Identity & Social Interactions Flashcards
Counterbalancing
Presenting stimuli in a random order to eliminate the possibility of time effects
Belief perserverance
Describes the continuation of a belief despite evidence to the contrary
Attitude polarization
Phenomenon where beliefs become more charged with any evidence, regardless of its valence
Selective recall (similar to conformation bias)
Confirmation bias: refers to the seeking out and believing of information that confirms are beliefs
Selective recall: refers to an increased likelihood of remembering that information
Symbolic culture
Ticket’s perceived or assigned value based on how it could be used socially
Material culture
Related to goods or items of clear material value, not perceived or theoretical value
Organizational culture
The culture of an organization
Disparate influence on social factors
Numbers are skewed significantly
Self-fulfilling prophecy
The idea that a label can influence later behaviors
Attribution theory
Explains how we attach meaning to our own and other’s behaviors
Fundamental attribution theory
Customer is using the behavior of the agent to draw a sweeping conclusion about them
A situation that best exemplifies a relationship between two tribes that may be governed by interactions outlined in the Hawk-Dove game?
Each tribe uses the same grounds to hunt a dwindling population
Hawk-Dove game
Centered upon a struggle between two parties for a shared food source
Avoidant attachment
Associated with little separation anxiety and a tendency to resist contact with the parents
Secure attachment
Some separation anxiety and seeking contact with the parent
Anxious-ambivalent attachment
Strong separation anxiety, coupled with a tendency to resist contact with the parent
Disorganized attachment
A confused infant-parent bond that is characterized by mixed separation anxiety and a tendency for the infant to resist and have a dazed behavior
Internal working model that sets expectations about self and others
A cognitive schema; knowledge structures that determine one’s expectations in different contexts, including social interactions
Ideal bureaucracy will:
Select employees based on technical qualifications
Racial and ethnic identities are:
Institutionalized in major social structures
Antagonistic effects
Those that oppose the function of a particular molecule
Agonistic
Those that are consistent with the action of a molecule
Ignoring information that suggests that negative events are more likely than they think:
Discounting information that causes cognitive dissonance
