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What is the nomothetic approach to studying personality?

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Looking for patterns i.e. similarities and differences

Comparing large numbers

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What is the idiographic approach to studying personality?

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Understand unique structure of an individual’s personality

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What are personality traits?

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Personality traits are enduring patterns of behaviour, thought and feeling that are relatively consistent across a wide variety of situations and contexts

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How did Child, 1968, describe personality?

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Personality has been described as more or less stable, internal factors that make one’s behaviour consistent from one time to another, and different from the behaviour other people would manifest in comparable situations

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What are traits?

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Traits describe the most basic and general dimensions upon which individuals are typically perceived to differ

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What are examples of the stable internal factors which personality consists of?

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Instincts, goals, desires, beliefs, motives, attitudes and motivational states

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What is a trait of anxiety vs state of anxiety?

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Trait- “the disposition to respond with anxiety to situations that are perceived as threatening”
State- “a condition of the organism characterised by subjective feelings of apprehension and heightened autonomic nervous system anxiety”

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Why can Cattell’s trait theory be described as “bottom up”?

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Start with observations of life and construct a theory based on these observations

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What did Cattell say about the words in the English language and personality traits?

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Cattell argued that the words in the English language provide useful information about the main personality traits, because any important aspect of individual differences would be represented by some relevant words

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How many personality factors/source traits were identified?

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Why is Eysenck’s trait theory described as a top down theory?

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Started with theory then tested to see if it worked

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What are Eysenck’s 2 type dimensions?

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Extroversion-Introversion

Emotional stability-neuroticism

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How can extroversion-introversion be hereditary?

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Eysenck thought it was to do with reticular activating system- extroverts habitually low cortical arousal, seek strong stimuli- introverts habitually high cortical arousal, avoid strong stimuli
Introverts conditioned easily, extroverts with difficulty

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How can emotional stability-neuroticism be hereditary?

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Eysenck thought that it was to do with the autonomic nervous system- high neuroticism = strong and fast reaction to stress, low neuroticism= weak and slow reaction to stress

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What are the big five traits that are consistently found?

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Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
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What is situationism?

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People’s behaviour is not consistent across situationism/social learning theory
Situation is more important that ‘personality’ on behaviour

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How has situationism been criticised?

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Funder and Ozer (1983) found that situations are no better than traits at predicting differences in behaviour 30% variance in both

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What is interactionism?

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Situation and personality interact

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What are the four levels of interaction in interactionism?

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Effect strength
Opposing effects
Choice effects
Participation effects

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What is effect strength?

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Traits can vary strength of an effect

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What is opposing effects?

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Traits reverse direction of an effect

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What is choice effects?

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Different personality –> choose different situations

i.e. extroverts pick white water rafting whilst introverts pick country walks

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What is participation effects?

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Different personality –> others behave differently –> different situations

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What is constructivism?

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Personality constructed out of beliefs

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What are the five steps to the confirmation of expectancies?

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Observer has expectancy about target
Observer acts in a certain way towards target
Target responds
Observer interprets target's response
Target interprets their own response
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What are the four major forms of behavioural measures to assess personality?

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Questionnaires
Ratings
Objective tests
Projective tests

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How might questionnaires be used to assess personality?

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People are required to decide whether various statements about their feelings and behaviour are true or not
Quick and easy to administer

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How might ratings be used to assess personality?

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The observer produces ratings of other people’s behaviour

Raters are given a list of different kinds of behaviour, and rate the ratees on these behaviours

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How might objective tests be used to assess personality?

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Measure behaviour under laboratory conditions in such a way that the subjects do not know what the experimenter is looking for

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How might projective tests be used to assess personality?

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The essence of a projective test is that the subject is given a rather unstructured task to perform, such as making up a story to fit a picture or describing what can be seen in an inkblot, this will help reveal their innermost selves.

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What is the most common way of assessing personality?

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By self-report questionnaire

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What is self-actualisation?

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Drive towards wholeness ‘congruence’

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What is actualisation?

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Inborn drive for fullest potential

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What is the need for positive regard?

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Acceptance, love, friendship of others

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What is the conflict between self-actualisation and the need for positive regard?

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striving to meet others/own conditions of worth is an obstacle to attaining true potential

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Who came up with non-directive/client-centred therapy?

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Rogers

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Describe client-centred therapy

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Place of unconditional positive regard, work through problems, leads to self-actualisation

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Who came up with the hierarchy of needs?

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Maslow

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What is the hierarchy?

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Pyramid from primitive and most demanding to distinctly human & least demanding

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What is the focus of the hierarchy of needs?

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Self-actualisation

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Who came up with the personal construct theory?

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Kelly

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Describe the personal construct theory

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Phenomenological - people’s experience of reality
the need to organise and predict
Person as scientist- understand through predictions

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What is a construct?

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A way in which 2 things are similar and thereby different from a third

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What are some characteristics of personal constructs?

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Predictive efficiency
Range of convenience
Focus of convenience
Permeability

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What are some systems of constructs?

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Hierarchical organisation

Openness to change

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What are the possible elements of reportory grids?

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Personal characteristics
Other characteristics of people
Things
Events
Situations
Beliefs
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What are reportory grids used in?

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Therapy
Market research
Training

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What are the advantages of repgrids?

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Personal fit
Flexibility
Multiple methods of analysis- deep qualitative or computer based

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What are disadvantages of repgrids?

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Need to articulate

Choice of constructs by - ease of access, ease of explanation, not necessarily importance

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What are the components of personality according to Freud?

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The Id, the ego and the superego

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What are the levels of consciousness according to Freud?

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The conscious
The pre-conscious
The unconscious

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What is the conscious?

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Currently aware

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What is the pre-conscious?

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Not currently aware but little effort

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What is the unconscious?

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No direct access

Once in, never out

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Describe the Id

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Biological drives & instincts
Entirely unconscious
Uncontrolled, uninhibited
Instant gratification

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Describe the ego

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Dealing with reality
Cognitive functions - e.g. perception, memory, attention, self
Conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious

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Describe the superego

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Moral ethics
Ego-ideal
Conscience
Judges of actions/thoughts/behaviour

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What are the stages of psychosexual development?

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The oral stage
The anal stage
The phallic stage
The latency period
The genital stage
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What happens in the oral stage of psychosexual development?

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Pleasure from mouth- sucking and biting

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What happens in the anal stage of psychosexual development?

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Pleasure from anus- toilet training

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What happens in the phallic stage?

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Pleasure from masturbation

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What happens in the latency period?

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Attention to external world

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What happens in the genital stage?

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Sexuality directed at sexual partner

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What does fixation determine?

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Personality type

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What happens with fixation at the oral stage?

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Overindulged= optimistic, trusting, manipulative
Deprived= pessimistic, sarcastic, argumentative
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What happens with fixation at the anal stage?

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Anal expulsive= messy, generous, hostile

Anal retentive= miserly, rigid, obsessed

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What happens with fixation at the phallic stage?

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The oedipus complex- mother love -> sexual desire, hostility to father -> castration anxiety, transformed to identification with mother
The electra complex- father love -> sexual desire, penis envy -> hostility to mother, transformed to identification with mother

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What are some of the mechanisms of defence?

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Repression
Denial
Rationalisation
Displacement
Sublimation
Projection
Reaction formation
Regression
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What is repression?

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A lid on negative energy

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What is denial?

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Unconscious refusal to believe

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What is rationalisation?

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Find reason after action

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What is displacement?

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Move to safer target

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What is sublimation?

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Socially aceptable displacement

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What is projection?

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Self-> other belief

e.g. own aggression-> belief in hostile world

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What is reaction formation?

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Conversion to opposite
Sign = overdoing it
e.g. overprotecting, oversexual

76
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What is regression?

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Revert to stages fixated at

77
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What does psychoanalytic therapy focus on?

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Working through fixations

78
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Why is Freud critiqued?

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Not empirically testable/berifiable

Observed sample- clinical population, victorians- 100 years ago

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Who is Carl Jung and what were his views?

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Freud’s protege, however disagreed with him
Named his psychology analytical psychology
Jung thought sexual was not so important

80
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What did Jung say were the components of personality?

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Ego
Personal unconscious
Collective unconscious

81
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What were Alfred Adler’s five basic Adlerian principles?

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Socially embedded
Self-determining
Goal-directed
Subjective
Holistic
82
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Describe Adler’s socially embedded principle

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One of our drives is social interest
Humans as social beings
Contrasts with biological/hereditarian view

83
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Describe Adler’s self-determining principle

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We decide
We can change
Contrasts with mechanistic/deterministic view

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Describe Adler’s goal-directed principle

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Pulled by goals/finalisms
Fictional goals- the story we tell about the world shapes what we do
Strike toward- security/safety, importance/significance
Contrasts with causal view

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Describe Adler’s subjective principle

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Truth not absolute- determined by how we feel about it

Contrasts with absolutist view

86
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Describe Adler’s Holistic principle

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Whole=more that sum of its part
Dividing into parts misses essence of person
Contrasts with reductionist view

87
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What is the family constellation?

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Central interest of Adler

Role of birth order in the family impacts personality

88
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What are 2 key mechanisms of family constellation?

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Sibling de-identification

Parental stereotypes * beliefs

89
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What is sibling de-identification?

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Efforts to become different to each other- different identity, different attributes, different activities

90
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How were first borns believed to be?

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Intelligent responsible, obedient, stable

Not emotional or creative

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How were middle borns believed to be?

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Envious

Not bold or talkative

92
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How were last borns believed to be?

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Emotional, creative, talkative, extroverted

Not responsible or obedient

93
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What were the army tests?

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Tests of WWI recruits

94
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What were the two versions of the army tests?

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Army alpha- written exam for literates

Army beta- pictorial exam for illiterates

95
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What were the problems with army tests?

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Not equivalent, beta didnt require literacy, other things may affect scores

96
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What is factor analysis?

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Correlations between things (rather than just pairs)

97
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What was the two-factor model of IQ?

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Common properties of general intelligence
No common aspects of each test
Specific information

98
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What were some IQ challenges?

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Stereotype threat

99
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What is naive realism?

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The idea that people tend to see themselves as objective, rational people who perceived the world and others ‘as it is’

100
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What are examples of the bias blind spot?

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Equality hypocrisy- People will say that equality is important to them, but a few questions will give responses that show they value some groups more than others

101
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What evidence is there for naive realism?

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People given participants for pro or anti death penalty evidence, information was the same, numbers swapped, ppts believed evidence that matched their moral position

102
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What is Terror Management Theory?

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We want to live but we know that we are doomed
Our unique awareness of death separates us from other animals
Culture is a human creation that helps us cope with this awareness

103
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What are the cultural world views in terror management theory?

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Provide people with symbolic or literal immortality, as well as a sense of coherence
Are defended more when mortality is salient

104
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What is self-esteem in terror management theory?

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Serves as a barometer of how well a person is living up to their cultural worldviews
Self-esteem is generally an anxiety buffer
It is defended as well more when mortality is salient

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What is social facilitation?

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The mere presence of others

106
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What studies are there of social facilitation?

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Allport (1924) audience & co-actors improved performace “social facilitation”

107
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What is conformity?

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A deep seated private and enduring change in behaviour and attitudes due to a group pressure

108
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Who did the line judgement task?

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Asch

109
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What is persuasion?

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When others TRY to influence us

110
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What problems are there with persuasion?

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Many elements that interact in complex ways

111
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What features does a communicator have in persuasion?

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Credibility
Attractiveness
Similarity

112
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What is human aggression?

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Human aggression is any behaviour directed toward another individual that is carried out with the proximate intent to cause harm. In addition, the perpetrator must believe that the behaviour will harm the target, and then the target is motivated to avoid the behaviour

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What is Freud’s aggressive instinct theory of aggression?

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The death instinct

Aggressive urges= normal, healthy and innate

114
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What is catharsis?

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Reduction of aggressive urges via aggressive expression

115
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What is the ethology theory of aggression?

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Aggression as innate & genetic

Promotes survival of the fittest- ensuring strongest & healthiest become parents/leaders

116
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What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?

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Aggression NOT innate, frustration = cause of aggression, aggression is the dominant response to frustration
Aggression can be displaced- target or reaction

117
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How can social learning create aggression?

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Aggression is learned behaviour

Instrumental learning or observational learning

118
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What is the script theory of aggression?

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Pick up the cognitive aspects of learning

Aggression as cognitive schema or representation

119
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What is the social interaction theory of aggression?

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Aggression as a social influence behaviour
Actor as decision maker
Aggression used to- get things, get retribution, enact identities

120
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What is the general aggression model?

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Integrates other learning & cognitive theories
Inputs:traits, attitudes, values, situation factors
Routes: affect, cognition, arousal

121
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How does the hydraulic model explain control of aggression?

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Aggression is inevitable and controlled through catharsis

122
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What is emotion?

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A subjective sensation experienced as a type of psycho-physiological arousal

123
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What dimensions do emotions vary along?

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Arousal, intensity, type, origin, value, self-regulation

124
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What do emotions result from?

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Perception of environmental stimuli
A cognitive appraisal of a situation
Neural & Hormonal responses to perceptions

125
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What are emotions functions?

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Behavioural- prepare us for action, shape our behaviour, allow us to respond flexibly to our environment
Social- facilitate communication non-verbally, regulate social interaction, facilitate adult-child relations and thus development

126
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What are the 3 important theories of emotions?

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James-Lange theory of emotion
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
Schachter-Singer theory of emotion

127
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What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?

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The theory that emotional feelings result from an individual becoming aware of a physiological response to an emotion-provoking stimulus

128
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What is the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion?

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The theory that an emotion-provoking stimulus is transmitted simultaneously to the brain, providing the feeling of emotion and to the sympathetic nervous system causing physiological arousal

129
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What is the Schater-Singer theory of emotion?

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A two-stage theory station that for an emotion to occur, there must be: physiological arousal, an explanation for the arousal (attribution)

130
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Describe the Circumplex model of emotion

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There are two dimensions that were found in a factor analysis of emotion terms: activation/arousal, pleasantness/valance

131
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What is valance?

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Valance refers to the intrinsic attractiveness or value assigned to; an object, an event, a situation, a goal, a stimuli an emotion etc.

132
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Describe high arousal

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Being alert and awake, high on energy levels and highly reactive to stimuli

133
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What was the third dimension found in analysis of japanese emotion words?

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Engagement with interpersonal relationships Socially engaged/disengaged

134
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What are basic emotions?

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Emotions that are found in all cultures, that are reflected in the same facial expressions across cultures, and that emerge in children according to their biological timetable

135
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How is self-awareness tested?

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The mirror test

136
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What are the parts of the multi-faceted self?

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Self-schemas
Social roles & the self-concept
The future self vs others

137
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How is the future self usually perceived?

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Positively, higher well-being, higher life-satisfaction

138
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What is self-efficacy?

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Competence & effectiveness

139
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What are the four main sources of self-efficacy?

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Mastery experiences, physiological feedback, Vicarious experience, verbal persuasion

140
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What are the benefits of high self-efficacy?

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Health maintenance and recovery
Students and studentship
Career success & good job performance
Improved grades
Responsibility
141
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What is attachment?

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The propensity of human beings to make strong affectional bonds to particular others

142
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What are the 4 phases of attachment in adult romantic relationships?

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Pre-attachment- e.g. flirting- seek partners, enthusiastic
Attachment in the making- e.g. falling in love- prefer partner, target social signals to the partner, verbal & physical intimacy
Clear cut attachment- loving
Goal-directed partnership- move from utter focus on partner to resumption of normal life

143
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What does research suggest about adult attachment styles?

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Continuity across different relationships, across time

Physical contact seeking- avoidant seek sexual contact, ambivalent seek emotionally intimate contact, secure seek both

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What are the three components of love according to Sternberg’s triangular theory of love?

A

Intimacy
Passion
Commitment

145
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What are the types of love?

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Nonlove
Liking
Infatuation
Empty love
Romantic love
Compassionate love
Fatuous love
146
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What is nonlove?

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None of the elements e.g. lots of people we interact with

147
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What is liking?

A

Only intimacy- closeness & warmth- ok if the person is absent e.g. friendship

148
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What is infatuation?

A

Only passion- high heartbeat & turned on

No personal connection or commitment e.g. casual sex

149
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What is empty love?

A

Only commitment- stay but not close or passionate, e.g. stagnant stage near end of relationship, arranged matches

150
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What is romantic love?

A

Intimacy and passion- close and warm but also physically & sexually drawn to each other

151
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What is compassionate love?

A

Intimacy & commitment, deep emotion but no sexual edge e.g. committed friendship, familial love

152
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What is fatuous love?

A

Passion & commitment, make commitment based on passion, missing stability of intimacy

153
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What are the signs of the commitment?

A

Stands by me, listens to me, spends time with me
or
Faithful to me, stands by me, there in good & bad times

154
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What is social identity?

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Social identity is the individual’s self-concept derived from perceived membership of social groups. Derives from knowledge of his or her membership in a social group, together with the value and emotional significance associated to that membership

155
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What is social identity theory?

A

Introduces the concept of social identity in the context of an analysis of intergroup relations

156
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What are the key elements of the social identity theory?

A

Social categorisation, social identity, social comparison and psychological group distinctiveness

157
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What is social categorisation?

A

The cognitive tendency to divide the social world into categories

158
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What is social comparison?

A

The process through which characteristics of the ingroup are compared to those of the outgroup

159
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What is psychological group distinctiveness?

A

The state desired by individuals in which the in-group has an identity that is perceived by the group members as being both distinct and positive vis-a-vis relevant comparison groups

160
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What is interpersonal interaction?

A

Is rare and involves people relating entirely as individuals, with no awareness of social categories

161
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What is intergroup interaction?

A

When people relate entirely as representatives of their groups, and where one’s idiosyncratic, individualising qualities are overwhelmed by the salience of one’s group memberships

162
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When does self-esteem occur?

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When the in-group is perceived as superior to relevant out-groups

163
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What does the amount of ingroup favouritism depend on?

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The extent to which a person identifies with the in-group & to what extent the in-group is perceived as an aspect of the self-concept
The situational relevance of comparison of the group within a given context
The context features of the group such as the in-groups’ status or how easy you can become part of another group

164
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What is self-categorisation theory?

A

Focus on intragroup relations as well, links social identity and the self
Group psychology underpinned by a cognitive act of self-categorisation

165
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What does self-categorisation theory?

A

Depersonalisation, self-stereotyping and social influence

166
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What is the 3 levels of identity are important to the self-concept?

A

Human Identity
Social Identity
Personal Identity

167
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When are music preferences usually established?

A

During adolescence, a period characterised by a need for a sense of competence, social acceptance, and autonomy

168
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What does identification with music-subcultures provide people with?

A

A sense of social belonging, identity and connectedness

169
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What parts of the physiological response were measured in response to music?

A

GSR, temperature, heart rate, BVP amp, respiration

170
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Which part of the nervous system is aroused in response to sedative music?

A

Parasympathetic NS

171
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What part of the nervous system is aroused in response to stimulative music?

A

Sympathetic NS

172
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What is culture?

A

The man-made part of the human environment

173
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What are the advantages of cultural psychological research?

A

Valid study of human psychology- moving away from western hegemony
Theory expansion- study of the context in which it occurs, increasing range of variables

174
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What is prosocial behaviour?

A

Acts that are valued positively by society
Behaviour that has positive social consequences and that contributes to the physical or psychological wellbeing of another person

175
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What behaviour may be classed as prosocial behaviour?

A

Altruism, bystander intervention, charity, cooperation, friendship. helping, rescue, sacrifice, sharing, sympathy and trust

176
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What is helping?

A

An intentional act that benefits another living being or group

177
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What is empathy?

A

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another

178
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What is altruism?

A

An intentional act that is motivated by the desire to benefit another rather than oneself

179
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When do people help?

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When helping is perceived as higher reward and low cost, when people perceive a higher similarity between themselves and the person who needs help, when there is communication between bystanders, when the helper has higher levels of empathy

180
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When is there more weight in helping?

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More weight to genetics in life or death situations
More weight to people who are needing help in mundane situations
Very young or old people, sick and very poor are more likely to be helped in mundane situations, but in life threatening situations 10 and 18 year olds are more likely to receive help

181
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Why do people help?

A

Costs associated to not helping- guilt, loss of social status, trust, friendship, bad mood
Biological explanation- social behaviour an outcome of genetic heritage
Learning to be helpful

182
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What are motives of prosocial behaviour?

A

Egoism
Altruism
Collectivism
Principals

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