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Fundamental attribution theory

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The tendency when others analyzing others behavior to overestimate the influence of personal traits and underestimate the effects of the situation

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Peripheral route persuasion

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Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues; produce fast but relatively thoughtless changes in attitudes

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Central route persuasion

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Occurs when people are offered evidence and arguments to trigger thoughtful responses

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Foot in the door phenomenon

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People agreeing to a small request will find it easier to agree later to a larger one

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Role

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A set of expectations about social position defining how the person ought to behave

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Zimbardo’s experiment

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Put normal people as the guards and prisoners shit got serious

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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We act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent

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Culture

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The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people

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Norm

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Understood rules for accepted and expected behavior

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Conformity

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Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

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Mimicry

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Behavior is contagious what we see we often do

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Normative social influence

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Influence resulting from a persons desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

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Informational social influence

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Influence resulting from ones willingness to accept others opinions as new information

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Stanley Milgram’s obedience

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Strong social influence can make people conform to falsehoods or cruelty- ordinary people are corrupted by evil situations

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Social facilitation

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The presence of others arouses people, improving performance on easy or well learned tasks but decreasing it from difficult ones

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Social loafing

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The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accounted

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Deindividuation

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The loss of self awareness and self restraint occurring in a group situation

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Group polarization

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The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group

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Groupthink

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The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony within a decision making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives

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Prejudice

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Is an unjustified negative attitude toward a group and its members

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Implicit racial associations

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Implicit association test results: even people who deny racial prejudice may carry negative associations

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Unconscious patronization

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Lower expectations inflated praise and insufficient criticism for minority student achievement

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Race-influenced perceptions

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Fatigue can increase automatic reasons that amplify racial bias

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Just world phenomenon

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Good is rewarded and evil is punished

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Ingroup
"Us" people whom we identify with
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Outgroup
"Them" those perceived as different or not part of the group
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Ingroup bias
Favoring our own group
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Scapegoat theory
Proposes that when things go wrong, finding someone to blame can provide an outlet for anger
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Other race effect
The tendency to recall faces of ones own race more accurately then faces of other race
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Aggression
Any physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone physically or emotionally
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Genetic influences of aggression
Evidence from animal studies and twin studies; male Y chromosome and MAOA gene is genetic marker
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Neural influences of aggression
Neural systems facilitate or inhibit aggression when provoked Aggression more likely with frontal lobe damage
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Biochemical influences of aggression
Testosterone influences and the alcohol affect
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Frustration-aggression principle
Frustration creates anger, which can spark aggression
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Things that promote aggression
``` Reinforcement Modeling Lack of self control Cigarettes Hot temps Crowding Odors Physical pain ```
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Proximity- attraction
Geographical nearness- friendship most powerful predictor of love
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Mere exposure effect
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them
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Passionate love
Sexual desire + a growing attachment
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Companionate love
A deep affectionate attachment
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Self disclosure
Deepens intimacy
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Passion facilitating hormones
Testastorone dopamine adrenaline
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Altruism
Is an unselfish concern for the welfare of others
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Bystander effect
The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present
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Social exchange theory
Maximizes rewards and minimizes cost
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Social responsibility norm
Expectation that people should help those who depend on them
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Reciprocity norm
Expectation that people will respond favorably to each other by returning benefits for benefit
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Conflict
Perceived incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas in which people become enmeshed in potentially destructive I've processes that often produce unwanted results
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Social traps
Situation in which conflicting parties, by each pursuing their self- interest rather then the good of the group, become caught in mutually destructive behavior
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Enemy perceptions
Conflict have a tendency to form diabolical images of one another
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Mirror image perceptions
Mutual views often held by conflicting people, as when each side sees each itself as ethical and peaceful while other sad bad
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Self fulfilling prophecy
A belief that leads to its own fulfillment
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Contact
Most effective when contact is free of competition and equal status exists
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Cooperation
Cooperative contact can reduce conflict
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Communication
When real life conflicts become intense a third party meditator may facilitate communication
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Conciliation
GRIT ( graduated and reciprocated initiatives in tension reduction) is alternative to conflict, to war or surrender
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Psychological disorder
A clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion regulation or behavior
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Biopsychosocial approach
General approach positing that biological, psychological, and social culture factors all play a significant role in human functioning in the context of disease or illness
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Immigrant paradox
Those born to immigrants to the US are at greater risk of mental disorder then immigrants
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How many people have mental problems
1 out of every 4 adults
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Major depressive disorder
Is a prolonged state of hopeless depression
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Bipolar disorder
Alternates between depression and overexcited hyperactivity
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How many symptoms must u experience to have major depressive disorder
5 and 1 must be depressed mood or loss of interest
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Anorexia nervosa
Person maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight
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Bulimia nervosa
Person alternates binge eating with purging sometimes followed by fasting and excessive exercise
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Binge eating disorder
Significant binge eating followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting or excessive exercise
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Dissociative disorders
Controversial, rare disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
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Dissociative identity disorder
Rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities
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OCD
Repetitive thoughts and actions or both
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PTSD
Is characterized by haunting memories nightmares social withdraw anxiety numbness of feeling or insomnia for 4 weeks or more after a traumatic experience
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Personality disorders
Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
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Antisocial personality disorder
Shows lack of conscience for wrong doing even toward friends and family members
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Schizophrenia positive symptoms
Presence of inappropriate behavior
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Schizophrenia negative symptoms
A sense of appropriate behavior
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Generalized anxiety disorder
Person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
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Panic disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking
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Agoraphobia
Fear or avoidance of public situations from which escape may be difficult
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Phobia
Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity or situation
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Social anxiety disorder
Fear people will hate you
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The brain during depression
Brain activity slows increases during mania Norephrenephrine scarce during a depression Serotonin scarce Exercise decreases depression increase serotonin
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Rumination
Compulsive fretting overthinking about problems and their causes
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Schizophrenia
A psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and or diminished inappropriate emotional expression
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Symptoms of schizophrenia
Hallucinations, delusions, paranoid tendencies, word salad
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Schizophrenia emotions
Flat effect, impaired theory of mind
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Schizophrenia brain abnormalities
Dopamine overactivity, low active frontal lobes, vigorous thalamus and amygdala activity during hallucinations, enlarged cerebral tissues, smaller corpus callosum
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Psychotherapy
A trained therapist uses psychological techniques to assist someone seeking to overcome difficulties or achieve personal growth
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Biomedical therapy
Offers medications and other biological treatments; prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology
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Electric approach
Approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
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Psychoanalysis
Friends technique including free association resistances and dreams

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