to do what others do, and it results in part from normative influence.

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obedience

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tendency to do what authorities tell us to do

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attitude

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an enduring positive or negative evaluation of a stimulus

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belief

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an enduring piece of knowledge about a stimulus

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informational influence

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another person’s behaviour provides information about what is good or true- a group of people looking up after on person starts

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persuasion

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a person’s attitudes or beliefs are influenced by a communication from another person

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systematic persuasion

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the process by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to reason,
logic and reason

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heuristic persuasion

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the process by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to habit or emotion
habit and emotion

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foot-in-the-door technique

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smaller request followed by a larger one

57
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cognitive dissonance

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an unpleasant state that arises when a person recognizes the inconsistency of his or her actions, attitudes, or beliefs