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Pysch//Soc Class III Flashcards

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1
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What is impression management?

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Consciously making behavioural choices to influence perception of others

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What is the dramaturgical perspective?

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Front stage self and Back stage self

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What is the self concept?

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Self identity, self construction or self perspective. Beliefs about who you are as an individual
-your view of your own personality

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What is the self concept made from?

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Personal identities
Social identities (perceived membership in a group)
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What is a self schema ?

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Specific beliefs you have about the self

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What is self efficacy?

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Your feeling of being able to carry out a task or doing something

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What are the 2 kinds of self efficacy your can have?

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High-good at going something

Low-Bad at doing something

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What is the locus of control?

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Whether you think you have control over what happens to you

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What are the 2 kinds of locus of control?

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Internal: you believe you have control over events

External: You don’t have control over events

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What is evasive control?

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When behaviour if monitored by the reality of threat of something unpleasant happening

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What are the 2 kids of evasive control?

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Escape behaviour

Avoidance behaviour

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What is the difference between escape behaviour and avoidance behaviour?

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Escape is termination of an unpredicted and unpleasant stimulus that has already occurered

Avoidance of a predictable unpleasant stimulus before it is initiated

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What is social learning theory?

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Occurs through observation

-learning from our social environments

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What is social comparison theory?

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Our identity is shaped by the comparisons to the types of reference groups
-comparing ourselves to the social environment

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What is role taking?

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Adopting role of other person or adopting behaviours

-social perspective taking

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What is moral identity?

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Being a moral person is important to someones identity

-Lawrence Kohlberg

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17
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What is the social facilitation effect?

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Perform Bettwen when someone watch

  • if you’re already good at it you’ll do better
  • of you dont know how to do it then you’ll do worse
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What is deindividualization?

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When in a crowd, you adopt group mentality and lose individuality

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What is the bystander effect?

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Most people are less likely to help when others are present

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What is the diffusion of responsibility?

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In larger groups, its less likely someone will help

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What is social loafing ?

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Work less hard in a group

-everyone thinks they are working harder than they tink they are

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What is groupthink?

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When the desire to reach consensus decision cases groups to not critical evaluate alternative viewpoints
-leads to dysfunctional decision making

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What is group polarization?

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When group agreement causes the prexsiting view of group members to intensify the average view of members, m moving towards one pole

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What is conformity?

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Individuals to change attitude and behaviour based on the behaviour/thinking of others

25
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What is Obedience?

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When individuals yield to specific instructions and orders from authority figures

26
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What is attribution theory?

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The way we assign outcomes of a situation

  • dispositional: internal causes
  • Situational: external causes
27
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What is fundamental attribution error?

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We attribute other persons behaviour to their personality (judging)

28
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What is actor/observer bias?

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We attribute our own actions to the situation

-different perspective

29
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What is the self serving bias?

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Attribute our successes to ourselves and dialtures to others

30
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What is the optimism bias?

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We believe bad things happen to others and not you

31
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What its the just world belief?

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Bad things happen to others because of their actions

32
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What is the ultimate attribution error?

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Explains where prejudice comes from

33
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What is the self fulfilling prophecy?

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+ or - prophecy

When declared as true he actions can fulfill the prophecy regardless if it was true or not

34
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What is persuasion?

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influence by attitudes/beliefs of others

35
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What are the 3 ays in which you can be persuaded?

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Message characteristics
Source characteristics
Target characteristics

36
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What is the elaboration likelihood method?

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When people influences by superficial characteristics or content of message

37
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What are characteristics of central ways of receiving a message?

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Quality of message
Chose when interested in topic and not distracted
Longer lasting persuasive outcomes

38
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What are characteristics of peripheral ways of receiving a message?

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Superficial characteristics
Not motivated
Shorter lasting persuasive outcomes

39
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What is compliance?

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When agree to requests from others

40
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What are the 5 types of compliance ?

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Foot in door: ask small, then big
Door in face: ask big, then small
Low ball: Offering low initial cost, then increasing at the last moment
Ingratiation: sucking up
Norm of reciprocity: scratch my back and ill scratch yours

41
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What is Solomon Asch conformity experiment?

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Used confederates and placed in a group to deliberately say the wrong answer and some people followed knowing it was the wrong answer

42
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What is Stanley pilgrims obedience experiment?

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Testing what you do when someone of an authority figure tells you what to do
-further the distance between authority figure the less obedient you become

43
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What is the Harlow monkey experiment?

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Infants are attached more through comfort than through food

When reintroduced into society, they hard a hard time adjusting (decrease in social development)

44
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What is Mary Ainsworths experiment?

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Children were either when their mom left but came back:

Securely attached: cried when mom left and fine when came back
Insecurely attached: was not okay when mom left

45
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What are the 3 different categories infants can be in when they are insecurely attached?

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Ambivalent: Flux in opposing emotions
Avoidant attachment: Avoided toys and didn’t care if parents left but were actually v stressed out
Disorganized: can predict parental behaviour, in cases of neglect

46
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What is the person perception?

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Cant get to know people in a really deep way unless you spend a lot of time with them

47
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What do we do to people if we dont know them?

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Make quick judgements and establish expectations based on:

  • Physical cues
  • Salience
  • Social Categories
  • Halo effect
  • Physical attractiveness stereotype
48
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What is social norms?

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Explicit and implicit rules of society

-change with respect to time

49
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What are the 3 social norms?

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Folkway: Not normally significant to society, customers societally approved

Mores: Morals and ethical behaviour social norms

Taboo: Extreme mores

50
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What is deviance?

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betrayal of societal rules

51
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What ways can we be deviant?

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Legal Sanction
Stigmatization
Preference for one behaviour over another

52
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What is aggression?

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Any behaviour meant to hurt.intimidate others

53
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How does aggressions develop?

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Environmental factors
Biological factors
Cultural factors

54
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What is attraction based on?

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Proximity
Similarity
Physical attractiveness

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