Psych/Soc 3

Question 1

Social facilitation

Answer 1

We perform better on simple tasks in presence of others

For tough tasks, you perform worse (yerkes dodson)

Question 2

What is deindividuation?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is social loafing?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Anticipatory socialization

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is resocialization?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What is an ascribed status?

Answer 6

Born into it status

Question 7

What is the master status?

Answer 7

How we are seen, current status

Question 8

What are secondary groups?

Answer 8

Interactions that are superficial, few emotional bonds

Question 9

Opposites attract if…?

Answer 9

They are complementary

Question 10

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

Answer 10

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

Question 11

How do reciprocity influence attraction?

Answer 11

We like people who like us

Question 12

What part of the brain modulates impulsiveness?

Answer 12

prefrontal cortex

Question 13

What does the cognitive neoassociation model state?

Answer 13

it states that aggression is linked to negative emotion

Question 14

What is a secure attachment?

Answer 14

Reliable and secure, child can explore and prefers caregiver

Question 15

What is the avoident attachment?

Answer 15

Caregiver doesn’t respond to distressed child

child show no preference to caregiver

Question 16

An ambivalent attachment is what?

Answer 16

Care giver is inconsistent

Child distressed when caregiver leaves, mixed when they return

Question 17

Disorganized attachment is what?

Answer 17

Care giver is erratic or socially withdrawn

child shows no consistent pattern of behavior toward caregiver

Question 18

Polygyny is what?

Answer 18

Male mates with multiple females

Question 19

Polyandry is what?

Answer 19

Females mate with multiple males

Question 20

What is fisherian (runaway) selection?

Answer 20

when trait has no survival effects but is exaggerated over time

Peacock

Question 21

What are indicator traits?

Answer 21

a trait that signifies overall good health

Question 22

What is game theory?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What is evolutionary Stable strategy? ESS

Answer 23

natural selection will prevent other strategies from arising

Question 24

What is inclusive fitness?

Answer 24

an individual organisms success

Question 25

What is social perception?

Answer 25

Making judgements and impressions on others

Question 26

Impression bias is what?

Answer 26

selection of cues to form interpretations of others

Question 27

What is the primacy effect?

Answer 27

1st impressions more imporant than other interactions

Question 28

What is recency effect?

Answer 28

The most recent impression is most important

Question 29

In impression bias what is the reliance on central traits?

Answer 29

Your impression is based on a persons central trait eg - intelligence, trust,

Question 30

What is the implicit personality theory in impression bias'?

Answer 30

Judgments on personality are made quickly, often subconsciously

Question 31

What is the halo effect?

Answer 31

The general perception of a person affects overall impression of individual "i like him, he must be a good man, honest, friendly"

Question 32

Whats the just-world hypothesis?

Answer 32

Charma good things happen to good people and vice versa

Question 33

What is the self-serving bias?

Answer 33

Own success based on internal factors Failures based on external factors

Question 34

attribution theory is what?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is a dispositional behavior?

Answer 35

The behavior is internal, relating to person ie beliefs, attitudes, personalities

Question 36

What is a situational behavior in the attribution theory?

Answer 36

When behavior is related to external causes such as surroundings ie - threats, money, social norm

Question 37

What is the fundamental attribution error?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Sterotype content model does what?

Answer 38

attempts to classify stereotypes with warmth and competence.

Question 39

what is stereotype threat?

Answer 39

A person is worried about confirming a negative stereotype about them

Question 40

What is a predjudice?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 41

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

Question 42

What is cultural relativism?

Answer 42

Concept devised to compare and understand other cultures

Question 43

discrimination is the?

Answer 43

predjucial attitudes that cause bad treatments of others

Question 44

What is functionalism?

Answer 44

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

Question 45

What is manifest function

Answer 45

An intended positive effect

Question 46

What is a latent function in a society?

Answer 46

unintended positive effect on a system

Question 47

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

Answer 47

High birth and death rates

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Mortality rates drop and birth stays high

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Birth rates drop

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Both birth and death rates are low

Question 51

What is self-determination theory?

Answer 51

That one wants to emphasize autonomy, relatedness, and competence

Question 52

What is fundamental attribution error?

Answer 52

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

Question 53

What is self-effacing bias?

Answer 53

Attributing success to external factors

Question 54

Freudian perspectives focus on?

Answer 54

The unconscious

Question 55

What is the humanist perspective?

Answer 55

Helping people become more self-actualized people, more fulfilled Using free will

Question 56

What is belief perserverence?

Answer 56

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

Question 57

What is behavioral modeling?

Answer 57

When someone unconsciously or consciously imitates a behavior being down

Question 58

What is inattentional blindness?

Answer 58

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

Question 59

What's the difference between social constructionism and social interactionism?

Answer 59

Interactionism focuses on how we interact through symbols and communication Constructionism is how we as a society construct concepts and principles

Question 60

What is the rational choice theory?

Answer 60

Using a pro's and con's list

Question 61

What is exchange theory?

Answer 61

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