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Psych/Soc 3 Flashcards

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Social facilitation

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We perform better on simple tasks in presence of others

For tough tasks, you perform worse (yerkes dodson)

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What is deindividuation?

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When in a group (mobs, uniform) your behavior becomes worse

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What is social loafing?

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When in big group others don’t put in much effort

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Anticipatory socialization

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Process by which a personprepares for future changes, happens more in adulthood

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What is resocialization?

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Process by which one discards old behaviors in favor of new ones

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What is an ascribed status?

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Born into it status

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What is the master status?

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How we are seen, current status

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What are secondary groups?

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Interactions that are superficial, few emotional bonds

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Opposites attract if…?

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They are complementary

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A person is attracted to another when there is self disclosure, what is this?

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When people can share their fears, thoughts, and goals without nonjudgmental empathy

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How do reciprocity influence attraction?

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We like people who like us

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12
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What part of the brain modulates impulsiveness?

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prefrontal cortex

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What does the cognitive neoassociation model state?

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it states that aggression is linked to negative emotion

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What is a secure attachment?

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Reliable and secure, child can explore and prefers caregiver

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What is the avoident attachment?

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Caregiver doesn’t respond to distressed child

child show no preference to caregiver

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An ambivalent attachment is what?

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Care giver is inconsistent

Child distressed when caregiver leaves, mixed when they return

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Disorganized attachment is what?

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Care giver is erratic or socially withdrawn

child shows no consistent pattern of behavior toward caregiver

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Polygyny is what?

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Male mates with multiple females

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Polyandry is what?

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Females mate with multiple males

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What is fisherian (runaway) selection?

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when trait has no survival effects but is exaggerated over time

Peacock

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What are indicator traits?

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a trait that signifies overall good health

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What is game theory?

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The conflict that results in individuals in conflict and their results from behavior

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What is evolutionary Stable strategy? ESS

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natural selection will prevent other strategies from arising

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What is inclusive fitness?

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an individual organisms success

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What is social perception?

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Making judgements and impressions on others

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Impression bias is what?

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selection of cues to form interpretations of others

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What is the primacy effect?

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1st impressions more imporant than other interactions

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What is recency effect?

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The most recent impression is most important

29
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In impression bias what is the reliance on central traits?

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Your impression is based on a persons central trait

eg - intelligence, trust,

30
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What is the implicit personality theory in impression bias’?

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Judgments on personality are made quickly, often subconsciously

31
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What is the halo effect?

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The general perception of a person affects overall impression of individual

“i like him, he must be a good man, honest, friendly”

32
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Whats the just-world hypothesis?

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Charma

good things happen to good people and vice versa

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What is the self-serving bias?

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Own success based on internal factors

Failures based on external factors

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attribution theory is what?

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we use cues to determine if a persons behavior is dispositional or situational

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What is a dispositional behavior?

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The behavior is internal, relating to person

ie beliefs, attitudes, personalities

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What is a situational behavior in the attribution theory?

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When behavior is related to external causes such as surroundings

ie - threats, money, social norm

37
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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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We blame someones behavior on dispositional (the internal person) rather than situational

38
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Sterotype content model does what?

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attempts to classify stereotypes with warmth and competence.

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what is stereotype threat?

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A person is worried about confirming a negative stereotype about them

40
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What is a predjudice?

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an irrational positive or negative attitude toward person or thing PRIOR to an actual experience with that entity

41
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What is ethnocentrism?

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when you make a judgement about other cultures based on the beliefs or values of your own culture

42
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What is cultural relativism?

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Concept devised to compare and understand other cultures

43
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discrimination is the?

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predjucial attitudes that cause bad treatments of others

44
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What is functionalism?

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A theoretical framework that explains how parts of society fit together to create a cohesive whole

45
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What is manifest function

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An intended positive effect

46
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What is a latent function in a society?

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unintended positive effect on a system

47
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During a demographic transition, what is the birth/death rates like in stage 1?

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High birth and death rates

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During a demographic transition, what is the birth/death rates like in stage 2?

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Mortality rates drop and birth stays high

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During a demographic transition, what is the birth/death rates like in stage 3?

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Birth rates drop

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During a demographic transition, what is the birth/death rates like in stage 4?

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Both birth and death rates are low

51
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What is self-determination theory?

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That one wants to emphasize autonomy, relatedness, and competence

52
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What is fundamental attribution error?

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Making dispositional assumptions (like internal factors) rather than situational (like external factors) to attribute ones success/failure.

53
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What is self-effacing bias?

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Attributing success to external factors

54
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Freudian perspectives focus on?

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The unconscious

55
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What is the humanist perspective?

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Helping people become more self-actualized people, more fulfilled

Using free will

56
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What is belief perserverence?

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When given opposing arguments, people tend to discard opposing opinions of their own and more greatly accept opinions matching their own.

57
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What is behavioral modeling?

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When someone unconsciously or consciously imitates a behavior being down

58
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What is inattentional blindness?

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Not noticing an object because you are focused on something else.

59
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What’s the difference between social constructionism and social interactionism?

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Interactionism focuses on how we interact through symbols and communication

Constructionism is how we as a society construct concepts and principles

60
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What is the rational choice theory?

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Using a pro’s and con’s list

61
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What is exchange theory?

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It is like rational theory, but instead of individuals it focuses on ones interactions in a group setting

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