Social Psychology

Question 1

Implicit Egotism

Answer 1

The unawareness of preferences similar to themselves

Question 2

Social Psychology

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Study of the causes and consequences of sociality

Question 3

What does social psychology study?

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The insight of how humans solve problems of survival and reproduction

• Understanding/predicting each other
• Influencing each other

Question 4

Aggresion

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• Behavior whose purpose is to harm another

- Used by every animal on planet to achieve goals

Question 5

Frustration-aggression hypothesis:

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States that all animals aggress when their goals are frustrated (Proactive/Reactive aggression)

Question 6

Gender is the best predictor of kind of aggression employed

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Men (reactive): Socialization, Testosterone, Status/dominance threatened
Women (proactive): Verbal aggression, causing social harm

Question 7

Aggression can change over time and varies by _______

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Geographic location

Question 8

Cooperation

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Behavior by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit

Question 9

Group

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A collection of people who have something in common with you and different from others

Question 10

Prejudice

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Positive or negative evaluation of another person based on group membership

Question 11

Risks of Cooperation

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Decision making can be hindered by leaving out other member’s thoughts/opinions/experience

Question 12

Bystander Apathy

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The idea that you’re innocent because another bystander was also there and didn’t do anything to help

Question 13

Altruism

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Intentional behavior that benefits another at a potential cost to oneself

Question 14

Reciprocal altruism

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Behavior that benefits another with the expectation that those benefits will be returned in the future

Question 15

Kin selection

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Process by which evolution selects for individuals who cooperate with their relative

Question 16

Attraction is caused by…

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Situational, physical and psychological factors

Question 17

Social Cognition

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The process by which people come to understand others

Question 18

Stereotyping

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Process of drawing inferences about individuals based on their category membership

Question 19

Things of stereotypes that lead to misuse

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• Inaccuracy
• Overuse
• Self-perpetuation
• Unconscious and automatic

Question 20

Stereotypes are false and come from:

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• Watching television
• Listening to songs
• Hearing people talk
• Direct observation

Question 21

Behavioral confirmation

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Tendency for people to cause what they expect to see

Question 22

Stereotype threat

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Fear of confirming the negative beliefs that others may hold

Question 23

Perceptual confirmation

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When observers perceive what they expect to perceive

Question 24

Subtyping

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Tendency for people who are faced with disconfirming evidence to modify their stereotypes rather than abandon

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Category-based inferences

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Inferences based on information about categories to which a person belongs

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Target-based inferences

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Inferences based on information about an individual's behavior

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Attribution

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Inference about the cause of a person's behavior

Question 28

Dispositional attributions

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Someone's internal disposition as cause

Question 29

Situational attributions

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The external situation as cause

Question 30

Covariation Model

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Consistency, Consensus, Distinctiveness

Question 31

Conformity

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Tendency to do what others do simply because others are doing it

Question 32

Behavior of others tells us that we are acting....

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Proper Appropriate Expected Accepted

Question 33

Obedience

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Tendency to do what powerful people tell us to do