PY. Ch.12

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A Stereotype

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Thinking all Irish people are drunks and eat potatoes is an example of

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Illusory Correlation

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Are based on things we can see

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Attributions

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Do you believe in Luck? Only In bad luck. How else can I explain the losses I have in the stock Market?

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External Attribution

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MY friend stood me for lunch because she is rude

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Internal Attribution based on personal traits

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My friend calls to apologize that she wont make lunch because of a flat tire

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External Attribution/ environmental setback

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People causes of being poverish because they are lazy and have a lack of thrift is what dimension?

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Internal-stable(ability & Intelligence)

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People causes of being poverish because they have a financially draining illness is what dimension?

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internal unstable(effort, mood, fatigue)

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People causes of being poverish because they are discriminated against and have inadequate government programs for training.

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external-stable(task difficulty)

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People causes of being poverish because they have bad luck and are in a economic recession.

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External unstable(luck, chance, opportunity)

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“I don’t even like to drink beer, but it’s the best way to meet women.” Is what kind of attribution

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situational attribution

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“He seems to always have a beer in his hand, he must have a drinking problem.”

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Dispositional Attribution

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dispositional for success and situational for failure and what we do ourselves

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Self serving bias

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Explain behavior our own external factors and others behaviors on internal characteristics and misjudge others

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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People that have equal attractiveness tend to select each other as partners

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Matching Hypothesis

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Repeated exposure increases liking, unless it’s a negative stimulus

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Proximity

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The major cementing factor people who are close become more alike

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similarity

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Giving is on the same level as recieving

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Reciprocity

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Easy to get close to people and can depend on them and vice-versa. I don’t worry about abandonment or someone getting close.

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Secure Adult Attachment

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I am sorta uncomfortable being close to others. Difficult to trust others and depend on them. I am nervous when anyone gets close and partners want me more intimate than I’m willing too.

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Avoidant Attachment

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I find others don’t get as close as much as I like. I often worry that my partner doesn’t love me. I want to merge with other people but that scares people away.

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Anxious/ambivalent

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A theory based on intimacy, passion, and commitment

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Sternberg’s theory of love

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Sharing all the challenges and all the victories is an example of

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Intimacy

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feeling physically aroused and attracted to
someone. Women tend to underestimate men’s
sexual interest while men tend to overestimate
women’s sexual interest. Ex. Movie: “When Harry met Sally” comments

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Passion

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Sticking together despite hardships or mistakes and believing it is worth more to stay committed

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Commitment

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A preconceived attitude toward a specific group of people

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prejudice

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Difference of treatment based on their group membership

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Discrimination

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Them as being so different than us

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in-groups and out groups

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Ex. I don’t like algebra/I like kind people.

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Explicit attitudes

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Many people express explicit attitudes that condemn prejudice but unknowingly harbor implicit attitudes that reflect subtle forms of prejudice.

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Implicit attitudes

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"I believe women should be wives, not workers"

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Cognitive component

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"I get angry when I see a woman doing a man's job."

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Affective Component

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"I wouldn't hire a woman manager."

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Behavioral component

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Ex. An unfavorable attitude towards hiring women for a man’s job doesn’t always result in less women being hired in male dominated positions. A person’s attitudes are mediocre at predicting their behavior.

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People’s attitudes are not good predictors of their behavior.

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People conform to group pressure out of a need for approval and acceptance. They do not like to go against unanimity (when the group has unanimous agreement).

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Normative Social Influence

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as group size increases, so does conformity

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Group size

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people we conform to because we like and admire them and want to be like them.

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Reference Groups

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What can decrease Conformity?

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* When the task is unambiguous, which means the task is not open to more than one interpretation. Ambiguity can create doubt and uncertainty and more conformity./ When the group is smaller than 4 people.? When people respond in private

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The presence of others tends to increase arousal and feelings of anonymity./ hen you’re among a happy and celebratory crowd, but can also be negative and lead to angry mobs,

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Deindividuation

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Faulty decision making that occurs when a highly cohesive group strives for agreement and avoids inconsistent information. The Challenger incident

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groupthink

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We play better when we are infront of people than on our own except on new or novel tasks

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Social Facilitation

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Does it seem to you that one or more people in a group seem to put forth less that their full effort? The tendency for people to reduce their efforts when working as part of a group is called

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social loafing

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An example would be believing that someone else has already called for help in an emergency situation.

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Bystander effect

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personal responsibility for acting to help someone by spreading that responsibility among all other group members. This happens in step 3 above and causes people to not help those in need.

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Diffusion of Responsibility

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Help other people with no benefit to you

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Altruism

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favors survival of one's genes

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evolutionary

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motivated by anticipated gain

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Egoistic

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due to empathy for someone in need.

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empathy-altruism hypothesis

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The rule that we should pay back in kind what we receive from others is know as the

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reciprocity norm