ap psych pt 2

Question 1

mere exposure effect

Answer 1

Prefrence for things becasue they are familair with them

Question 2

Proximity

Answer 2

The boy next door phenomenon

The mere exposure effect

Acquaintance/ reciprocal liking

You like someone more when they like you

Question 3

equity

Answer 3

theroy of justice regarding that individual are likely to view as a fair return from actvitaing themselves

Question 4

self disclosure

Answer 4

sharing personal info

Question 5

social exchange theory

Answer 5

decisions made by conscioulsy or un counsouly measuring the cost and rewards

Question 6

superordinate goals

Answer 6

a goal that takes preedence over one or more conditional goals

Question 7

reciprocity

Answer 7

in many social situations we pay back what we received from others

Question 8

attitude

Answer 8

a set of belief or feeling

Question 9

self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 9

an expectations that causes you to act in ways that makes that expertation come true

Question 10

attribution theory

Answer 10

describes how we tend to explain someone behaviros in terms of either the situation or the persons disposition

Question 11

fundemental attribution error

Answer 11

the tendency to for observer when analyzing another behavior to underestimate the impact of the situation

Question 12

actor- observer bias

Answer 12

a tendency to attribute ones own action to external causes while attributin others personate behavior to internal causes

Question 13

collective cultures

Answer 13

emphasze the needs and goals of the group as whole over the needs and desire of each indivudual

Question 14

individualistic cultures

Answer 14

those that stress the needs of the individual over the needs of the group as a whole

Question 15

False consensus effect

Answer 15

the overestimation of the degree to which everybody else thinks or acts the way we do

Question 16

postive illusion

Answer 16

Positive views of the self that are not necessarily rooted in reality

Question 17

Self-serving bias:

Answer 17

Tendency to take credit for our successes and deny responsibility for our failures

Question 18

Just world bias

Answer 18

the tendency to think bad things happen
to bad people- so you blame the victim

Question 19

blaming the vicitm

Answer 19

the tendency to think bad things happen to bad people so you blame the victim

Question 20

cognitive dissonance

Answer 20

individual’s psychological
discomfort caused by two
inconsistent thoughts

Question 21

foot in the door

Answer 21

Person who agrees to a small request is
later more likely to comply with a larger demand

Question 22

Door in the Face

Answer 22

if you refuse large requests then more likely to comply with a smaller one

Question 23

Low ball technique

Answer 23

getting a person committed to an act
and then making the terms of acting less desirable

Question 24

Norms of reciprocity

Answer 24

people think that when someone
does something nice for them they ought to do something
nice in return

Question 25

agression

Answer 25

refers to social behavior whose objective is
to harm someone either physically or emotionally

Question 26

frustration aggression principel

Answer 26

the feeling of frustration makes aggression more likely

Question 27

hostile aggression

Answer 27

no clear purpose

Question 28

instrumental aggression

Answer 28

an indivudual intentionally acts aggressivly to achieve a paticular purpose

Question 29

catharsis

Answer 29

is an emotional release. The term itself comes
from the Greek katharsis meaning “purification” or “cleansing.”

Question 30

altruism

Answer 30

an unselfish interest in helping another person

Question 31

bystander effect

Answer 31

tendency of an indivudual who observes an emergency to help less when other peopel are present

Question 32

diffusion of responsibility

Answer 32

when people who need to make a decison wait for soemone else to act