Social Psych Exam 3

Question 1

Prejudice

Answer 1

Preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members

Question 2

Stereotypes

Answer 2

Stuck belief about the personal attributes of a group of people

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

Unjustified negative behavior toward a group

Question 4

Implicit Prejudice

Answer 4

What you know without knowing what you know (automatic)

Question 5

Explicit Prejudice

Answer 5

conscious

Question 6

Own race/other race effect

Answer 6

tendency to recognize faces of the race you are.. Other races all look alike

Question 7

Just world phenomenon

Answer 7

tendency of people to beleive that the world is just

Question 8

Ingroup

Answer 8

US

Question 9

Outgroup

Answer 9

THEM

Question 10

Ingroup bias

Answer 10

tendency to favor one’s group

Question 11

Shoot/Don’t shoot experiment

Answer 11

black/white people were told to shoot vs not shoot when people held up a flashlight or a bottle.

Question 12

Aggression

Answer 12

any behavior that is intended to inflict hard on another organism or object.

Question 13

Hostile vs. instrumental

Answer 13

fight for no reason vs. someone has something that you want so you are willing to fight for it.

Question 14

Direct vs. indirect

Answer 14

obvious vs. not obvious

Question 15

Relational aggression

Answer 15

Mean Girls is an example of this

Question 16

Symbolic

Answer 16

I dont like your team so Im burning that jersey

Question 17

Sanctioned

Answer 17

person killing someone in war is accepted

Question 18

Frustration Aggression hypothesis

Answer 18

aggression is a repsonse to frsutration.

Question 19

Displacement

Answer 19

Displacing anger to a safer target

Question 20

Catharsis

Answer 20

the emotional release.

Question 21

Dutton and Aron study

Answer 21

Physical arousal accentuated a romantic response.

Question 22

two factor theory of emotion

Answer 22

Emotional arousal caused by an exciting experience such as a roller coaster can be confused for sexual attraction

Question 23

Altruism

Answer 23

A motive to increase another’s welfare without conscious regard for one’s self interests.

Question 24

Evolutionary explanations for altruism

Answer 24

groups that have altruistic members may be more likely to survive than groups with selfish members

Question 25

Social norms supporting altruism

Answer 25

helping someone will make you more likely for someone to help you because the helpee will feel like they owe it to the helper

Question 26

Institutional supports of prejudice

Answer 26

Racial prejudices with resumes by not hiring people with black sounding or certain cultural names.

Question 27

Revised frustration aggression theory

Answer 27

Having a weapon in the home only elevates tension

Question 28

Halo effect

Answer 28

the tendency for an impression created in one area to influence an opinion in another area. ex: Someone is atrractive they are more likeable

Question 29

Mere exposure effect

Answer 29

Ex. rooming with someone that you weren’t really friends with and becoming best friends due to being in close proximity with them.

Question 30

Gender differences in helping

Answer 30

Men are more likely to help women then other men