Class 1

Question 1

social psychology

Answer 1

scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context

Question 2

aggression

Answer 2

behavior whose purpose is to harm another (negative affect causes it)

Question 3

frustration-aggression hypothesis

Answer 3

principle stating that animals aggresswhen their goals are frustrated

Question 4

cooperation

Answer 4

behavior by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit

Question 5

group

Answer 5

collection of people who have something in common that distinguished them from others

Question 6

prejudice

Answer 6

positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their group membership

Question 7

common knowledge effect

Answer 7

tendency for group discussions to focus on information that all members share

Question 8

group polarization

Answer 8

tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than any member would have made alone

Question 9

groupthink

Answer 9

tendency for groups to reach consensus in order to facilitate interpsonal harmony

Question 10

dindividuation

Answer 10

phenomenon that occurs when immersion in a group causes people to become less aware of their individual values

Question 11

diffusion of responsibility

Answer 11

tendency for individuals to feel diminshed responsibility for their actions when they are surrounded by others who are acting the same way

Question 12

social loafing

Answer 12

tendency for people to expend less effort when in a group than when alone

Question 13

bystander intervention

Answer 13

the act of helping strangers in an emergency situation

Question 14

altruism

Answer 14

behavior that benefits another without benefitting oneself

Question 15

kin selection

Answer 15

process by which evolution selects for individuals who cooperate with their relatives

Question 16

reciprocal altruism

Answer 16

behavior that benefits another with the exception that those benefits will be returned in the future

Question 17

mere exposure effect

Answer 17

tendency for liking to increase with the frequency of exposure

Question 18

passionate love

Answer 18

experience involving feelings of euphoria, intimacy, and intense sexual attraction

Question 19

companionate love

Answer 19

experience involving affection, trust, and concern for a partner’s well-being

Question 20

comparison level

Answer 20

cost-benefit ratio that people believe they deserve or could attain in another relationship

Question 21

equity

Answer 21

state of affairs in which the cost-benefit ratios of two partners are roughly equal

Question 22

social influence

Answer 22

ability to change or direct another person’s behavior

Question 23

hedonic motive

Answer 23

motivated to experience pleasure and to avoid experiencing pain

Question 24

approval motive

Answer 24

motivated to be accept and to avoid being rejected

Question 25

accuracy motivr

Answer 25

motivated to believe what is right and to avoid believing what is wrong

Question 26

fun facts

dynamic interplay between person and situation (situations influence individuals and people don’t realize that)

fast intuitive response is to cooperate
slower deliberate response is less cooperative

social brain hypothesis that humans have huge neocortex

altruistic personality: moderately stable across time, personality might do with agreeable, empathy, moral reasoning

Answer 26

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Question 27

bystander effect

Answer 27

effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping

Question 28

with more bystanders, less people intervene

what are the bystander intervention key steps

Answer 28

fun fact

they are: notice, interpret as emergency, take responsibilty for helping, decide how to help, provide help