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Social Psychology Flashcards

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Social psychology is…

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Scientific study of how peoples thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influences by the actual, imagines or implied presence of others

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Deals with factors that lead us to…

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Behave in a given way in the presence of others and look at the conditions

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Social factors and presence of others influence…

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Conformity, obedience, performance and decision making

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Impression formation obvious attributes

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Gender, ethnicity, age and physical attractiveness

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The primary effect

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Tendency for information that we learn first to be weighed more heavily than is infirmation that we learn later

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Primary effect first half

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Intelligent, industrious, impulsive, critical, stubborn, envious

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Primary effect second half

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Envious, stubborn, critical, impulsive, industrious and intelligent

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Expectations become..

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A self-fulfilling prophecy and influence the way other people act

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Expectations may be based upon

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Gender, age, racial or ethnic group, social class, role or occupation, personality traits, past behaviour, relationships with us and so on

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Expectations affect..

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How we perceive the behaviour of others - what we pay attention to and what we ignore

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Attribution is our explanation of

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Behaviour

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Behaviour can be influenced by both

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The person and the situation

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The process of trying to determine that causes of people’s behaviour is known as

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Causal attribution

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Because we cannot see personality, we must…

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Work to infer it

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Dispositional attribution

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Personal attribution when we decide that the behaviour was caused primarily by the person

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Situational attribution

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Situation or external attribution

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What is the fundamental attribution error

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A bias

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A bias

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Frequently male disposition (personal) versus situational attributions about others

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Actor-observer bias or difference

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Make more personal disposition attributes for the behaviour of others

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Biased by affect

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We often tend to distort them to make us feel better

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Self-serving attributes

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Attributions that help us meet our desire to see ourselves positively

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Attraction-similarity hypothesis

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Develop romantic relationships with those whose levels of physical attractiveness and other traits are similar to their own

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Attraction opposites

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Opposites do not attract

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Proximity

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Propinquity

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Reciprocity

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Potent determinant of attraction

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Physical attractiveness

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Major determinant of interpersonal and sexual attraction

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Physical attractiveness factors

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Facial symmetry, age, leg to hip ratio etc

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Symmetrical attractiveness

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Dominance sexiness and health and are perceived to be more desirable as potential mates

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Non-physical traits of attractiveness

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Familiarity, liking, respect and shared values and goals

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Three components of love

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Intimacy
Passion
Commitment

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Sternbergs triangular theory of love

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Passionate love
Romantic love
Companionate love

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Types of love relationships

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Infatuation
Liking
Romantic love
Consummate love
Empty love
Fatuous love (lacking intimacy)
Companionate love

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Conformity

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Changing or adopting a behaviour or an attitude in order to be consistent with the norms of a group or the expectations of other people

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Norms

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The standards of behaviour and the attitudes that are expected of me members off the group

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Majority influence

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When the beliefs held by the larger number of individuals in the curent social group prevail

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Obedience

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Compliance with commands given by an authority figure

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Compliance

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A response - specifically, a submission - made in reaction to a request

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Milligram study

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Powerful ability of those in authority to control others

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People tend to over orders from other people of they recognize their authority as

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Morally right
Or
Legally based

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Group influence

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Tasks can be enhanced or impaired by the mere presence of others

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Effects of a group

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When important tasks need to be performed quickly or effectively we frequently create groups to accomplish them

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Social facilitation

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An improvement in performance produced by the mere presence of others

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Two types of social facilitation

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Co-action effects
Audience effect

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Social loafing

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Effects of group on decision making

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Profound and predictable effects n decision making

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Group polarization

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One common decision-making task of groups is to come to a consensus regarding a jugement

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Social roles use

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Because they tell us beforehand how people are ikely to act towards us in many situations

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What can roles shape

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Human behaviour to an alarming degree

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Prejudice

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Attitudes (usually negative) toward others based on their gender, religion, race or membership in a particular group

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Discrimination consists of

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Behaviour

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Realistic conflict theory

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Competition among various social grips for scarce economic resources

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Us versus them

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Prejudice can also spring from the distinct social categories into which we divide our world

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Us versus them leads to

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Excessive competition, hostility, prejudice, discrimination and even war

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Social learning theory

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Acquiring prejudice through modelling and reinforcement

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Social cognitive

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The processes we use t simplify, categorize and order our world are the very same processes we use to distort it

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Pro social behaviour

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Social situation itself, the most important influence on whether and when we help

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Bystander effect

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The greater the number if bystander, the less likely they are to help

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Bystander effect variables

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Ambiguity
Cohesiveness
Diffusion of responsibility

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