Psychology Chapter 13 Flashcards

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Social psychology

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The study of the causes and consequences of sociality

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Aggression

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Behaviour whose purpose is to harm another

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3
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis

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A principle stating that animals aggress when their goals are frustrated

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4
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Cooperation

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Behaviour by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit

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Group

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A collection of people who have something in common that distinguishes them from others

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Prejudice

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A positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their group membership

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Common knowledge effect

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The tendency for group discussions to focus on information that all members share

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Group polarization

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The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than any member would have made alone

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Groupthink

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The tendency for groups to reach consensus in order to facilitate interpersonal harmony

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10
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Deindividuation

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A phenomenon that occurs when immersion in a group causes people to become less aware of their individual values

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Diffusion of responsibility

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The tendency for individuals to feel diminished responsibility for their actions when they are surrounded by others who are acting the same way

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12
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Social loafing

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The tendency for people to expend less effort when in a group than when alone

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13
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Bystander intervention

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The act of helping strangers in an emergency situation

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14
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Altruism

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Behaviour that benefits another without benefiting oneself

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15
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Kin selection

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The process by which evolution selects for individuals who cooperate with their relatives

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Reciprocal altruism

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Behaviour that benefits another with the expectation that those benefits will be returned in the future

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17
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Mere exposure effect

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The tendency for liking to increase with the frequency of exposure

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18
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Passionate love

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An experience involving feelings of euphoria, intimacy, and intense sexual attraction

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19
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Companionate love

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An experience involving affection, trust, and concern for a partner’s well being

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Comparison level

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The cost-benefit ratio that people believe they deserve or could attain in another relationship

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Equity

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A state of affairs in which the cost - benefit ratios of two partners are roughly equal

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Social influence

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The ability to change or direct another person’s behaviour

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Norms

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Customary standards for behaviour that are widely shared by members of a culture

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Norm of reciprocity

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The unwritten rule that people should benefit those who have benefitted them

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Normative influence

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A phenomenon that occurs when another person’s behaviour provides information about what is appropriate

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Door-in-the-face technique

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An influence strategy that involves getting someone to deny an initial request

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Conformity

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The tendency to do what others do simply because others are doing it

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Obedience

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The tendency to do what powerful people tell us to do

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Attitude

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An enduring positive or negative evaluation of an object or event

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Belief

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An enduring piece of knowledge about an object or event

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Informational influence

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A phenomenon that occurs when another person’s behaviour provides information about what is true

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Persuasion

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A phenomenon that occurs when a person’s attitudes or beliefs are influenced by a communication from another person

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Systematic persuasion

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The process by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to reason

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Heuristic persuasion

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The process by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to habit or emotion

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Foot-in-the-door technique

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A technique that involves making a small request and following it with a larger request

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Cognitive dissonance

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An unpleasant state that arises when a person recognizes the inconsistency of his or her actions, attitudes, or beliefs

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Social cognition

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The process by which people come to understand others

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Stereotyping

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The process by which people draw inferences about others based on their knowledge of the categories to which others belong

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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The tendency for people to behave as they are expected to behave

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Stereotype threat

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The fear of confirming the negative beliefs that others may hold

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Perceptual confirmation

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The tendency for people to see what they expect to see

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Subtyping

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The tendency for people who receive disconfirming evidence to modify their stereotypes rather than abandon them

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Attribution

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An inference about the cause of a person’s behaviour

44
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Correspondence bias

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The tendency to make a dispositional attribution even when we should instead make a situational attribution

45
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Actor-observer effect

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The tendency to make situational attributions for our own behaviours while making dispositional attributions for the identical behaviour of others