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Chapter 12 Flashcards

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Social cognition

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The mental processes people use to make sense out of their social environment

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Social influence

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The effects of situational factors and other people on an individual’s behavior

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Person perception

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The mental processes we use to form judgments and draw conclusions about the characteristics and motives of other people

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Social psychology

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The branch of psychology that studies how people think feel and behave in social situations

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Social norms

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The rules or expectations for appropriate behavior in a particular social situation

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Attribution

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The mental process of inferring the causes of people’s behavior including ones own. Also refers to the explanation made for a particular behavior

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Fundamental attribution error

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A tendency to attribute the behavior of others to internal personal characteristics while ignoring or understanding the effects of External situational factors; an attributional bias that is common in individualistic cultures

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Self-serving bias

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The tendency to attribute successful outcomes of one’s own behavior to internal causes in on successful outcomes to external situational causes

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Cognitive dissonance

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And unpleasant state of psychological tension or arousal that occurs when two thoughts and perceptions are inconsistent typically results from the awareness that attitudes and behavior are in conflict

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In group

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A social group to which one belongs

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Out group

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A social group to which one does not belong

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Out group homogeneity effect

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The tendency to see members of out groups as very similar to one another

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Conformity

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The tendency to adjust one’s behavior attitudes or beliefs to group norms in response to real or imagined group pressure

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Normative social influence

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Behavior that is motivated by the desire to gain social acceptance and approval

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Altruism

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Helping another person with no expectation of personal reward or benefit

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Prosocial behavior

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Any behavior that helps another whether the underlying motive is self-serving or selfless

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Bystander effect

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A phenomenon in which the greater the number of people present the less likely each individual is to help someone in distress

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Social loafing

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The tendency to expend less effort on a task when it is a group effort

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Deindividuation

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The reduction of self-awareness and inhibitions that occur when a person is a part of the group whose members feel anonymous

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Persuasion

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The deliberate attempt to influence the attitude or behavior of another person in a situation in which that person has some freedom of choice

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Situational attribution

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Your behavior or people you knows behavior

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Dispositional attribution

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Stranger who cut you off is an awful person

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Migram studied …

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Obedience (electrical chair)

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Asch studied

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Group Conformity

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Zimbardo

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Roles and how they affect people

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Rosenhans

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Roles of psychological disorders

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Diffusion of responsibility

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Avoid taking action and assume others will

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Equal status contact

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Contact with our group but on a level playing field

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Cluster a

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Paranoid schizoid schizotypal

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Cluster b

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Antisocial borderline histrionic narcissistic

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Psychopath –> hurting someone without remorse

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Borderline personality disorder

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Afraid someone is going to leave them. Unstable relationships

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Histrionic personality disorder

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Okay with people loving or hating you, you just need to be the center of attention

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Little empathy or care for anyone but yourself. Everyone HAS to like you.

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Cluster c

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Avoidant dependent and obsessive compulsive

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Avoidant personality disorder

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Sensitive to others opinions so you avoid ppl

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Dependent personality disorder

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Depend heavily on others and can’t make decisions alone

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Obsessive compulsive Personality disorder

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Orderliness and perfection, control, same routine

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Maladaptiveness

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Something that keeps you from reaching a goal

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GAD

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Always feel uneasy or anxious

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panic disorder and PTSD

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Having uncontrollable panic attacks - memories of stressful events causes anxiety

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OCD

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Obsessions cause anxiety producing thoughts. Actions to reduce anxiety

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Overt OCD

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Observable OCD

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Covert OCD

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You can’t observe

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Dissociative amnesia

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Forgetting because of if something traumatic even if you didn’t get hurt physically

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