Social Psychology (4C) Flashcards

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What is group?

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An organized, stable collection of individuals in which the members are aware of an influence one another and share common identity

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What is group dynamics?

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How membership or participation in a group influences our thoughts and behaviours

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What is an additive task?

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It is when members perform parallel task. Productivity increases with group size.
EX: shovelling snow on a large parking lot; the more people the more efficient

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What is a conjunctive task?

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Group is only as productive as its weakest members
EX: hiking up a mountain with a group

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What is a disjunctive task?

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When a single solution is required, the most competent group member is likely to provide a solution

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What is a divisible task?

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When simultaneous performance of several tasks is needed, a larger group with a leader to coordinate tasks is optimal

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What is social facilitation?

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Improvement in performance because others are present . Operates for both psychical and mental tasks

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What is social loafing?

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Phenomena in which people extert less effort on a collective task than they would on a comparable individual task.
- It is also known as free riding
- It occurs large groups
- It occurs less in highly cohesive groups
- Displayed i we stern cultures more than eastern cultures
- Seen more in men then women

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What is group polarization?

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Initial attitudes become more intense and extreme with group interaction
EX: liking JB more after raving about him in a group

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What is groupthink?

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Faulty group decision making as a result of trying to hard to agree

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What is altruism?

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Self-sacrificing behaviour carried out for the benefit of others

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what is egoistic helping behaviour?

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Motivated by a desire to reduce one’s own personal distress or receive rewards

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What is the bystander effect (Apathy)

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The more people present, the less likely any one person will attempt to help

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what is diffusion of responsibility?

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we are less likely to assist in a lager group because reasonability to help is shared

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What is aggression?

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Broad range of behaviour as intended to harm others.
- There is a genetic component
- Associated with high levels of testosterone and low levels of serotonin

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What is the frustration aggression hypothesis?

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We become aggressive in response to frustration

17
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Women and aggression?

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Women usually participate in relational aggression
EX: snubbing, gossiping, and excluding from groups

18
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Men and aggression?

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Men usually participate in direct aggression
EX: verbal and physical abuse

19
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What are the three levels of attraction

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Behavioural, cognitive, and affective

20
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What are the five key factors linked to liking

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Liking is a fondness and affection for another person
1. Similarity
2. Proximity
3. self-disclosure
4. Situational factors
5. Physical attractiveness

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What is secure attachment?

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Are comfortable with dependable and do not fear becoming too close or being abandoned; 53% of adults

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What is avoidant attachment in relationships?

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Uncomfortable being close and having difficult trusting and deepening on others; 26% of adults

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What is anxious-ambivalent attachment in relationships?

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Insecure and worry that their partners do not really love them and will leave 20%

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What does the orbitofrontal cortex do?

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Responsible for social reasoning, reward evaluation, reading other people, eliciting emotional sates

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what is the ventromedial prefrontal cortex?

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It processes rewards and punishments, interpreting non-verbal social information, making social and moral assessments and decisions, feeling empathy

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What is the insula responsible for?

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Empathy and reading of others

27
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What is the amygdala?

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identity emotional facial expression of other people
It pays attentions so stimuli that may be unpredictable, potentially rewarding or potentially punishing