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Psychology and Sociology: Chapter 10 Flashcards

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Interpersonal attraction

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individuals liking each other

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Self-disclosure

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sharing one’s fears, thoughts, and goals with another person and being met with nonjudgmental empathy

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Reciprocal liking

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phenomenon whereby people like others better when they believe the other person likes them

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Mere exposure effect or familiarity effect

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the tendency for people to prefer stimuli that they have been exposed to more frequently

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Aggression

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a behavior that intends to cause harm or increase social dominance

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Parts of the brain contributing to violent behavior

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-Amygdala: part of the brain responsible for associating stimuli and their corresponding rewards or punishments
-Aggression is under hormonal control; higher levels of testosterone have been linked to more aggressive behavior in both males and females

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Cognitive neoassociation model

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we are more likely to respond to others aggressively whenever we are feeling negative emotions, such as being tired, sick, frustrated, or in pain

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Attachment

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An emotional bond between a caregiver and a child that begins to develop during infancy

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Secure attachment

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Is seen when a child has a consistent caregiver and is able to go out and explore, knowing that her or she has a secure base to return to

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Insecure attachment

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children with avoidant, ambivalent, or disorganized attachment which lead to deficits in social skills

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Avoidant attachment

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-Results when the caregiver has little or no response to a distress child
-Given the choice, these children will show no preference between a stranger and a caregiver

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Ambivalent attachment

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-Occurs when a caregiver has an inconsistent response to a child’s distress, sometimes responding appropriately, sometimes neglectfully
-Child is unable to form a secure base because he or she cannot consistently rely on the caregiver’s response
-Anxious-ambivalent attachment: child is always anxious about the reliability of the caregiver

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Disorganized attachment

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-Children show no clear pattern of behavior in response to the caregiver’s absence or presence, but instead can show a mix of different behaviors
-Often associated with erratic behavior and social withdrawal by the caregiver

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Social support

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-The perception or reality that one is cared for by a social network
-Can be divided into many different categories: emotional, esteem, material, informational, and a network support

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Sensation of hunger

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-controlled by the hypothalamus
-The lateral hypothalamus promotes hunger, while the ventromedial hypothalamus responds to cues that we are full and promotes satiety

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Altruism

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A form of helping behavior in which the individual’s intent is to benefit another at some cost to the self

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Empathy

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the ability to vicariously experience the emotions of another, and it is thought by some social psychologists to be a strong influence on helping behavior

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Empathy-Altruism hypothesis

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one individual helps another person when he or she feels empathy for another person, regardless of the cost

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Game theory

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Attempts to explain decision-making behavior

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4 Possible outcomes for the Hawk-Dove Game

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-Altruism: the donor provides a benefit to the recipient at a cost to him- or herself
-Cooperation: both the donor and recipient benefit by cooperating
-Spite: both the donor and recipient are negatively impacted
-Selfishness: the donor benefits while the recipient is negatively impacted

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Inclusive fitness

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-A measure of an organism’s success in the population
-Based on the number of offspring, success in supporting offspring, and the ability of the offspring to then support others

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Social perception

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provides the tools to make judgements and impressions regarding other people

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Components of social perception

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-Perceiver: influenced by experience, motives, and emotional state
-Target: refers to the person about which the perception is made
-Situation

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Impression bias

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-Focuses on our selection of cues to form interpretations of others that are consistent over time

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Primary effect (impression bias)

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the idea that first impressions are often more important than subsequent impressions

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Recency effect (impression bias)

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it is actually the most recent information we have about an individual that is the most important in forming our impressions

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Reliance on central traits (impression bias)

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individuals tend to organize the perception of others based on traits and personal characteristics of the target that are most relevant to the perceiver

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Implicit personality theory (impression bias)

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there are sets of assumptions people make about how different types of people, their traits, and their behavior are related

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Stereotyping

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making assumptions about people based on the category in which they are placed

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Halo effect

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-a cognitive bias in which judgements about a specific aspect of an individual can be affected by one’s overall impression of the individual
-It is the tendency to allow a general impression about a person to influence other, more specific evaluations about a person

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Just-world hypothesis

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In a so-called just world, good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people; noble actions are rewarded and evil actions are punished

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Self-serving bias

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Refers to the fact that individuals credit their own successes to internal factors and blame their failures on external factors

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Self-enhancement

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focuses on the need to maintain self-worth, which can be accomplished in part by the self-serving bias

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Self-verification

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suggest people will seek the companionship of others who see them as they see themselves, thereby validating a person’s self-serving bias

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Attribution theory

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Describes how individuals infer the causes of other people’s behavior

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Dispositional (internal) attributions

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those that relate to the person whose behavior is being considered, including his or her beliefs, attitudes, and personality characteristics

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Situational (external) attributions

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those that related to features of the surroundings, such as threats, money, social norms, and peer pressure

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Consistency cues

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refer to the behavior with the motives of the person

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Consensus cues

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relate to the extent to which a person’s behavior differs from others

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Distinctiveness cues

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refer to the extent to which a person engages in similar behavior across a series of scenarios

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Correspondent inference theory

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-focuses on the intentionality of other’s behavior
-When an individual unexpectedly performs a behavior that helps or hurts us, we tend to explain the behavior by dispositional attribution

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Fundamental attribution error

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Posits that we are generally biased toward making dispositional attributions rather than situational attributions when judging the actions of others

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Attribute substitution

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Occurs when individuals make judgements that are complex, but instead they substitute a simpler solution or apply a heuristic

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Cultural attribution

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The type of culture an individual belongs to plays a major role in the types of attributions the individuals makes

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Stereotypes

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-refer to the expectations, impressions, and opinions about the characteristics of members of a group
-Stereotypes occur when attitudes and impressions are based on limited and superficial information about a person or a group in individuals

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Stereotype content model

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-attempts to classify stereotypes with respect to a hypothetical in-group using two dimensions; warmth and competence
-Warm groups are those that are not in direct competition with the in-group for resources
-Competent groups are those that have high status within society

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Paternalistic stereotypes

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high warmth, low competence; the group is looked down upon as inferior, dismissed, or ignored

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Contemptuous stereotypes

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low warmth, low competence; the group is viewed with resentment, annoyance, or anger

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Envious stereotypes

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low warmth, high competence; the group is viewed with jealousy, bitterness, or distrust

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Admiration stereotypes

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high warmth, high competence; the group is viewed with pride and other positive feelings

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Stereotype threat

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In some social situations, a person might be concerned or anxious about inadvertently confirming a negative stereotype about their social group

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Prejudice

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-An irrational positive or negative attitude toward a person, group, or thing, prior to an actual experience with that entity

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Ethnocentrism

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Refers to the practice of making judgements about other cultures based on the values and beliefs of one’s own culture, especially when it comes to language, customs, and religion

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Cultural relativism

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the recognition that social groups and cultures should be studies on their own terms

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Discrimination

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Occurs when prejudicial attitudes cause individuals of a particular group to be treated differently from others

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Individual discrimination

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refers to one person discriminating against a particular person or group

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Institutional discrimination

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refers to the discrimination against a particular person or group by an entire institution

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