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What is evolutionary psychology?

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The study of evolution of cognition and behavior using principles based on natural selection.

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What are the criticisms of evolutionary psychology?

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  • It is mostly theory.
  • Can only explain what has already happened with plausible explanations.
  • It is not inherently falsifiable.
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What is natural selection?

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The evolutionary process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce.

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What is gender?

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Characteristics, whether biological or socially influenced, that we associate with males, females, or others.

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What is sex?

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Biological categories of male or female.

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What are gender roles?

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Sets of behavioral expectations for men and women.

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What is culture?

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The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

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What are social norms?

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Standards for accepted and expected behavior.

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______ think about and initiate sex more often.

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Men

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__________ are more inspired by emotional passion.

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Women

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___ seek out quantity in mating, whereas _________ seek out quality.

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Men; women

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What are the Big Five Social Beliefs?

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Cynicism, social complexity, reward for application, spirituality, fate control.

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What is conformity?

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A change in behavior or belief as the result of real or imagined group pressure.

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What are the three varieties of conformity?

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Acceptance, compliance, and obedience.

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What is acceptance conformity?

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Both acting and believing in accord with social pressure.

Ex: exercising because you believe it is healthy, whether or not you’ve done the research.

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What is compliance conformity?

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Publicly acting in accord with a request while privately disagreeing.

Ex: saying you like your friend’s spouse even though you don’t.

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What is obedience conformity?

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Acting in high accord with a direct order or command.

Ex: dress code

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What is mass hysteria?

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Suggestibility to problems that spreads throughout a large group of people.

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What are factors that breed obedience?

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  • Victim’s emotional distance.
  • Closeness/credibility of the authority.
  • Institutional authority.
  • Liberating effects of group influence.
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Central Route Persuasion occurs when:

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interested people focus on the arguments and respond with favorable thoughts.

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Peripheral Route Persuasion occurs when:

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people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker’s attractiveness.

22
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_____________________ Persuasion requires the arguments to be strong and compelling.

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Central Route

23
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What is the Sleeper Effect?

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Delayed impact of a message that occurs when an initially discounted message becomes effective, as we remember the message but forget the reason for discounting it.

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What is a group?

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Two or more people who interact with and influence one another and perceive themselves as an “us.”

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What are social roles?

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Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave in that group.

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What is social faciliatation?

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Strengthening of dominant responses whether correct or incorrect in the presence of others.

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What is evaluation apprehension?

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Concern for how others are evaluating us.

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What is social loafing?

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The tendency for people to exert less effort when they pool their effort toward a common goal than when they are individually accountable.

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What is deindividuation?

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The loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people cannot be differentiated, leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts.

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What factors lead to deindividuation?

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Group size, low self-awareness, anonymity, arousing/distracting activities,

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What is leadership?

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The process by which certain group members motivate and guide the group.

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What are the three leadership styles?

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Task leaders, Social leaders, and Transformational leaders.

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What are task leaders?

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Leaders who organize work, set standards, and focus on clear, short-term goals and reward people who meet them.

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What are social leaders?

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Leaders who build teamwork, mediate conflict, and offer support.

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What are transformational leaders?

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Leaders who inspire followers to focus on common, long-term goals.

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What is groupthinking?

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A kind of thinking in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering the facts in a realistic manner.

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What is groupthink caused by?

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Cohesive group, isolation of the group from the dissenting viewpoints, directive leader.

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What is group cohesiveness?

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Qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking between members.

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What are the 8 symptoms of groupthink?

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  1. Illusion of invulnerability.
  2. Unquestioned belief in the group’s morality.
  3. Rationalization.
  4. Stereotypes view of opponent.
  5. Conformity pressure.
  6. Self-censorship.
  7. Illusion of unanimity.
  8. Mindguards.
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What is normative influence?

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Conformity based on a person’s desire to fulfill others’ expectations, often to gain acceptance.

41
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What is informational influence?

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Conformity occurring when people accept evidence about reality provided by other people.

42
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What was Sherif’s method?

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Assessing suggestibility regarding seeming movement of light.

43
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What was Asch’s method?

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Agreement with others’ obviously wrong perceptual judgments.

44
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What was Milgram’s method?

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Complying with commands to shock another.

45
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What 8 factors predict conformity?

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  1. Difficulty of the task
  2. Group size
  3. Group unanimity
  4. Cohesiveness
  5. Public
  6. No prior commitment
  7. Status of the other group members
  8. Crisis
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What is persuasion?

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The process by which a message induces change in beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors.

47
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What is the need for cognition?

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The motivation to think and analyze.

48
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How do we resist persuasion?

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By strengthening personal commitment.

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