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Final Exam Flashcards

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social psychology

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the study of how social influence on behavior

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social thinking

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the process in our mind we go through trying to make sense of others thoughts

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Heider

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creator of attribution theory

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attribution theory

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how someone might explain another’s behavior

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situational attribution

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you think that someone might not act like this all the time (usually only thought if you know the persons personality)

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dispositional attribution

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you think it’s the person’s personality instead of situational (usually happens with strangers)

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fundamental attribution error

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The tendency to make dispositional attributions about others and underestimate the influence of the situation and shaping peoples behavior

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attitudes

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an attitude is a set of emotions, beliefs, and behaviors towards a particular person/group

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Beliefs

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stereotype???

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Central route persuasion

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Giving solid logical evidence to convince somebody to do something

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Peripheral route persuasion

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Using role models and celebrities and bullshit like that to convince somebody to do something

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Foot in the door phenomenon

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if someone already started doing something, they are more likely to follow through with the rest of it

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social roles

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Based on the role you play, you will act a certain way

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Festinger

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created the theory of cognitive dissonance

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cognitive dissonance

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When your actions don’t match up with your beliefs, so your change your beliefs to match up with your actions

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Social influence

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how people around you influence your behavior

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Conformity

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Submission (to a request)

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Asch

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well known for conformity experiments

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Milgram

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experiments of obedience (to authority)

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social norms

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the way one is expected to act to fit in

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obedience

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an order (from authority) that causes behavior

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social facilitation

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The way you perform based off if people are watching. If you’re good at something you perform even better if you’re bad at something you perform even worse.

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social relations

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any relationship or interaction between two more individuals

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antisocial relations

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The opposing group that you are not in and how you act towards those people

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In group

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The group you are in

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Outgroup

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The group you are not in

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in group bias

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in group bias is the tendency to favor ones group over other groups. in group bias, it effects our perception of others, giving preferential treatment to a member of our own group excluding other groups.

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Prejudice

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how do you think of a certain group and the discriminatory actions you take.

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Stereotypes

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Small little prejudices, everybody knows

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Discrimination

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The process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on their groups

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Racial prejudice

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How do you think a group of race should act

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explicit prejudice

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Things that you believe and you know you believe

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Implicit prejudice

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things you aren’t exactly aware that you believe

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implicit association test

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A test that tests your implicit prejudice

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priming

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A technique in which the introduction of one stimulus influences how people respond to a subsequent stimulus

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Just world phenomenon

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The belief in karma

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Scapegoat theory

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The tendency to blame someone else for one’s own problems

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Own race bias

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The phenomenon by which own race faces are better recognizing faces of another race

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prosocial relations

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The relationship relationships you have with friends and lovers

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attraction

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The amount you want to be friends or be in love with someone

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proximity

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The closer you are to somebody and the more you see them the more likely you will be to fall in love or be good friends

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mere exposure effect

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Being around somebody a lot will help you become friends or lovers by getting closer to them

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Physical characteristics

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if someone is attractive, you’re more likely to like them right off the bat

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Passionate love

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Sympathetic immune system arousal paired with cognitive appraisal. arousal from any source can enhance one motion or another depending on how we interpret and label the arousal.

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autonomic arousal

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Immune system arousal due to passionate love

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companionate love

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After passionate love wears off companionate love stays. this love keeps sexual attraction but isn’t obsessive like before.

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equity

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Equal treatment of both partners

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self-disclosure

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Becoming vulnerable with the other to bond

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anxiety disorders

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mental health disorder characterized by feelings of WORRY ANXIETY OR FEAR that are strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities

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generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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constantly worrying without being able to control it

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panic disorder

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anxiety that causes panic attakcd

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specific phobia

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anxiety you get over very specific things

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obsessive compulsive disorder

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Excessive thoughts (obsessions) that lead to repetitive behaviors (compulsions).

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obsessions

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Excessive thoughts

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compulsions

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repetitive behavior

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PTSD

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anxiety and other awful symptoms over past event

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exposure therapy

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being exposed to something that causes anxiety to change the anxiety about it

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depressive disorders

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disorders that involve depression

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depression

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mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest

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major depressive disorder

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A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.

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seasonal affective disorder

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seasonal depression

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light therapy

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literally therapy by light exposure (winter depression)

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bipolar disorder

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back and forth from mania to depression

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mania

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excessive positive emotion

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