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self disclosure

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sharing one’s fears, thoughts, and goals with another person and being met with nonjudgemental empathy

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reciprocal liking

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the phenomenon whereby people like others better when they believe the other person likes them

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proximity

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plays a role in liking someone

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mere exposure or familiarity effect

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says that people prefer stimuli that they have been exposed to more frequently

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amygdala

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part of the brain responsible for associating stimuli and their corresponding rewards or punishments

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cognitive neoassociation model

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states that we are more likely to respond to other aggressively whenever we are feeling negative emotions, such as being tired, sick, frustrated, or in pain

riots are more likely to occur on hot days than cool ones

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secure attachment

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when a child has a consistent caregiver and is able to go out and explore, knowing that he or she has a secure base to return to…having a secure attachment pattern is thought to be a vital aspect of a child’s social development

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avoidant attachment

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when the caregiver has little or no response to a distressed child, given the choice

the child will show no preference between a stranger and the caregiver, they show little or no distress when the caregiver leaves and little or no relief when the caregiver returns

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ambivalent attachment

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occurs when a caregiver has an inconsistent response to a child’s distress, sometimes responding appropriately, sometimes neglectfully

child can’t rely on the caregiver’s response…child will be distressed when the caregiver leaves, but has a mixed response when the caregiver returns, often displaying ambivalence

also known as the anxious-ambivalent attachment

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Disorganized attachment

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Children show no clear pattern of behavior in response to the caregiver’s absence or presence, but instead can show a mix of different behaviors

avoidance, resistance, seeming dazed, frozen or confused

often associated with erratic behavior and social withdrawal by the caregiver, may also flag for abuse

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social support

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perception or reality that one is cared for by a social network

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emotional support

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listening, affirming, and empathizing with someone’s feelings

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esteem support

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similar to emotional support, but touches more on affirming the qualities and skills of a person

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material support/tangible support

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any type of financial or material contribution to another person

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informational support

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providing info that will help someone

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network support

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type of social support that gives a person a sense of belonging

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foraging

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seeking out and eating food, driven by biological, psychological, and social influences

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what controls the sensation of hunger?

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hypothalamus

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lateral hypothalamus

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promotes hunger

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ventromedial hypothalamus

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responds to cues that we are full and promotes satiety

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polyandry

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female having exclusive relationships with multiple partners

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mate choice/intersexual selection

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selection of a mate based on attraction

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mate bias

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how choosy members of the species are while choosing a mate

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direct benefits

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providing material advantages, protection, or emotional support

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indirect benefits
promoting better survival in offspring
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5 Mechanisms of Mate Choice?
1. Phenotypic benefits 2. Sensory bias 3. Fisherian or runaway selection--> positive feedback mechanism in which a particular trait that doesn't impact survival is more exaggerated over time, like a peacock's tail 4. Indicator traits--> signal good health and well-being 5. Genetic compatibility--> want good genetics if it you combine genes
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altrusism
form of helping behavior in which the person's intent is to benefit someone else at cost to him or herself
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empathy
ability to experience the emotions of another
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empathy- altruism hypothesis
one individual helps another person when he or she feels empathy for the other person, regardless of the cost
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evolutionary stable strategy
ESS is adopted by a given population in a specific environment, natural selection will prevent alternative strategies from arising
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cooperation
both the donor and the recipient benefit from cooperating
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spite
both the donor and the recipient are negatively impacted
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selfishness
the donor benefits while the recipient is negatively impacted
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inclusive fitness
a measure of an organism's success in the population...based on the number of offspring, success in supporting offspring, and the ability of the offspring to then support others altruism or self sacrifice to protect offspring can improve the fitness and success of a species as a whole
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social perception/social cognition
provides the tools to make judgements and impressions regarding other people
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perceiver
person perceiving an event--> influenced by experience, motives, and emotional state
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target
refers to the person about which the perception is made
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primacy effect
idea that the first impression is often more important than subsequent impressions
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recency effect
sometimes the more recent impression/info can be more important in forming our impression of a person
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reliance on central traits
people form perceptions based on traits and personal characteristics of the target that are most relevant to the perceiver
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implicit personality thoery
categories we place other in during impression formation is based off implicit personality theory, there are assumptions people make about how different types of people, their traits, and their behavior are related...making assumptions about people based on the category in which they are placed is known as stereotyping
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halo effect
a cognitive bias in which judgements about a specific aspect of an individual can be affect by one's overall impression of the individual
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just-world hypothesis
people get what they deserve, karma, increases the likelihood that someone "blames the victim"
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self-serving bias/ self-serving attributional bias
refers to the fact that individuals will view their own success based on internal factors, while viewing failures based on external factors depression has the opposite attribution/reversed attributional bias, attributing success to external factors and failures to self
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self-enhancement
focuses on the need to maintain self-worth and can be done through internal attribution of success and external attribution of failures
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attribution theory
focuses on the tendency for individuals to infer the causes of other people's behavior
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consistency cues
refer to the consistent behavior of a person over time, more regular the behavior, the more we associate that behavior with the motives of the person
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consensus cues
relate to the extent to which a person's behavior differs from others, "matches others' behavior"
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Distinctiveness cues
refers to the extent to which a person engages in similar behavior across a series of scenarios
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correspondent interference theory
when a person unexpectedly performs a behavior that helps or hurts us, we tend to explain the behavior by dispositional attribution
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fundamental attribution error
we are generally biased toward making dispositional attributions rather than situational attributions, especially in negative contexts... assume someone is lazy or stupid over that they may have gotten ill or had a lot of other things going on
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attribute substitution
occurs when individuals must make judgements that are complex, but instead they substitute a simpler solution or apply a heuristic
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stereotype content model
attempts to classify stereotypes with respect to a hypothetical in-group using two dimensions: warmth and competence
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paternalistic sterotypes
the group is looked down as inferior, dismissed, or ignored
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self-fulfilling prophecy
stereotypes can lead to expectations of certain groups which create conditions that lead to confirmation of those expectations, a process referred to as "self-fulfilling prophecy"
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stereotype threat
the concept of people being concerned or anxious about confirming a negative stereotype about one's social group, can reduce performance, lower one's investment, etc.
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prejudice
defined as an irrational positive or negative attitude toward a person, group, or thing, prior to an actual experience with that entity
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propaganda
common way by which large organizations and political groups attempt to create prejudices in others
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power
ability of people or groups to achieve their goals despite any obstacles and their ability to control resources
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prestige
level of respect shown to a person by others
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in group
social group with which a person experiences a sense of belonging
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out group
social group with which an individual does not identify
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ethnocentrism
practice of making judgements about other cultures based on the values and beliefs of one's own culture
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cultural relativism
perception of another culture as different from one's own, but with the recognition that the cultural values, mores, and rules of a culture fit into that culture itself
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discrimination
when prejudicial attitudes cause individuals of a particular group to be treated differently from others individual--against one person institutional- against a person by an entire institution

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