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Interpersonal Attraction and factors that affect

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Individuals liking each other: Similarity, Self-Disclosure, Reciprocity, and Proximity

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What’s considered Physically Attractive

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Golden body ratios and symmetrical faces

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Attraction of Similarity

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More attracted to people who are similar to us in any way. (can even be complimentary)

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Self-Disclosure

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Ability to share one’s thoughts and emotions and being met with nonjudgmental empathy. (has to be met by other person)

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Reciprocal Liking

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People like others better when they believe the other person likes them.

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Attraction of Proximity

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Just being physically close to someone leads to higher attraction.

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Mere Exposure Effect

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More frequent exposure leads to someone preferring it more.

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Aggression and Related Biological + Social Factors

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Behavior that is intended to cause harm or social dominance.

  • Amygdala + prefrontal cortex: modulate aggression
  • Testosterone = aggressive behaviors.
  • Watching violent media can prime aggression
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Cognitive Neoassociation model

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More likely to respond aggressively when we are frustrated or in pain.

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Attachment and the different types SAAD

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Emotional bond between caregiver and child during infancy.

  1. Secure
  2. Avoidant
  3. Ambivalent
  4. Disorganized
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Secure Attachment

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Secure base: Will explore, distress when leaving, comforted when returning.
If not is called insecure attachment

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Avoidant Attachment

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When caregiver has little to no response to distressed child usually. Little to no distress when caregiver leaves, little to no comfort when returning

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Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment

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Inconsistent response to distress.

Very distressed on separation but mixed response when the caregiver returns. Anxious about realiability

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Disorganized Attachment

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No clear patter of behavior in response. Can react in a mix to return and leaving of caregiver. Caused by erratic or social withdrawal by caregiver – abuse.

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Social Support and the Different Types

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Perception and reality that one is cared for by social network

  • Emotional
  • Esteem
  • Tangible
  • Informational
  • Network
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Emotional Support

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Listening, Affirming, and empathizing with feelings

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Esteem support

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Affirming qualities and skills of a person to bolster confidence.

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Material Support

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Type of financial or material contribution

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Informational Support

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Providing information that helps someone.

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Network support

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Support that gives a sense of belonging.

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Benefits of Social Support

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Less prone to anxiety and depression (mental disorders)
Less prone to go into substance abuse.
Lower mortality rate from different diseases.

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Foraging and Aspects

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Seeking out food and energy at the least cost possible driven by many influences.

  • Hypothalamus
  • Genetics
  • Observational Learning
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Mating System

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Organization of group’s sexual behavior

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Monogamy, Polygamy, and Promiscuity

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Monogamy: only one partner exclusive
Polygamy: Polygyny: multiple women one man
Polyandry: multiple men one women.
Promiscuity: Having mating with anyone without exclusivity.

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Mate Choice (intersexual selection)
Selection of mate by attraction
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Mate bias
The choosy aspect of selecting a mate that increase a fitness of the species.
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Indirect vs Direct Benefits
Direct benefits: provide material, protection, support | Indirect benefits: promote better genetic survival of offspring
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Five mechanisms of Mate Choice PSFIG
Phenotypic benefits: observable traits that make more attractive Sensory bias: development of trait to match preexisting preference that exists in the population. Fisherian runaway: a neutral or harmful trait is sexually selected for overtime. Indicator traits: signify good health and well-being. Genetic Compatibility: Complimentary genetics (attraction to others with different genetic makeups)
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Altruism
Form of helping behavior to benefit another to a cost to someone (can have ulterior motives) can be evolutionary favored to benefit the species as a whole.
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Empathy and the empathy-altruism hypothesis
Individual helps the other person the more empathy regardless of cost. (but maybe more benefits > costs)
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Game Theory (evolutionary)
Unconscious decision making to predict interaction and strategies of species of increasing their fitness as a whole.
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Evolutionary stable strategy
A certain ratio of different strategies in which natural selection selecting against any other strategies.
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Four outcomes of Evolutionary game theory
1. Altruism (-/+) 2. Spite (-/-) both negatively impacted 3. Cooperation (+/+) 4. Selfishness (+/-)
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Inclusive Fitness
Measure of organism's genetic success in population including himself' offspring and similar family genetics.
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Social Perception (cognition)
provides the tools to make judgements and impressions regarding other people.
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Perceiver, Target, and the Situation
Perceiver: Influenced by experience, motives, and emotions Target: Person who is target of our judgement Situation: Social context determines what information is important.
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Primacy and Recency Affect of Impression
Usually first impressions or most recent information is what determines how we view the person.
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Reliance on Central Traits
Individuals organizing perception of others with traits that are most relevant to the perceiver.
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Implicit Personality Theory
Set of assumptions individuals will make about different types of people and their behaviors. (stereotyping)
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Halo effect
When subsequent judgements about an individual are affected by the overall impression of that individual. can be caused by attractiveness.
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Just-World Hypothesis
Good things happen to good people, bad things to bad people.
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Self-Serving Bias
Individuals will attribute positives to dispositional, and negatives to situational about themselves.
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Self-enhancement and self-verification
Self-Enhancement: maintaining self-worth | Self-Verification: seek people who see them as they see themselves.
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In-group Bias vs Out-group Bias
In-group bias: Favoring your group more heavily | Out-group bias: view outside individuals harshly.
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Attribution theory
How individuals infer the causes of other people's behavior.
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Consistency, Distinctiveness, and Consensus Cues
Consistency: The more consistent the more dispositional Consensus: deviation of group is dispositional Distinctiveness: if it varies in different scenarios situational
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Correspondent Inference Theory
Intentionality of other's behavior can be determinant of attribution.
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Tendency to bias that others actions are caused by dispositional rather than situational. (since it's easier to assume its the person rather than guess the situation)
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Attribute Substitution
Individuals must make judgements that are complex but apply a simple heuristic.
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Individualism vs Collectivism
Individualist equate success to self, failure to group | Collectivists equate success to group, failure to self.
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Stereotypes
The cognition component of expectations, impressions, and opinions about members of a group.
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Stereotype Content Model and the four outcomes
Decide stereotypes through two dimensions: warmth and competence. Warm/Low Competence: paternalistic (ignored) Warm/High Competence: admiration Cold/Low Competence: Contemptuous (homeless) Cold/High Competence: Envious (rich people)
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
False expectations can create conditions that cause the expectation to become a reality.
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Stereotype Threat
When a negative stereotype pressures an individual which causes them to reduce performance on a task.
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Prejudice
Affective component attitude against something.
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Propaganda
Public attempt to arouse prejudice against others.
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Power, Prestige, and Class
Power: Ability of people to achieve goals against obstacles. Prestige: Level of respect shown by others Class: Socioeconomic status.
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Ethnocentrism vs Cultural Relativity
Ethnocentrism: Making judgements about other cultures based on your own culture. Cultural relativism: Recognition that social groups and cultures should be studied on their own terms.
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Discrimination
Prejudicial attitudes cause differential treatment towards others.
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Individual vs Institutional Discrimination
Individual: one person discriminating against a group Institutional: Discrimination by an entire institution (harder to remove)

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