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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

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I help you, you help me

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What is the reciprocity norm

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To help those who help us

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What is the bystandard effect

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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

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Diffusion of responsibility and informational influence

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What is diffusion of responsibility

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When theres other people around us, we assume they will help

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What is Informational social influence

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When were confused and looking for answers we tend to look at how other people react.

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What is pluralistic

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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

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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

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When someone makes a request and we go along with it

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What is the door in the face

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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

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motivated to understand other people and explain why their attribution.

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What are attributions

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What we offer as what behaviours took place

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What are the types of possibilites

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Dispositional,situational and interaction

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What is dispositional

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The behaviour someone has bc of their characteristic,efforts they put in or their emotions

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What is situational

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External factors for behaviours

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What is interaction

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We take a look between the situation and the person

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What is the fundamental attribution error

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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

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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

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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

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How we explain our successes and failures

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what is the false consensus effect

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When we believe that others share our opinions and values more than they actually do

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What is self fulfilling prophecies

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when our own beliefs and expectation could become a reality

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What are the 3 steps in self fulfilling prophecies

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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

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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

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The sequences of steps that we must have in our life ( school,marriage,kids,degrees)

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What are individualistic cultures

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They value independence , self reliance and self determination rather than being in a group

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What are collectivistic cultures

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Being in a group and having harmony,cooperation and interdependence is more important that being and individual

52
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What is conformity

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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

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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.

54
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When is conformity higher

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When we are animous,out loud, ambiguous, doubts our own knowledge, admire , low self esteem, locus of control, collectivistic cultures ,women and teens

55
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Why do we conform

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We have a normative social influence and informational social influence

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What is a normative social influence

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When we want to be accepted and not rejected by a group

57
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What is informational social influence

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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

58
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Who is the pioneer in group think

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Janis

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What is groupthink

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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

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They leader must encourage critical thinking and can assign a member as the devils advocate

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What is obedience

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When we perform our behaviour because we have been given an order from someone higher up

62
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How is responsible for research in obedience

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Milgram

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What is the bottom line with the Milgram experience

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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

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Zimbardo

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What is the bottom line of social rules experiement

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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

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Pre disposed to evaluate something or someone in a specific way ( positive , negative, neutral or ambivalent)

67
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What are the big three in attitudes

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Cognitive,Emotional/affective and behavioural

68
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Does attitude guide actions

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They can be strong predictors under certain circumstances

69
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When do our attitudes change our actions

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When something is specific or a direct experiment

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What is a foot in the door

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Make a small request and once they say yes, hit them with a bigger request. more likely to say yes

71
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Who si responsible for the cognitive dissonance theory

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festinger

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