Ch 12 Groups, 13 Aggression, 14 Altruism Flashcards

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social facilitation

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the effect of the presence of others on performance, better or worse depends on what you’re doing

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social facilitation (+)

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having people around enhances performance

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social unfacilitation (-)

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having people around impedes performance

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when does social facilitation happen?

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when performing a simple a well learned task

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when does social unfacilitation happen?

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when performing a difficult or novel (new) task

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why were participants performances in Michaels 1982 study affected by the presence of researchers?

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evaluation apprehension (evaluate give is increased arousal and we don’t want to look bad), mere presence (make use very alert)

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social loafing

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exerting less effort when working on a group task where individual contribution can’t be monitored due to the presence of others

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When do groups make better decisions?

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if the problem is a precise factual answer

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groupthink

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thinking where maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering facts ina realistic manner

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what are the symptoms of groupthink?

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illusion of vulnerability, collective rationalization, pressure on dissenters, and illusion of unanimity

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Ways to prevent groupthink

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impartial leaders, members seek divergent opinions, subgroup that meet beforehand, seek anonymous opinions

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Risky shift

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when a person alters their decision making to more extreme choices while part of a group

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13
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approach inhibition theory of power

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power comes with a sense of control and freedom

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group polarization

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group decisions tend to be more extreme than those made by individuals

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deindividuation

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reduced sense of individual identity accompanied by increased impulsive behavior that occurs when people are in large groups

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self awareness theory

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when people focus attention on themselves they become concerned w/ self evaluation and how their current behavior conforms to internal standards and values

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individuation

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enhanced sense of individual identity produced by focusing attention on the self

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spotlight effect

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the assumption that our own appearance and behaviors are being carefully scrutinized by others when they are not

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aggression

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any act with the intent to harm

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hostile aggression

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motivated by the emotional response of wanting to hurt the other person

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instrumental aggression

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motivated by something other than hostility, like attention, acquiring resources, or advancing a cause

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situation determinants of aggression

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hot weather, media violence, social rejection, and income inequality

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How does a situation influence aggression?

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through construal

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dehumanization

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tendency to attribute nonhuman characteristics to outgroup members

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2 types of dehumanization
human nature, and human uniqueness
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catharsis
release of strong emotion to purge oneself of an impulse to behave inappropriately
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does catharsis decrease/ release anger?
no, it increases it
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culture of honor
members have strong concerns about their own and others reputations leading to hypersensitivity to insult and willingness. use violence to avenge insult or any perceived wrong
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misperception of opponents attitudes
participants estimated that their opponent's attitudes were more extreme than they were
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reactive devaluation
when we attach less value to an offer in a negotiation simply bec it was offered
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simplistic reasoning in politics
extremists have less complex attitudes/beliefs attitudes than moderates, politicians are simple and more extreme while campaigning and more complex when in office
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prosocial behavior
any action that helps another person regardless of motives
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altruism
unselfish, selfless, or other other-oriented behavior that benefits others w/out regard for consequences for oneself
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selfish motives for prosocial behavior
social rewards, positive attention that they will get from others, seeing other people suffer makes you upset (eliminates personal distress)
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Altruistic motives for prosocial behavior
genuinely identifying, feeling/ understanding what they're experiencing and truly wanting to help others
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situational determinant to prosocial behavior
being busy, presence of others, ambiguous situation, and victim characteristics
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bystander intervention
when people observing an emergency intervene and help the victim
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bystander effect
people are less likely to help other when others are present
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diffusion of responsibility
people assume others will help, so they done have to do anything
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how does ambiguity of a situation affect altruism
people are more likely to other who clearly need help, bystanders are more likely to help when they are aware the event that led to the victims' distress
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how do the victims characteristics affect altruism
if the victim is more similar tot the bystander the bystander will be more likely to help
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how does community type affect altruism
people in rural areas report more empathetic concern then people in urban areas, the smaller the community the larger the effect
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why do people in urban areas report fewer empathetic concern?
stimulus overload in bigger cities, greater diversity (people less similar), diffusion of responsibility
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how does social class affect altruism?
people making less (~25k) give a greater percentage of money the those who make more (>100k)
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religion and prosocial behavior
most religions emphasize prosocial behavior and try to motivate it by increasing empathetic concern for others
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kin selection
tendency for natural selection to favor behaviors that increase the chance of survival of genetic relatives
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reciprocal altruism
tendency to help other expecting that they will help sometime later in the future