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exam one Flashcards

1
Q

what is social psychology

A

our involvement in mankind

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2
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2 fundamental ways of understanding

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romantic and classical

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3
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Romantic understanding

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seeing primarily at the level of immediate appearance

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4
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classical understanding

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seeing primarily at the level of underlying form

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5
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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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6
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dyad

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two people

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7
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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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8
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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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9
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formal theory

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a set of inter-related hypothesis concerning a phenomenon

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10
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formal theory must have ____

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parsimony

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11
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parsimony

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fewest and simplest assumptions

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12
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kurt lewin

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behavior is a function of a person IN an environment

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13
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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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14
Q

why did the social in social psychology fade?

A

cultural programming

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15
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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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16
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albert pepitone

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2 biases in social psychology

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17
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2 biases that influence social psychology

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bias towards individualism

bias towards generality

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18
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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

19
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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

20
Q

smallest unit of a social

A

dyad

21
Q

Feynman

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three characteristics of sicnece

22
Q

three characteristics of science

A

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

23
Q

first goal of research

A

to do research that taxes account of underlying form

24
Q

second goal of research

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

25
Q

limitations of the experimental method

A

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

26
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other research methods

A

surveys

interview studies

27
Q

special knowledge

A

well established theory

28
Q

interdependence theory

A

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

29
Q

why are interpersonal relationships so hard to manage?

A

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

30
Q

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
31
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what is relationship closeness determined by

A

the interconnected influence the two people have each other

32
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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

33
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what four properties determine interconnectivity

A

frequency
strength
diversity
duration

34
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types of interpersonal dependence

A

exchange and communal

35
Q

best predictor of the start of a relationship is

A

proximity

36
Q

sources of response interference

A

endogenous
exogenous
indigenous

37
Q

endogenous

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unique to interaction of dyad

38
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exogenous

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coordinated to the external of the relationship

39
Q

indigenous

A

occuring naturally

40
Q

order of nacost model

A

exchange
evolve through interaction transition
(interference and management)

41
Q

surface contact hypothesis

A

reducing prejudice by face to face contact

42
Q

CL

A

what you believe you deserve to be treated in a relationship

43
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CLalt

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level of reward you think you can get from someone else

44
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3 types of social influence

A

conformity
compliance
obedience to authority
reactance theory

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