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1
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The scientific study of how we think about influence and relate to one another is?

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social Thinking

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Mental process associated with the ways in which people percieve and react to others is?

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Social cognition

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3
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I studied hard and i passed my test is an example of what?

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internal disposition

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4
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I was using a really lucky pen/ partner helped me/ i cheated i passed the test is an example of?

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external situation

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5
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Central Route of Persuasion is (direct or indirect)

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Direct

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Peripheral Route of Persuasion is (direct/indirect)

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indirect

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when attitudes change when interested people focus on the scientific evidene/ argumanets and respond with favorable thoughts this is?

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Central Route of Persuasion-

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when attitudes change when people make snap judgments on incidnetal cues, like attractiveness of a speaker

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Peripheral Route of Persuasion

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The tendency for people who agree to a small request to comply with a large one is?

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Foot-in-the-door phenomenon

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10
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Asking first for a big favor (or on that is likely denied) , then after being turned down, the askew agrees that the request was excessive and asks for something less.. Something that the person actually wanted in the first place is?

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Door- in- the-face phenomenon

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11
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whos associated with cognitive dissonance?

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Leon Festinger

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12
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when people become aware of the inconsitincies (dissonance) beween their attitudes and behavior, they become anxious and are motivated to make them consistent this is?

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cognitive dissonance

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13
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Zimbardos prison experiment showed what?

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the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed how people will readily conform to the social roles they are expected to play, especially if the roles are as strongly stereotyped as those of the prison guards.

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14
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The bonus points in class was an example of?

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Social Dilemmas

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-Situations in which selfish behavior that benefots individuals the short run may spell disaster fo an entore group in the long run is?

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Social Dilemmas

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16
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refers to improved performance on a task in the presence of others

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Social faciliation

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17
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Tendency for people in a group to exet less effort than when working individually

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Social Loafing

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18
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(mob mentality) loss of self awareness and self restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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Deindividuation

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enhances groups prevailling attitudes through discussion. If a group is like-minded, discussing strengthens its prevailing opinions and attitudes

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Group Polarization

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20
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way of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in decision-making overrides the possible alternatives

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Group Think

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21
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-An unjustfiable attitude toward a group and its members– often of different cultures, ethnic or gender groups

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Prejudice

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22
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what are the Componets of prejudice

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beliefs(sterotypes)
Emotions
Predisposition to act

23
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people with whom one shares a common identity “us”

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Ingrouop

24
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Those perceived as different from ones ingroup” them”

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outgroup

25
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the tendency to favor ones own group

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Ingroup Bias

26
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Jane elliots Blue eyes/ Brown eye simulation is a good example of what

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Social identitys

27
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when prejudice is an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame is what?

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Scapegoat theory

28
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good things happen to good people bad things happen to bad people is?

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Just world phenomenon

29
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stereotypes and prejudice toward a group will diminish as contact with the group increases is known as?

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Contact hypothesis

30
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a principle in which frustration creates anger, which can generate aggression is known as?

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Frustaration- aggression principle

31
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arousal from ones experience may carry over to an independent situation is known as?

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Excitaation transfer

32
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Unselfish regard for the welfare of others is known as?

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Altrusim

33
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the decision to help another person is based on how much it will cost the person to help compared how much it will help the person being helped is what?

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Social exchange Theory

34
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he expectation that we should return help nor harm to those who have helped us is known as what?

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Reciprocity Norm-

35
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Largely learned, a norm that tells us to help others when they need us even though they may not repay us in kind is known as?

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Social- Responsibility Norm

36
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The more obvious need for help more likely help will be given is known as

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Clarity for need of help

37
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Kitty Genovese case is an example of

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Social exchange theory

38
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Kitty Genovese case is an example of

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Social exchange theory

39
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if more people are present, the responsibiltyy for helping spreads amongst all present this is?

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-Diffusion of responsibility

40
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Tendency were as the number of people present increases, th likelihood that even ONE person will help decreases

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-Bystander effect

41
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Tendency of people to be more helpful and altruistic to others when they are in a good mood

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-Feel good, do good phenomenon

42
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people help for complet altrusc reason and are usually motivated by the desire to increase another persons well-being

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Empathy-altruism theory

43
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people help relatives because it increase the chance that helpers genes will survive in the future

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Evolutionary theory

44
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Repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases ons liking of that item/ more your around someone new the more you grow to like them

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Mere-exposure effect-

45
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an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another usually present at the beggining of a love relationship

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Passionate love-

46
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deep, affectionate intimate attachment, marked by mutual concern for the welfare of the other

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Compassionate love

47
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when one receives what she/ he gives to the relationship

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–Equity

48
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reveal intimate details about yourself

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self disclosure-

49
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who says you need intimacy, compassion, and commitment

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Sternburgs triangular Theory of love

50
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kenneth clarks doll test is an example of what?

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self-concept

51
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a self concerning concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative sterotype

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stero-type threat

52
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what experiment is a good example of stero type threat?

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Black eye/ Blue eye experiment

53
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a belief that leads to its own self fulfillment

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Self- fulfilling prophecy

54
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as we see our enemy as untrustworthy an evil intentioned, so they see us

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Mirror-image perceptions

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