Chap 6-10 Flashcards
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What is emotion?
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A conscious evaluative reaction that is clearly linked to some event
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Whag is Mood?
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a feeling state that is not clearly linked to some event
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What is affect?
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The automatic response that something is good or bad
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What is conscious emotion?
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A powerful. and clearly unified feeling state, such as anger and joy
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What is automatic effect
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A quick response of liking or disliking toward something
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What is arousal?
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a physilogcal reaction including faster heartbeat or heavier breathing, linked to ost conscious emotions
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What is James-Langes theory of emotion?
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The propositions that the bodfiliy process of emotion come first and the mind’s perception of these bodily reactions then creates the subjective feeling of emtion
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What hypothesisdid the JAmes- langes theory come up with/?
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Facial feedbaxck hypothesis
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What is the facial feedbacl hypothesis?
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The idea that feedback from the face muscles evokes or magnifies emotions because the brain reacts to what they muscles are doing
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Schachter singer theory of emotion?
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The idea that emotion has two components.
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What are the two components of emotion in schachter-singers theory?
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A bodily state of arousal and a cognitive label that specifies the emotion
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What is excitation transfer?
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The idea that arousal from one event can transfer to a later event
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What is sex guilt ?
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feelingguilty about sexual thoughts, acts or fanatsies
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What is affect balance?
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The frequency of positive empotions minus the frequency of negartive emotions
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What is Life satisfaction?
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An evaluation of how one;s life is generally and how it compares to some standard
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What is a hedonic treadmil?
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A theory proposing that people stay at about the same lebel of happiness regardless of what hapens to them
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What is Eodiversity?
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Degree to which a person experiences the variety and relative abundance of human emotions
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What is anger?
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An emotional response to a real or imagend threat or provocation
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What Catharsis theory?
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The propisition that expressing negative emotions produces a healthy relsease of thse emotionbs and is therefore good for the psyche
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What is Guilt?
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An unplesant moral empotion associated with a sopecific instance in which ine has acted badly wrongly
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What is shame?
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A moral emotion thatg like guilt , invlves feeling bad, but unlike guilt spreads to the whole perdson
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What is surviours guilt?
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An unplesant emtion associated with living theough an experience during which other people died
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What is Disgust?
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A strong negative feeling of repugnance and revulsion
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What is affect as information as information hypothesis?
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The idea that people judge soething as good or bad by asking themselves “how do i feel about it?
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What is affect forecasting?
The ability to predict one's emotional reactions to future events
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What is the risk as feeling hypothesis?
The idea that people rely on emotional processes to evluate risk with the result that their judgement may be biased by emotinal factors
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What does the broaden and build theory state?
the proposition that positive emotions expand an individuals attention and mind set and promote increasing one's resources
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What is emotional intelligence?
The ability to perceive access and generate understand and reflectively regulate emotions
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What is the dark triad of personality?
Consists of narcissism psychopathy and machavelinism?
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What is the Yerkes-Dodson law?
The proposition that some arousal is better than none but too much can hurt performance
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What are belifs?
Pieces of information about something; facts or opinions`
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What are attitudes?
Global evaluations toward some object or issue
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What are dual attitudes? D
Different evaluations of the same attitude object held by the same person
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What are automatic attitudes?
gut level resonses people dont think about
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What are deliberate attitudes?
reflective responses people think about
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What is the mere exposure effect?
The tendency for peoplee to like thinga because theyre in constant contact with them
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What is classical conditioning?
A type of pairings in through repeated pairings, a neutral stimulus comes to make a conditioned response
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What is an unconditioned stimulus ?
A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response
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What is an unconditioned response?
A naturally ocurring response
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What is a neutral stimulus?
A stimulus that initially evokes no response
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What is a conditioned stimulus?
Neutral stimulus, through repeated pairngs with unconditioned stimulus evokes conditioned response
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What is a conditioned response?
a response evoked by formerly neutral stimulus through repeated pairings
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What is operant conditioning?
People more likely to repeat behavuors that are rewarded, less likely to repeat behaviors hat are punished
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What is social learning?
People more lilely to iitate behaviors if they see pothers being rewarded for them less likely to perform behavuor if see others being punished for it
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What is cognitive dissonance?
The uncomfortable feeling people experience when they have two thoughts or cognition conflct with each other
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What is cognitive dissonance theory?
Inconsistencies produce pschological discomfort leading people to rationalize their behavior or change their attitudes
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What is effort justification?
The justfication people make forn working hard that it is all worth while
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What is Post decision dissonance?
Cog disonance experienced after making difficult choice. increases attractiveness of chosen alternaive, reduces attraction of rejected alternatove
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What is selective exposure?
People select info tht supports their preexsisting views avoid ifo that does not support prreexsisting views
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What are filter bubbles?
Algrithims that suggest what user might want to see based on their previous likesand info available about user
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What is the A-B problem?
the problem of inconsistency between attitudes (A) and behaviors (B)
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What is accessability?
hown easily something comes to mind/
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What are behavioral intentions?
an individuals plans to perform the behavior in question
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what are subjective norms?
an individuals perceptions about whether signifigant others think he or she should perform behavuor in question
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What is perceived behavioral control?
Individs beliefs about whether they can actually perform behavior
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What is belief perseverance?
When one's beliefs form they are rigid and hard to change
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What is coping?
how people attempt to deal with stressful traumas and go back to functioning effectively in life
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What are assumptive worlds?
The view that people live in social worlds based on assumptions about reality
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What is cognitive coping?
The idea that beliefs play a central role on helping people cope with and recover from misfortunes
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What is downward comparison?
The act of comparing ones self to people who are worse off
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What is upward conparison?
The act of comparing ones self to those who are better off
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What is Normative influence?
Going alog with the crowd in order to be liked and accepted
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What is autokinetic effect?
illusion, caused by very slight movements of the eye, that a stationary point of light in a dark room is moving
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What are group norms?
Set ideas, beliefs, action behaviors groups of people accept as normal
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What is informational influence?
Going along with crowd because you percieve them as knowing more than you
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What is Pluraistic ignorance?
Looking to others for cues about how to behave ; while they are looking to you
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What term describes "a genuine inner belief that others are right?"
Private acceptance
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What term describes, "outwardly going along with the group but maintaining a private inner belief that the group ois probably wrong"
Public compliance
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What term describes, "Influence technique based on commitment, in which one starts with a small request in order to gain eventual compliance with a larger request"
Foot-in-the-door-technique
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What is Low ball technique?
Influence technique based on commitment, i which person gets another to comply with a seemingly ow cost request and addotionally later reveals hidden costs
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What is the bait and switch technique?
One draws people in with attractive offer that is unavaliable then switches them to a less attractive offer that is avaliable
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What is the Labeling technique?
One assigns label to individual, and requests favor consistent with that label
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What is the term that describes "One starts with an inflated request and then retreats to a smaller request that appears to be a concession?
Door-in-the-face- technique
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What term describes, "One first makes inflated requesr but before person can respond , sweetens the deal by offering adiscout or bonus?
Thats not all technique
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What is the limited number technique?
Influence technique based on scarcity, one tells person item is in short supply
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What is the fast approaching deadline techniue?
Influence techniqe based on scarcity, when one person tells them a price or item only available for limited number of time
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What is an "Influence techbnique in whcih one captures peoples attention as by making a novel request"?
Pique technique
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What is the dirsruot then reframe technique?
Influence technique in which one disrupts crit thinking by ntroducing an unexpected element, then reframes message in positive light
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What is persuasion?
An attmpt to change a persons attitude
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What is a source?
Individual who delievers message
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What is the sleeper effect?
The finding that over time people seperate the message from the messanger
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What is expertise
How much a source knows
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What is trustworthiness?
whether a source will honestly tell you what he or she knows
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Convert communicators
People percevied as credible sources because they are arguin against their own previously held attitudes and behavuors?
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What is the Halo effect/
Facade that if people poses one desriable trait they poses many
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What is the inverted u shape relatinship?
a relationship tht looks like upside down u when plotted
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What is advertisement wear out?
inattention and irratstion to seeing a comercial too many times
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What is repetition with variation?
Repeating same info but in a varied format
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What is receptivity?
Whether you understand message
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What is yeilding?
Whether you accept or change attitude towatds message
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What is need for cognition?
Tendency to engage in and enoy effortful thinking analysis and problem solving
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What is elaboration likelihood model?
Two routes to persuasion: via either conscious or autimatic
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What is the central route?
Route to persuasio that involves careful and thoughtful consideration of the content of the message
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What is the peripheral route?
Route to persuasion involves some simple cue such as attractiveness of the sourced
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What is personal relevance?
degree to which people expect an issue to have signifigant consequences for their own lives
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What us a negative attitude change?
doing opposite of what one is being persuaded to do
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What is prosocial behavior?
doing something that is good for other people or for society as a whole
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What is rule of law?
when members of society respect and follow rules
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What is reciprocity?
the obligation to return what another has done
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What is moral reasoning?
using logical deductions to make moral judgements based on abstyract orinciples of right and wrong
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What are moral institutions?
judgements that occur automaticlly and rely on emotional feelings
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What is cooperation?
working together with somdeone for mutual or repriciprici benefit
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What is prisoners dilemma?
Choosing between cooperation or competition
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What is a non zero sum game?
an interaction in which both particioants can win
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What is a zero sum game?
One winner
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What is forgiveness?
ceasing to feel anger or a sewnse of retribuyion to soeone who has wronged you
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What is Obedience ?
Following orders from authority figure
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Conformity
going along w/ crowd
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Trust
reliabilty or validity of something or someone
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What is Kin selection?
The tendency to help those who share our genes
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Empathy?
reacting to someones emotional state by miiroring their emotions
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What is "when a helper seeks to increase his or her own welfare by helping another?
Egotistic helping
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Whar is "when a helper sees to increase his or her own welfare and expects nothing in return?
Altruistic helpokng?
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What is trhe empathy -altruism hypthesis
the idea that empathy motivates people to reduce other peoples distress as by helping or comforting
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What is belef in a just world
more or less, abstract liberalism- people get whathey deserve
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What is the bystander effect?
the finding that people are less likly to offer help when in a group as opposed to alone
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What is pluralistic ignorance?
Looking to others for cues in how to behave while they are looking at you
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In relation to obstacles to helping, what is the reduction in feeling rewsponsible that occurs when others aqre present?
diffusion of responsibility
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In relation to obstacles to helping, what is failure to help in front pof others fir fear of feeling like a fool if one's offer of help is rejected?
Audience inhibition
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What is volunteering?
planned nonimpulsive decision to help others
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What is moral inclusion?
treat all as ingroup members
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What is agression?
any behavior intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid the harm
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What is displaced aggression?
any behavior that inentionally harms a substitute target rather than the provocateur
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What is direct aggressiom?
any behavior that intentionally harms another person whon is pphysically present
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What is indirect aggression?
behavior that intentonally harms someone that is not physically presewnt
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What is Reacvtive agression?
Behavior motivated by the desire to harm someone
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What is Proactive aggression?
Premediated harmful behavior enacted to ensure some means to an end
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What is Persistent aggression by a perpetrator against a victim for the purpose of establoshing a power relationship over the victim?
Bullying
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What is The use of internet to bully others?
Cyberbullyinh
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What has a goal of aggression which manifests itself in extreme violence or harm enacted on another being?
Violence
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What is antisocial behavior?
Behavior that either damages interpersonal relationshipsor is culturally undesirable.
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What is Instinct
innate tendency to achieve some goal
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What is eros?
in Freudian theory the constructive life-giving instinct
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What is Thantos?
In freudian Theory, the destructive death instinct
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What is, "Observing and copying or imitating the behavior of others"
Modeling
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What are the two definitions that comprise the Frustration-Aggressio Hypothesis?
1. The occurance of aggressive behavioralways presupposes the exsistence of frustration and
2. The exsistece of frustration always leads to some form of aggression
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What is Frustration?
Interference of a personal goal
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What is Hostile attribution bias?
The tendency to percieve amigious actions by others as aggressive
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What is Hostile perception bias?
The tendcency to percieve social interactions in general as being aggressive
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What is the Hostile Expectation Bias?
The tendency to assume that people will react to potential conflict with aggression
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What is fight or flight syndrome?
A response to stress that invoilves aggressing against others or running away
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What is tend and befriend syndrome?
Response to stress, involvesnurturing othersd and making friends
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What is relational aggression?
Behavior that involves intentionally harming another persons social relationships feelings of acceprtance or inclusion within a grouo
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What is Domestic Violence?
Pysically harmful actions that take olace within close interpersonal relationship
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What is Weapons Effect?
The increase in aggression that occurs as a result of the mere presencene of a weapon
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What is density?
The number of people divided by the area of the space they share
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What is crowding?
the subjective and unpleseant feeling that there are too many peoplein a given area
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What is testosterone?
male sex hormone. high levels of which have been linked to aggression
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What is serotonin?
The feel good neurotransmitte, low levels of which have been linked to aggression and violence in both animals and humans
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What is Running Amok?
Malaysian culture refers to this as person becoming uncontrollably violent after blow to ego
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What is Culture of honor?
Society places high value on individual respect, strength and virture andaaccepts violence if they are defending their honor
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What is Honor Killing?
Killing another individual who has brought dishonor to a family memeber
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What is Humiliation?
A state of disgrace or loss of self respect
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What is Lying?
Making a false statement deliberately to mislead someone
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What is Plagarize?
To claim ideas or thoughts of someone else and present them as yours
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What is identity theft?
Stealing someones identitity and using it without their permission
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What is Deindividuation
A sense of anominity and loss of individualitymaking people likely to ngage in antisocial behavior especially in large groups
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What are norms?
Social standards
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Whatare injuctive norms?
Norms that specify what most others approve of disapprove of
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What are descriptive norms?
Norms that specify what most people do
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What is Psychological reactance?
The unplesant emotional response people experience when someone is trying to restrict their freedomto engage in a desired behavior
