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#3 Exam (book terms) Flashcards

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Need for Affiliation?

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Desire to establish and maintain many rewarding interpersonal relationships

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Loneliness?

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Feeling of deprivation about existing social relations

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Mere Exposure effect?

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Phenomenon whereby the more often people are exposed to a stimulus, the more positively they evaluate that stimulus

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What-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype?

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Belief that physically attractive individuals also possess desirable personality characteristics

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Matching Hypothesis?

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Proposition that people are attracted to others who are similar in physical attractiveness

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Reciprocity?

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Mutual exchange between what we give and receive

-EX: Liking those who like us

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Hard-to-get effect?

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Tendency to prefer people who are highly selective in their social choices over those who are more readily available

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Intimate Relationship?

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Close relationship between two adults involving emotional attachment, fulfillment of psychological needs, or interdependence

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Social Exchange Theory?

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Perspective that views people as motivated to maximize benefits and minimize costs in their relationships with others

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Equity Theory?

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Theory that people are most satisfied with a relationship when the ratio between benefits and contributions is similar for both partners

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Exchange relationship?

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Relationship in which the participants expect and desire strict reciprocity in their interactions

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Communal Relationship?

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Relationship in which the participants expect and desire mutual responsiveness to each other’s needs

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Attachment Style?

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Way a person typically interacts with significant others

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Triangular Theory of Love?

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Theory proposing that love has three basic components:
-Intimacy
-Passion
-Commitment
that can be combined to produce eight subtypes

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Passionate Love?

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Romantic love characterized by high arousal, intense attraction, and fear of rejection

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Companionate Love?

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Secure, trusting, stable partnership

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Excitation Transfer?

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Process whereby arousal caused by one stimulus is added to arousal from a second stimulus and the combined arousal is attributed to the second stimulus

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Self-disclosure?

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Revelations about the self that a person makes to others

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Sexual Orientation?

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Person’s preference for members of the same sex (homo), opposite sex (hetero), or both sexes (bi)

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Prosocial Behaviors?

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Actions intended to benefit others

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Kin Selection?

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Preferential helping of genetic relatives, which results in the greater likelihood that genes held in common will survive

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Empathy?

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Understanding or vicariously experiencing another individual’s perspective and feeling sympathy and compassion for that individual

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Arousal: cost-reward model?

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Proposition that people react to emergency situations by acting in the most cost-effective way to reduce the arousal of shock and alarm

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Negative state relief model?

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Proposition that people help others in order to counteract their own feelings of sadness

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Egoistic?

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Motivated by the desire to increase one’s own welfare

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Altruistic?

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Motivated by the desire to improve another’s welfare

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Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis?

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Proposition that empathic concern for a person in need produces an altruistic motive for helping

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Bystander effect?

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Effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping

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Pluralistic Ignorance?

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State in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are different from those of the others in the group

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Diffusion of Responsibility?

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Belief that others will or should take the responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need

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Audience Inhibition?

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Reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on observers

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Social Norm?

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General rule of conduct reflecting standards of social approval and disapproval

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Aggression?

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Behavior intended to harm another individual

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Proactive (Instrumental) Aggression?

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Aggressive behavior whereby harm is inflicted as a means to a desired end (also called instrumental aggression)
-EX: mercenaries

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Reactive (emotional) Aggression?

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Aggressive behavior where the means and the end coincide; harm is inflicted for its own sake
-EX: bullying

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Social Learning Theory?

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Theory that behavior is learned through the observation of others as well as through the direct experience of rewards and punishments

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Cycle of Violence?

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Transmission of domestic violence across generations

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Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis?

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The idea that:

1) Frustration always elicits the motive to aggress
2) All aggression is caused by frustration

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Displacement?

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Aggressing against a substitute target because aggressive acts against the source of the frustration are inhibited by fear or lack of access

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Catharsis?

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Reduction of the motive to aggress that is said to result from any imagined, observed, or actual acts of aggression

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Weapons Effect?

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Tendency that the likelihood of aggression will increase by the mere presence of weapons

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Hostile Attribution Bias?

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Tendency to perceive hostile intent in others

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Rumination?

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In the context of aggression, rumination involves repeatedly thinking about and reliving an anger-induced event, focusing on angry thoughts and feelings, and perhaps even planning or imagining revenge

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Desensitization?

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Reduction in emotion-related physiological reactivity in response to a stimulus

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Cultivation?

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Process by which the mass media (particularly TV) construct a version of social reality for the public

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Pornography?

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Explicit sexual material

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Weapon-focus effect?

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Tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness’s ability to identify the culprit

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Own-Race Identification Bias?

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Tendency for people to be more accurate at recognizing members of their own racial group than of other groups

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Misinformation effect?

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Tendency for false post-event misinformation to become integrated into people’s memory of an event

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Polygraph?

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Mechanical instrument that records physiological arousal from multiple channels; it is often used as a lie-detector test

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Voir Dire?

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Pretrial examination of prospective jurors by the judge or opposing lawyers to uncover signs of bias

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Peremptory Challenge?

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Means by which lawyers can exclude a limited number of prospective jurors without the judge’s approval

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Scientific Jury Selection?

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Method of selecting juries through surveys that yield correlations between demographics a trial-relevant attitudes

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Death Qualification?

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Jury-selection procedure used in capital cases that permits judges to exclude prospective jurors who say they would not vote for the death penalty

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Jury Nullification?

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Jury’s power to disregard, or “nullify,” the law when it conflicts with personal conceptions of justice

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Leniency Bias?

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Tendency for jury deliberation to produce a tilt towards acquittal

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Sentencing Disparity?

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Inconsistency of sentences for the same offense from one judge to another

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Adversarial Model?

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Dispute resolution system in which the prosecution and defense present opposing sides of the story

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Inquisitorial Model?

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Dispute resolution system in which a neutral investigator gather evidence from both sides and presents the findings in court

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Empathic Joy?

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The pleasure one has at seeing another person experience relief

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Courageous Resistance?

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Sustained and deliberate helping, which may lead to enormous costs
-EX: hiding jews during the Holocaust

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Moral hypocrisy?

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People try to convince others that they are driven to help others when they really have selfish reasons

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Overhelping?

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helping someone who doesn’t need help for personal gain

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