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What is the Sapir/Whorf linguistic hypothesis

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Semantics of a language can affect how we perceive the world

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Another name for Whorfian hypothesis

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linguistic determinism

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What is the low ball tactic in persuasive communication?

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Reveal disadvantage ONLY when agreement is reached

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Explain how sociometry scale works

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Measure interpersonal attitudes in grid-like fashion (sociograms)

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What is common sense psychology?

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Under stand others behaviors by piecing together information until they arrive at a reasonable explanation

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What is the ingratiation effect in persuasive communication

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Eliciting likeableness in persuasive communication

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What type of arguments result in behaviour change (4)?

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Two-sided
Moderately fear-inducing
Feeling vulnerable
Credibility of perceived message

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What is fatuous love?

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Passion and commitment

No intimacy

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What is groupthink?

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The desire to agree with other members can override rational judgement

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What are the bases of social power (5)?

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Reward - give positive/remove negative consequences
Coercive - punish those who do not conform
Legitimate - that someone has the right
Referent - through association with others who have power
Expert
Information - based on controlling information

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Osgood’s semantic differential scale

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measure verbally expressed attitudes.
Allows different attitudes about a topic to be measured on one scale.
7-point scale

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3 Types of Leadership

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Autocratic
Democratic
Laissez-Faire

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Where in the brain is theory of mind thought to be held (3)?

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Amygdala
Orbitofrontal cortex
Inferior parietal and medial frontal cortex

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5 types of attribution bias

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Fundamental attribution error/correspondence bias
Actor-observer effect
Self-serving bias
Just world hypothesis
False consensus effect
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What is autocratic leadership

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Decision-making occurs without consultation from others.

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5 Theories of prejudice

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Adorno's authoritatian personality theory
Scapegoating theory
Relative deprivation theory
Realistic conflict theory
Social identity theory
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What does Adorno’s authoritarian personality theory state?

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Difficult upbringing and disciplinarian childhood may lead to projection of difficulties and generalized prejudice.

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What is the correspondence bias?

Also known as Fundamental attribution error

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Overestimating dispositional factors and not situational factors while attributing cause of other’s behaviour.
Allows sense of predictability about the person.

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What is the scapegoating theory of prejudice?

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Related to frustration-aggression model of Dollard.

In extreme frustration when source is too powerful, we may displace aggression to a soft target/scapegoat.

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What is relative deprivation theory in prejudice?

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Relative deprivation: discrepancy between actual attainment and societal expectations.
Acute change in relative deprivation can cause unrest and scapegoating.

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What is the actor-observer effect?

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When one is involved as an agent in a specific behaviour and attributes external causality to the behaviour.
Others who observe may invoke internal causality.

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What is consummate love?

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Intimacy, passion and commitment all mixed

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What are the functions of attitude according to Katz (4)?

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Knowledge - simplify world
Value expressive - reflect self-concepts (e.g. vegetarianism)
Social adjustment - social acceptance
Ego-defensive - protects character

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What is the realistic conflict theory in prejudice

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Mere suggestion of competition is enough to trigger prejudice.

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What is social identity theory in prejudice?
Individual's positive self-image depends on personal and social identities. Thus, each person tries to improve his groups success which leads to prejudice against other groups.
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How can we reduce prejudice?
``` Blue eyes and brown eyes experiment (Elliott) Contact hypothesis (Allport) ```
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What is the blue eyes and brown eyes experiment?
Prejudice exhibited by a person could be lesser if they have experienced prejudice themselves
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What is the contact hypothesis?
When contact occurs between opposite group members of equal status and goals, this can reduce prejudice.
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6 types of aggression
``` Hostile Instrumental Positive Pathological Overt Covert ```
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What is hostile agggression
Aimed at hurting others
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What is pathological aggression?
Violent for the sake of being violent
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What are attitudes made of?
Belief | Value
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What is belief?
Based on knowledge of the world and link object to an attribute. Non-evaluative Objective
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What is value?
Relate to importance/desirability of object. | Subjective.
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What are the three components of attitude
Affective - how the person feels about the object Cognitive - thoughts, knowledge about the object Behavioral - actual/intended response to object
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What can we use to measure attitudes?
``` Thurstone scale Likert scale Sociometry Scalograms (Guttman) Osgood's semantic differential scale ```
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Explain how the Thurstone scale works
Hundreds of statements produced Presented to judges who score statements on 11-oint scale Set number of statements chosen based on consistent scaling Subject then chooses which statement he agrees with
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Explain how Likert scale works
Includes graded agree to disagree measures
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Explain how scalograms work
Include cumulative statements where accepting a statement means accepting all below the statement in a step-wise fashion
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What does actual behaviour depend upon (4)?
Perceived consequences Social desirability Habitual behaviors Situational factors
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What do we use to develop our self-concept?
Reaction of others (theory of looking glass self - Cooley) Comparison with others Social roles we play Identification with role models
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At what age do children show self-recognition?
20 months
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What famous experiment shows self-recognition in children?
Touching the dot (touching the dot on ones face rather than in the mirror)
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At what age does autobiographical memory develop?
3.5-4.5 years
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Who developed the naïve/common sense psychology?
Heider (1958)
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What are the three factors one must take into account when measuring the validity of inference in attribution?
Consensus - is it everyone or just the person we are looking at Distinctiveness - does the person behave this way to other events as well or only this event? Consistency - does the person behave this way to this event every time
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What is suggested if consensus is low?
Dispositional attribution is made - it is the person specifically
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What is suggested if consistency is low?
Situational attribution is made - there is something in the context rather specifically in the person.
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Who developed the systematic attributional theory?
Weiner
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What is self-serving bias?
Offers self-enhancement and defense for behaviours.
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What is the just world hypothesis?
The idea that everyone gets what they deserves.
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What type of attribution bias leads to blame-the-victim culture e.g. bad things happen to bad people?
Just world hypothesis
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Who does the first impression effect work best on?
Strangers
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What is the Halo effect?
Tendency to perceive others as wholly good or bad based on few observed traits.
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What is the Barnum/Forer effect?
The predisposition to believe that general, vague personality descriptions have specific relevance to individuals.
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What is the Hawthorne effect?
Short-term improvement caused by observing worker performance
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What is the Pygmalion/Rosenthal effect?
Form of self-fulfilling prophecy - where students with poor expectations from teachers internalize this label and perform poorly (and vice versa).
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At what age does theory of mind develop?
3.5-4.5 years
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What are first-order false belief tasks?
These tasks relate to the understanding that other people can have their own thoughts about a situation
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At what age do first-order false belief tasks occur?
4 years of age
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What are second-order false belief tasks?
Tasks which relate to the understanding that other people can have their own thoughts about a third person's state of mind.
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At what age do children develop second-order false belief tasks?
6 years of age.
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Types of love?
Companionate Passionate Consummate Fatuous
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What is companionate love?
Intimacy & commitment | Passion not high
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What is passionate love?
Intimate & passionate | Not much commitment
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What is semiotics?
Study of signs and symbols in relation to their form and context
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What is the type of aggression displayed when one needs to express negative feelings
Hostile
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What can theories of aggression be divided into
Hydraulic/build up models | Non-hydraulic models
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What theories of aggression come under the hydraulic model?
Psychoanalysis Evolutionary Territorial imperative
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Explain the psychoanalysis theory of aggression
Human aggression is due to the death instinct, Thanatos.
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What is the evolutionary theory of aggression?
Via natural selection, aggression ensures survival of genes - survival of fittest.
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What is the territorial imperative theory of aggression? (Lorenz)
Aggression is a fixed action pattern elicited by specific sign stimuli. Animal aggression = territorial imperative Human = constructive.
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What theories come under the non-hydraulic model of aggression?
``` Genetic theory Social learning theory Frustration-aggression hypothesis (Dollard) Aggressive cue theory (Berkowitz) Generalized arousal theory Festinger's deindividuation theory ```
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What is vicarious conditioning?
Type of observational learning where learning is influenced by seeing/hearing about the consequences of another's behaviour.
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What does the frustration-aggression hypothesis state?
That frustration always results in aggression. Thus, aggression will not occur if a person is not frustrated.
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What is the aggressive cue theory (Berkowitz)?
Frustration produces a readiness to respond aggressively; cues in the environment will then lead a frustration person to be aggressive.
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What is the generalized arousal theory?
Arousal from one source may energise some other response - transferred excitation.
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What is Festinger's deindividuation theory on aggression?
People in groups act uncharacteristically more aggressive due to sense of identity and belong and diffusion of responsibility.
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What is the Genovese effect?
Bystander apathy - in a crowd people are less likely to help another.
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What is pluralistic ignorance?
When members of a crowd look to each other for signs of distress but remain calm themselves, leading to misappraisal of situation being safe and therefore no action needed.
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What is it called when someone does not help another person because they assume someone else would have helped?
Dissolution of responsibility
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What is Ringelmann's effect?
Social loafing - The larger a group, the less the individual performance as one thinks others will do the job.
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What is felt stigma?
The shame felt by the patients secondary to the fear of discovery and subsequent discrimination.
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Which leadership type leads to higher productivity?
Laissez-faire

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