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What 2 factors is In-group/Out-group Membership based on?

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  1. Reciprocity
  2. Transitivity/Balance theory
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Reciprocity Theory

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  • the idea that people will/should treat you the way you treat them
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Transitivity/Balance Theory

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  • we desire harmony in relationships so in our in-groups (groups we belong to), we want all of our friends to like each other
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Prejudice

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negative attitudes and THOUGHTS towards a certain group
- they’re like this because they’re part of x group

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Discrimination

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  • negative BEHAVIOUR towards a certain group; treating someone differently because of their group
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What is the difference between Prejudice and Discrimination?

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Prejudice - thoughts (cognitive)
Discrimination - behaviour

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What are the two concepts/biases formed within “Us Vs. Them” thinking

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  1. Group homogeneity bias
  2. In-group favouritism + out-group derogation
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Group Homogeneity Bias

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  • grouping people outside your group as “all the same”

eg: someone saying “all asians look the same”

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In-group favouritism

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attributing more positive qualities to our in-group and giving them preferential treatment

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Out-group derogation

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attribute negative qualities to out-group

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Categorization is our way of organizing the world and simplifying things to help us react quick, but the two negative things it can lead to are:

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prejudice, discrimination

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Why might some people be scared of immigrants according to social psychology?

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prejudice - immigrants are a threat to their in-group (the country they live in)

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Realistic Conflict Theory

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competition for limited resources fosters prejudice

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Social Identity Theory

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Prejudice stems from a need to enhance self-esteem. People will express more prejudice when they feel that an out-group is an attack to the self-esteem rooted in their in-group.

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Stereotype

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positive or negative cognitive schema that allows us to process and react faster

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What is the difference between prejudice and stereotypes?

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prejudice is negative while stereotypes can be positive OR negative

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Subtyping

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someone saying one person they know from a certain group they stereotype is the ONLY exception to the stereotype

  • eg: you’re the only exception, all other asians are like this
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Behaving towards/treating someone differently for their race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.

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discrimination

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Implicit Bias Test

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tests automatic, UNCONSCIOUS bias that cannot be seen (fast reactions to certain words or images)

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The Shooter Bias Effect is an example of what type of bias?

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implicit bias - unconscious, automatic

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Shooter Bias Effect

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example of implicit bias
- shown pics of people holding a gun or non gun object, viewer must quickly indicate shoot or don’t shoot
- No gun trials: people shoot for POC
- gun trials: people don’t shoot for white people

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A dog’s capacity to be racist is affected by:

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their owner’s implicit and explicit biases, prejudice, or discrimination

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Stereotype Threat

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The fear of prejudice about your group confirming itself and that your group will live up to those stereotypes, so you act like those stereotypes anyways.

  • if you stereotype yourself a certain way, you’ll act like that
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How to fight the effects of stereotype threats:

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self affirmation, education on this threat

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Attribution

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Judgements about causes of our own or other people’s behaviours or outcomes to give us a sense of order and expectation.

Connections between people, attributes, and behaviours.

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What would mom say the stereotype threat is like?

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a “self-fulfilling prophecy”

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Personal Attribution

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placing cause of behaviours or outcomes on internal factors

Eg: I failed an exam, I must be stupid

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Situational Attribution

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placing cause of behaviour or outcome on external forces (other people, accidents, etc.)

Eg: I failed my exam, it was because the professor is a hard marker and it was too hot to think clearly

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Types of Attributional Biases (3):

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  1. Fundamental Attribution Error
  2. Cultural Attribution
  3. Nonverbal Behaviour Attribution
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Fundamental Attribution Error

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tendency for people to underemphasize situational factors/explanations, while overemphasizing personality based factors when judging a situation

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An actor getting typecasted is an example of:

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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What type of society is the Fundamental Attribution Error more common in?

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individualist, western society - overestimating personal factors

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Collectivist societies will emphasize _______ factors in attribution.

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situational

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Nonverbal Behaviour Attribution

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judgements we make about others based on facial expressions, gestures, and movements done in a short amount of time

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Affiliations

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close associations with others

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Why do we affiliate and have close relationships with people? (5)

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  1. Evolution
  2. Companionship
  3. Intimacy
  4. Love
  5. Basic need - social contact
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Evolutionary Theory of Affiliation

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  • affiliation makes us more likely to survive: protection, reproduction
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4 specific reasons for affiliation:

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  1. Positive stimulation
  2. Receive emotional support
  3. Gain attention
  4. Social Comparison
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Social Comparison

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when we compare beliefs, feelings and behaviours to evaluate ourselves and see if we’re “normal” or fitting in with society

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4 factors of INITIAL attraction:

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  1. Physical Proximity
  2. Mere Exposure Effect / Familiarity
  3. Similarity
  4. Personal Characteristics
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Theory of Physical Proximity in Attraction:

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you are more likely to be friends with people you are often in the same area as

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Mere Exposure Affect in Attraction:

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you are attracted to people you become/are more familiar with

Eg: workplace enemies to lovers; trapped together trope; one bed trope

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Similarity Effect in Attraction:

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Birds of a feather flock together - we want people who can validate us, so we are attracted to people with similar phsyical traits, values, psychological attributes, and beliefs.

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Personal Characteristics

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People have specific characteristics they’re attracted to - we want but good people, but not too perfect they’re not relatable

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Examples of commonly desired personal characteristics:

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kind, dependable, trustworthy, reliable, competent

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Evolutionary Perspective on Attractiveness:

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attractive = better genes

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what does symmetry represent in attractiveness (evolutionary psych)

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health, high status

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what does dominance represent in attractiveness in men (evolutionary psych)

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high testosterone, wider face

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What is Beautiful is Good Stereotype

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what is beautiful is good; pretty privilege - we assume attractive people are more intelligent and sociable

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What is a synonym for the “What is Beautiful is Good” stereotype?

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Halo Effect

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Matching Effect

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People of similar physical attractiveness are drawn to each other

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Passion (in the context of love)

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intense emotional yearning, arousal, and sexual desire

(think honeymoon phase)

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What are the three attributes used in the Triangular Theory of Love?

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  1. Intimacy
  2. Passion
  3. Commitment
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passion

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romance, phsyical attraction

55
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What is the Triangular Theory of Love and how many subcategories of love does it create?

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The idea that love is defined by three attributes: intimacy, passion, and commitment, which overlap to form 7 types of love.

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7 Types of Love according to the Triangular Theory of Love

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  1. Consummate Love
  2. Empty Love
  3. Fatuous Love
  4. Infatuated Love
  5. Romantic Love
  6. Liking Love
  7. Companionate Love
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Which and how many attributes in consummate love?

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3 - intimacy, passion, commitment

58
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What is the only type of love out of the 7 types of love within the Triangular Theory of Love that has all 3 qualities/attributes overlapped?

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Consummate love

59
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3 pairs of love attributes, 3 individual love attributes, and a triplet to define 7 types of love (1112223)

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Triangular theory of love

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Fatuous love attributes

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passion and commitment

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infatuated love

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passion alone

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Romantic love

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intimacy and passion

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Liking Love

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intimacy alone

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Companionate love

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intimacy and commitment

65
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What is the main influence a group has on an individual?

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the desire to be accepted

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Social Loafing

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people don’t work as hard in a group as they do when they work alone - spend less individual effort when working in a group

67
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What social phenomenon happens when people in a group don’t care about the subject of work they’re doing?

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social loafing

68
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What phenomenon is the Collective Effort Model related to?

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Social Loafing

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What is the Collective Effort Model?

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The collective effort model explains that social loafing is more likely to occur when individual performance is not being monitored, the goal/task has little value to the person, the group is less important to the person, and the task is simple (4 factors).

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Social Loafing is more likely to occur when:
(Collective Effort Model)
(4)

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  1. Individual performance not being monitored
  2. Task/goal is of little importance to person
  3. Group is of little importance to person
  4. Task is simple, effort redundant
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Group Polarization

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  • when initial group attitudes become more extreme over time due to the nature of those in the group
  • when the AVERAGE polarization of the group becomes more extreme
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Cause of Group Polarization

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Conformity

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Normal Social Influence

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Agreeing with the group to fit in and avoid looking silly.

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Informational Social Influence

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we assume other people have accurate knowledge so we follow them - look to people around us to know what to do

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Groupthink

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suspending critical thinking to maintain agreement and cohesion - collectively being delusional together for the sake of BEING a collective

people want reassurance, even if it’s delusional

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What causes groupthink? (4)

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  1. High Stress Pressure to make Decisions
  2. Insolation from Outside Input
  3. Directive Leader who promotes agenda
  4. High group cohesion and loyalty
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Groupthink can lead to (negative):

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Bad decisions, poor reputation

78
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US ignoring threats of Japanese attacks because the country collectively wanted to stay out of the war is an example of:

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groupthink

79
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The executive scientists for the Challenger being tired and under extreme stress, and ignoring the engineers telling them the launch wasn’t a good idea, leading to the Challenger explosion is an example of:

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groupthink

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How to Maintain Groupthink (3):

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  1. Remaining impartial
  2. Critical thinking
  3. Outside perspectives
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Conformity

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a type of social influence that involves change and adjustment in individuals beliefs to fit in

82
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Solomon Ash’s line study studied the concept of

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conformity

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Factors Affecting Conformity

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  1. Group size
  2. Presence of a dissenter
  3. Type of Culture
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Milgram study obedience Factors (3)

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  1. Remoteness of victim
  2. Closeness and legitimacy of authority figure
  3. Obedience influenced when someone else doing something
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Compliance techniques

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strategies to manipulate you

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Compliance

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tendency to agree to do the things that people ask of you even when you don’t want to

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Norm of Reciprocity

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To get someone to comply, be nice to them so they OWE you later

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Door in Face Technique

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big request that they’ll say no to and then ask for normal request so that it looks reasonable in comparison and they’re more likely to agree

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Foot in Door Technique

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small request, but don’t close the door just yet, here’s a slightly bigger request -> you already did the small thing, might as well do the big one

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Attitude are made up by:

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beliefs and values

91
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attitudes influence

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behaviour

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Cognitive Dissonance Theory

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We rationalize for conflicting attitudes because people want consistency in their cognition

93
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cognitive dissonance is experienced when

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two or more cognitions contradict

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HOW is cognitive dissonance resolved?

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by changing cognitions or adding new ones

rationalizing, justifying yourself

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Counter Attitudinal Behaviour

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when we perceive our actions were chosen rather than coerced - why did i act out of character?

96
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Counter Attitudinal Behaivour can cause _______ because your idea of yourself does not match with your previous idea of yourself so you feel the need to justify and defend yourself.

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cognitive dissonance

97
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Persuasion

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involves communication to audience with surrounding context

Active + conscious effort to change mind

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Conformity Vs. Compliance Vs. Persuasion

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Conformity - changing beliefs because you want to be accepted by the group

Compliance - agreeing to something even when you don’t actually want to do it

Persuasion - active and conscious effort to change a behaviour/attitude (beliefs and values) through a message

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what is the strongest kind of persuasive message

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emotional

100
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Communicator Credibility

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credible, seems professional, attractive, likeable, relatable

  • eg: using celebrities to advertise
101
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Message (3)

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Emotion

Exposure

Two sided message to seem smart

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Audience Elaboration Likelihood model (2)

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  1. central route to persuasion
  2. Peripheral route to persuasion
103
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Central route to persuasion

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paying attention to and carefully analyzing the message if it compels you

104
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peripheral route to persuasion

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influenced by factors other than the sole message - how does the message make them FEEL, how attractive is the communicator of this message

105
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The Mere Prescence of Others Hypothesis

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presence of others can enhance or hinder the performance of different tasks

106
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Dominant response in mere presence of others hypothesis

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if people are around:

  • task is easy/well-practiced -> perform well
  • task is difficult -> more likely to mess up
107
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eusociality

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animals that are characterized by many generations living together, cooperative care of offspring, reproductive division of labour

108
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personality characteristics of eusocial species

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self-sacrificing, altruistic

109
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Example of eusocial species

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Naked mole rat

110
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Aggression

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any sort of BEHAVIOUR that inolves intention to phsyical or emotional harm another

  • liike all behaviours, it is learned
111
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Main neurotransmitter involved with aggression

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Serotonin

112
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis

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frustration leads to aggression

(This is disputed because pain also leads to it so but yeah)

113
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Psychological factors of aggression

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self-justification
attribution of intentionality
degree of empathy

114
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Biological effects of aggression (3)

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testosterone
SEROTONIN
MAO gene

115
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Prosocial Behaviours

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behaviours that have the intent of benefiting others

  • altruism, empathy, socialization, modelling
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Norms

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Social rules that are typically praised and maintained

117
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Norm of reciprocity

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reciprocate when others treat us kindly

118
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norm of social responsibility

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help others and contribute to society (make it better)

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Human Prosocial Beahivour

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willing to help others based on how similar we are to them

120
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Just-World Hypothesis

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saying some people “get hwat they deserve” so you don’t have to feel h bad for or help someone.

121
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Prosocial Modelling

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give an example of people being Prosocial, and people might follow by learning from observation

122
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Attitudes vs. Attributions

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attitude - EVALUATION of something - feelings and beliefs

attribution - cause of something - trying to understand WHY something happened

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