CH10 Social Thinking Flashcards
Interpersonal Attraction factors
Aggressiveness (cognitive neoassociation model)
Physical characteristics, similarity, self-disclosure, reciprocity, and proximity
cognitive neoassociation model: more likely to respond aggressively when feeling negative (i.e hungry, in pain)
- Avoindant attachement
- Ambivalent attachment
- Disorganized attachment
- Avoidant attachment: caregiver has no response to a distressed child = no mention when caregiver leaves or arrives
- Ambivalent attachment: inconsistent response by caregiver. Cause a child to be in distressed when separated, but has mixed response when the caregiver returns (high anxiety)
- Disorganized attachment
- Altruism and empathy
- Spite (how is affected?)
- Selfishness (how is affected?)
- Game theory
- Altruism: helping behavior in which the intent is to benefit someone else at some cost Empathy: the ability to experience the emotions of another
- Spite (how is affected?): both the donor and recipient are negatively impacted
- Selfishness (how is affected?): the donor benefits and the recipient is negatively impacted
- Game theory: explain decision-making behavior.
Stereotypes:
- Self0fulfilling prophecy
- stereotype threat
Prejudice
Ethnocentrism
Stereotypes: attitudes and impressions are based on limited and superficial information about a person or a group
- Self0fulfilling prophecy: expectations from stereotypes lead to confirmation of the stereotype
- stereotype threat: concern or anxiety to confirm a negative stereotype about one’s social group
Prejudice: Preconsicved opinion not based on facts or actual experience
Ethnocentrism: make judgments about other cultures based on the values and beliefs of one’s own culture
polygyny and polyandry
Vendomitrial hypothalamus injury and effect on food intake
Indirect and direct phenotypic benefits in matting
attribution types:
dispositional vs situational
which on is internal and which on is external
