Social Thinking

Question 1

Interpersonal attraction

Answer 1

what makes people like each other and is influenced by multiple factors

Question 2

factors influencing interpersonal attraction

Answer 2

• golden ratio, physical attractiveness
• self disclosure: sharing fears, thoughts and goals with another person and being met with empathy and no judgement
• reciprocity: we like people who we think like us
  proximity: being physically close to someone

Question 3

aggression

Answer 3

• increased amygdala activity and decreased pre frontal cortex activity

Question 4

secure attachment

Answer 4

consistent caregiver, so when caregiver leaves child is sad and happy when they return.

Question 5

avoidant attachment

Answer 5

caregiver has no response to distressed child, child has no preference to caregiver to stranger

Question 6

ambivalent attachment

Answer 6

caregiver has inconsistent response to distressed child. child is distressed when caregiver leaves but doesn’t care when they return

Question 7

disorganized attachment

Answer 7

caregiver is abusive to child, child doesn’t care when the caregiver leaves and may how repetitive behaviours

Question 8

Social Support

Answer 8

perceptions that one is cared for by a social network

Question 9

emotional support

Answer 9

includes listening to affirming and empathizing with someone’s feelings

Question 10

esteem support

Answer 10

affirms the qualities and skills of the person

Question 11

material support

Answer 11

giving more or physical support

Question 12

informational support

Answer 12

giving useful information to person

Question 13

network support

Answer 13

providing sense of belonging

Question 14

foraging

Answer 14

searching for food

Question 15

altruism

Answer 15

helping someone at the negative cost of oneself

Question 16

game theory

Answer 16

explains decision making between people as if they are participating in a game

Question 17

inclusive fitness

Answer 17

measure of organism’s success in population. based on number of offspring

Question 18

social perception/ cognition

Answer 18

way by which we generate perceptions of people in our social environment.

Question 19

implicit personality theory

Answer 19

people make assumptions about how different types of people, their traits and their behaviour are related

Question 20

primacy effect

Answer 20

fist impressions are most important

Question 21

recency effect

Answer 21

most recent info is more important when comes to forming impressions

Question 22

reliance on central traits

Answer 22

tendency to organize the perception of others based on traits and personal characteristics that matter to the perceiver

Question 23

halo effect

Answer 23

judgement of individual can be affected by overall impression of the person

Question 24

just world hypothesis

Answer 24

good things happen o good people and and bad things to bad people

Question 25

self serving bias

Answer 25

people view their own success based on internal factors (like I worked hard for my A+) while viewing failures as being based on external factors (like I failed because the test was too hard)

Question 26

Attribution theory

Answer 26

focuses on our tendency to try to find reasons of others behaviours.
- dispositional and situational factors

Question 27

correspondent inference theory

Answer 27

is used to describe attributions made by observing the intentional (especially unexpected) behaviours performed by another person

Question 28

fundamental attribution theory

Answer 28

bias toward making dispositional attributions rather than situational ones in regard to the actions of the others

Question 29

attribute substitution

Answer 29

occurs when individuals must make judgments that are complex but instead substitute a simpler solution or heuristic

Question 30

stereotypes

Answer 30

occurs when attitudes and impressions are made based on limited and superficial information about a person or a group of people

Question 31

self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 31

stereotype can lead to expectations of certain people, the creates conditions that lead to the confirmation of that expectation

Question 32

stereotype threat

Answer 32

is anxiety about confirming a negative stereotype about ones social group

Question 33

prejudice

Answer 33

defined as irrational positive or negative attitude toward a person or group before actual experience

Question 34

ethnocentrism

Answer 34

practice of making judgements about other cultures based on values and beliefs of one’s own culture

Question 35

cultural relativism

Answer 35

recognition that social groups and cultures should be studied on their own terms