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What is geographical proximity?

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The people around us whether were close or not

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What is the mere exposure effect

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When were exposed to stimulus either mutual or pleasant were likely to like it more.

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Physical attractiveness

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By looking pretty, people will associate them with positive values in society

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Reciprocity of liking

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We like people who like us

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Similarity (romantic)

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When were more similar to a partner, the more satisfied we are

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What happens in a bad socioeconomic environment

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Men find curvy women more attractive

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What happens when in a good socioeconomic environment

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Men find skinnier women more attractive

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What is agression

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An action is done to hurt, harm or destroy something or someone that doesn’t want to be broken.

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What are the different types of agression

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Verbal and Physical

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What are the types of functions

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Instrumental and hostile

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What is instrumental

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We are aggressive in order to get something from them

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What is hostile

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When the goal is to hurt them

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What are similarities with identical twins and aggression

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genetically, identical twins are similar in aggression to fraternal twins

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What is the impact on brain activity with the MAOA gene

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When little activity is found, they are linked to a high probability of aggression.
When it is active, there’s a lower possibility of aggression .

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What are the links between aggression and the brain

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Low levels of seretonin,smaller frontal lobes and the amygdala is linked with agression

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What is the correlation of testosterone and aggression

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Higher level of agression

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What is the correlation of stress hormones and aggression

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Associated with agression ( think abt how ur grumpy after school)

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What is the correlation between aversive events

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Intense physical pain or hot climate

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How can people become aggressive

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Observation or modeling

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How can the media influence aggressive tendencies

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video games,tv shows, cartoons

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What is desensitization

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When too much exposure, we tolerate more violence, less empathy for people who live in violent environment and giving more lenient sentences to criminals.

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How are we more likely to have aggressive behaviours?

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Antisocial behaviours, violence and aggression are more likely to happen with genetic deficiency and maltreatment.

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What are prosocial behaviours

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To help someone regardless of what were doing.

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What is altruism

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When we help someone because they need help and were not looking to gain anything from it

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What is reciprocal altruism
I help you, you help me
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What is the reciprocity norm
To help those who help us
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What is the bystandard effect
We see people who need help, but we don't help them because we think someone else will do it.
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What are the reasons for the by standard effect
Diffusion of responsibility and informational influence
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What is diffusion of responsibility
When theres other people around us, we assume they will help
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What is Informational social influence
When were confused and looking for answers we tend to look at how other people react.
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What is pluralistic
When we dont know what to do, we look at other people and see that they're doing nothing, so we copy them
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How can we get help from others and not get stuck into the bystandard effect
We must know when something is going on, we must decide its an emergency, we have to decide to take personal responsibility.
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What is compliance
When someone makes a request and we go along with it
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What is the door in the face
We make a large request , knowing they will say no. Once they say no, we make a smaller request ( which is the one we want) which increases their compliance
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What is the definition of social psychology
motivated to understand other people and explain why their attribution.
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What are attributions
What we offer as what behaviours took place
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What are the types of possibilites
Dispositional,situational and interaction
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What is dispositional
The behaviour someone has bc of their characteristic,efforts they put in or their emotions
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What is situational
External factors for behaviours
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What is interaction
We take a look between the situation and the person
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What is the fundamental attribution error
Our tendency to explain the behaviours of other people, particularly the ones we don't know and forget external factors.
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What are some exceptions to the fundamental attribution factors
when compassion kick in, explaining the behaviours of people we know well, collective cultures and explaining our own behaviours
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What is the actor-observer bias
The same behaviour will be explained differently depending if were the actor or the observer of the behaviour.
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What is the self-serving bias
How we explain our successes and failures
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what is the false consensus effect
When we believe that others share our opinions and values more than they actually do
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What is self fulfilling prophecies
when our own beliefs and expectation could become a reality
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What are the 3 steps in self fulfilling prophecies
we must believe something,we must be inclined with the belief and because our behaviour, we make our dream a reality
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what is social norm
Rules that let us know what is appropriate and inappropriate because of other people's behaviours ( vary between cultures)
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What is a social script
The sequences of steps that we must have in our life ( school,marriage,kids,degrees)
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What are individualistic cultures
They value independence , self reliance and self determination rather than being in a group
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What are collectivistic cultures
Being in a group and having harmony,cooperation and interdependence is more important that being and individual
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What is conformity
We change our behaviours,attitude and beliefs so that they match the groups or society
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What was solomon Asch experient about
He took a few people to answer some questions. All of them were told to give the wrong answer and see if the subject complied. if they didn't comply, they would look at him weirdly. Found out that more people comply when other people have an opinion on something whether its right or wrong.
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When is conformity higher
When we are animous,out loud, ambiguous, doubts our own knowledge, admire , low self esteem, locus of control, collectivistic cultures ,women and teens
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Why do we conform
We have a normative social influence and informational social influence
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What is a normative social influence
When we want to be accepted and not rejected by a group
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What is informational social influence
we have the need to be right and like good judgment, but when we don't know the situation we go see what the group is doing
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Who is the pioneer in group think
Janis
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What is groupthink
Maladaptive and dysfunctional way of thinking, when the main focus i to please the leader and not being cooperative with ideas, which leads to bad decisions
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How to counter act group think
They leader must encourage critical thinking and can assign a member as the devils advocate
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What is obedience
When we perform our behaviour because we have been given an order from someone higher up
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How is responsible for research in obedience
Milgram
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What is the bottom line with the Milgram experience
When put in a situation with an authority figure and given the order to destroy we are more likely to do it.
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Who is responsible for social roles experiments
Zimbardo
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What is the bottom line of social rules experiement
When put in a situation, we are more likely to behave in evil ways and people get drunk on power
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What are attitudes
Pre disposed to evaluate something or someone in a specific way ( positive , negative, neutral or ambivalent)
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What are the big three in attitudes
Cognitive,Emotional/affective and behavioural
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Does attitude guide actions
They can be strong predictors under certain circumstances
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When do our attitudes change our actions
When something is specific or a direct experiment
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What is a foot in the door
Make a small request and once they say yes, hit them with a bigger request. more likely to say yes
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Who si responsible for the cognitive dissonance theory
festinger

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