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5 factors of Altruism

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  1. Clarity of need
  2. Personal Safety
  3. Personal Skill
  4. Similarity to Victim
  5. Established Norms
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Clarity of Need

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Do they really need help? Are you sure?

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Personal Safety

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If you help them, will you be at risk?

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Personal Skill

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do you have any skills to help them?

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Similarity to Victim

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Can you empathize with them?

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Established Norms

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Are other respectable people doing?

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Diffusion of Responsibility

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Responsibility to help is diffused among the possible helpers.

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What lessens diffusion?

2 things

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  1. seeing the victim

2. there is no escape from the situation,

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Confederate

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Someone who works for the researcher, but appears to the test subjects to just be a regular person.

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Exchange Theory

  1. what psychology?
  2. what is it?
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  1. Behaviorism.

2. People help or don’t help because of rewards and punishments.

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Rewards of Helping

3 things

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  1. You feel good.
  2. Money/rewards.
  3. The person gets help they need.
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Rewards of Not Helping

3 things

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  1. No risk involved.
  2. It saves time.
  3. You avoid looking incompetent.
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Punishments of Helping

3 things

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  1. Risk is involved.
  2. It takes time.
  3. You could look incompetent.
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Punishments of Not Helping

2 things

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  1. You feel bad.

2. Someone could be harmed.

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6 factors of liking

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  1. Appearance
  2. Attribution
  3. Proximity
  4. Similarity
  5. Familiarity
  6. Reciprocal Liking
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Appearance

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How do they look?

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Attribution

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Attribute or award qualities given to someone based on appearance or behavior

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The Halo Effect

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someone is attractive, so they must be smart, kind, hardworking, and perfect

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Proximity

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Nearness. someone is easy to access

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Similarity

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Similar Interests

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Familiarity

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We are friends with people we interact with frequently.

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Reciprocal Liking

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We like people who like us

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3 Parts of Attitude

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  1. Cognitive
  2. Emotional
  3. Behavioral
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Cognitive (part of attitude)

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Knowledge.

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Emotional (part of attitude)

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Feelings.

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Behavioral (part of attitude)

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actions.

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Cognitive Dissonance

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When attitudes and behaviors are in conflict

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How to fix cognitive dissonance

3 things

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  1. Change attitude
  2. Change behavior
  3. Change both.
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Sources of Attitudes

4 things

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  1. Cognitive
  2. emotional
  3. Social
  4. Behavioral
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Why know the source of an attitude

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so you can change it.

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Cognitive (source of attitude)

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information

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changing an Emotional (source of attitude)

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difficult to change-create another emotional event.

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Social (source of attitude)

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family, friends, community, religion

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Behavioral (source of attitude)

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Do you like it because you do it? or do you do it because yo like it?

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Fixed response (opinion poll)

  1. what?
  2. Problems (2)
  3. Why?
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  1. select between given choices
  2. a) not accurate b) could lie
  3. Easy to tabulate
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Open Ended response (opinion poll)

2 things

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  1. More accurate

2. difficult to tabulate

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Likert Scale (measurement scale)
(3 things)
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  1. Anonymous-reliable
  2. easy to tabulate
  3. less precise
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Unobtrusive Measures

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people don’t know they are being studied.

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Social Validation

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the more people who share an attitude the more likely we are to change ours to match.

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Likable

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we listen to people we like.

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Scarcity

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we are persuaded if we believe resources are scarce

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Reciprocity

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we are unhappy if we feel indebted to someone

change attitude to to feel even again.

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Message

4 rules

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  1. Can’t be too emotional
  2. must be presented logically
  3. New attitude must meet your needs
  4. Must accept the old attitude had merit.
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Consistency with public comments

2 rules

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  1. Avoid hypocrisy

2. avoid cognitive dissonance

45
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Brainwashing

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  1. Personal identity is removed
  2. must be dependent on authority figure for survival
  3. Rewards and punishments
  4. Social pressure to change
  5. not permanent
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3 Factors of Conformity

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  1. High visibility
  2. Group Attractiveness
  3. Directedness
47
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High Visibility

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the more visible you are, the more likely you are to conform

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Group Attractiveness
3 groups
which is most likely to conform?

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Leader
middle
lower
the middle

49
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Directedness

2 things

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innner directed-internal locus of control

Outer directed-outside locus of control

50
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We will follow ________ even if it causes _______ ________

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Authority

cognitive dissoncance

51
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Who developed the attribution theory?

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Heider

52
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Explain the fundamental attribution error.

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We are more inclined to attribute behavior to personal flaw as opposed to outside circumstances.

53
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Define prejudice

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Not liking a person for an actual reason.

54
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Define discrimination

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Not liking someone based on a category or group to which they belong, instead of a resin which has actual merit.

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