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Behavioral Sciences Ch 10. Social Thinking Flashcards

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Interpersonal attraction

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Makes people like each other and is influenced by multiple factors including physical attractiveness, similarity of attitudes, intelligence, education, height, age, religion, and socioeconomic status, self disclosure, reciprocity, and proximity

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Golden ratio

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As someone symmetry and proportions are closer to the golden ratio, the person is seen as more physically attractive

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Self-disclosure

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Includes sharing fears, thoughts, and goals with another person and being met with empathy and nonjudgment

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Reciprocity

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We Like people who we think like us

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Proximity

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Being physically close to someone

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Aggression

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Physical, verbal, or nonverbal behavior with the intention to cause harm and increase social dominance

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Attachment

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Emotional bond to another person and usually refers to the bond between a child and a caregiver

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Types of attachment

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Secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized

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Secure attachment

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Requires a consistent caregiver so the child is able to go out and explore knowing he or she has a secure base to return to, the child will show strong preference for the caregiver

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Avoidant attachment

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Occurs when a caregiver has little or no response to a distressed, crying child, the child has no preference for the caregiver compared to strangers

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Ambivalent attachment

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Hers went to caregiver has an inconsistent response to a child’s distress, sometimes responding appropriately sometimes neglectful, the child will become distressed when caregiver leaves and is ambivalent when he or she returns

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Disorganized attachment

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Occurs when a caregiver is erratic or abusive, the child has no clear pattern of behavior in response to the caregivers absence or presence and may show repetitive behaviors

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Social support

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

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Emotional support

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Includes listening to, affirming, or empathizing with someone’s feelings

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Esteem support

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Affirmed the qualities and skills of the person

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Material support

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Providing physical or monetary resources to eat a person

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Informational support

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Providing useful information to a person

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Network support

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Providing a sense of belonging to a person

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Foraging

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Searching for and exploiting food resources

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Mating system

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Describes the way in which a group is organized in terms of sexual behavior

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Monogamy

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Consists of exclusive mating relationships

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Polygamy

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Consists of one member of a sex having multiple exclusive relationships with members of the opposite sex, includes polygyny and polyandry

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Polygyny

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A Male with multiple females

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Polyandry

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A female with multiple mains

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Promiscuity

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Allows a members of one sex to mate with any member of the opposite sex without exclusivity

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Mate choice

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aka intersexual selection, the selection of a mate based on attraction and traits

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Intersexual selection

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aka mate choice, the selection of a mate based on attraction and traits

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Altruism

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A form of helping behavior in which the persons intent is to benefit someone else at some cost to him or herself

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Game theory

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Attempts to explain decision making between individuals as if they are participating in a game

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Inclusive fitness

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A measure of an organisms success in the population, this is based on the number of offspring, success in supporting offspring, and the ability of the offspring to then support others

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Social perception

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aka social cognition, the way by which we generate impressions about people in our social environment

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Social cognition

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aka social perception, the way by which we generate impressions about people in our social environment

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Implicit personality theory

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States that people make assumptions about how different types of people, their traits, and their behavior are related

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Primary effect

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Refers to when first impressions are more important than subsequent impressions

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Recency effect

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When the most recent information we have about an individual is the most important informing our impression

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Reliance on central traits

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The tendency to organize the perception of others based on traits and personal characteristics that matter to the perceiver

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Halo effect

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When judgments of an individual’s characters can be affected by the overall impression of the individual

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Just world hypothesis

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The tendency of individuals to believe that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people

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Self-serving bias

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Refers to the fact that individuals will view their own success as being based on internal factors while viewing failures is being based on external factors

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Attribution theory

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Focuses on the tendency for individuals tend for the causes of other peoples behavior

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Dispositional or internal causes

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Those that relate to the features of the person whose behavior is being considered

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Situational or external causes

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Those related to features of the surroundings or social context

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Correspondent inference theory

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Used to describe attributions made by observing the intentional (especially unexpected) behaviors performed by another individual

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Fundamental attribution error

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The bias towards making dispositional attribution’s brother than situational attribution’s in regards to the actions of others

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Attribute substitution

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Occurs when individuals must make judgments that are complex but instead substitute a much simpler solution or heuristic

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Stereotypes

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Occurring attitudes and impressions are made based on limited and superficial information about a group or a group of individuals

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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A process where stereotypes can lead to expectations of certain groups, which can create conditions that lead to confirmation of the stereotypes

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Stereotype threat

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Concern or anxiety about confirming a negative stereotype that one’s social group

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Prejudice

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Find us an irrational positive or negative attitude towards a person, group, or thing prior to an actual experience

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Ethnocentrism

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Refers to the practice of making judgments about other cultures based on the values and beliefs of one owns culture

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In group

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A social group in which a person experiences a sense of belonging

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Out group

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Refers to a social group in which an individual does not identify

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Cultural relativism

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Refers to the recognition that social groups and cultures should be studied on their own terms

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Discrimination

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When prejudicial attitudes cause individuals of a particular group to be treated differently from others

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Individual discrimination

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Refers to one person discriminating against a particular person or group

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Institutional discrimination

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Refers to the discrimination against a particular person or group by an entire institution

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