exam one

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what is social psychology

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our involvement in mankind

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2 fundamental ways of understanding

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romantic and classical

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Romantic understanding

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seeing primarily at the level of immediate appearance

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classical understanding

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seeing primarily at the level of underlying form

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implicit theory

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haphazard collection of ideas about what situations and what personal characteristics are associated with certain types of behavior

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dyad

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two people

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intra terms

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you look at the world and believe that the individual as the cause

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inter terms

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looking at the world by the way of what happens between two things

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formal theory

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a set of inter-related hypothesis concerning a phenomenon

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formal theory must have ____

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parsimony

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parsimony

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fewest and simplest assumptions

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kurt lewin

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behavior is a function of a person IN an environment

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classical definition of social psychology

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an attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts feelings and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual the imagined or the implied presence of others

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why did the social in social psychology fade?

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cultural programming

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what is cultural programming

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the idea that the individual is the center and power of all things that happen in his or her life

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albert pepitone

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2 biases in social psychology

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2 biases that influence social psychology

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bias towards individualism

bias towards generality

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bias toward individualism

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social psychologist have assumed that the individual is the most important unit of analysis for understandingwhat is social

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bias toward generality

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we have assumed that the most general explanation for social behavior will be found at the individual level

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smallest unit of a social

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dyad

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Feynman

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three characteristics of sicnece

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three characteristics of science

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a special method of finding things out
a body of knowledge arising from the things found out
technology, the new things you can do when you have found something out

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first goal of research

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to do research that taxes account of underlying form

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second goal of research

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to do research that controls four other influences that would introduce error

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limitations of the experimental method

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time-patterns limit the use of experiments ethics can limit naturalism

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other research methods

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surveys | interview studies

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special knowledge

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well established theory

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interdependence theory

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makes the assumption that in order to analyze a social situation; the smallest unit is a dyad

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why are interpersonal relationships so hard to manage?

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because two different people with two different social histories with two reasonable sets of opinions and two reasonable sets of preferences

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three axioms of interpersonal life

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- fundamental defining feature of an interpersonal relationship is the requirement of interdependent or linked dependence - the fundamental difficulty of of interpersonal relationships is the requirement of interdependence or linked dependence - the requirement of interdependence becomes more difficult because so much is at stake

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what is relationship closeness determined by

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the interconnected influence the two people have each other

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independence theory

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A high degree of interdependence or closeness between two people is revealed in four properties of their interconnected (behavioral) activities

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what four properties determine interconnectivity

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frequency strength diversity duration

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types of interpersonal dependence

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exchange and communal

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best predictor of the start of a relationship is

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proximity

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sources of response interference

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endogenous exogenous indigenous

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endogenous

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unique to interaction of dyad

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exogenous

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coordinated to the external of the relationship

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indigenous

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occuring naturally

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order of nacost model

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exchange evolve through interaction transition (interference and management)

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surface contact hypothesis

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reducing prejudice by face to face contact

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CL

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what you believe you deserve to be treated in a relationship

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CLalt

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level of reward you think you can get from someone else

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3 types of social influence

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conformity compliance obedience to authority reactance theory