Social Thinking

Question 1

What are the factors that influence attraction?

Answer 1

• Appearance
• Similarity
• Self-disclosure
• Reciprocity
• Proximity

Question 2

What happens in brain during aggression?

Answer 2

Amygdala gets activated and promotes a sympathetic reaction of releasing emotions like fear or anger causing aggression back

While prefrontal cortex is responsible for controlling that aggression by modulating impulsiveness and reducing emotional reactivity

Question 3

What’s attachment?

Answer 3

It’s described as a relation between a child and it’s caregiver

Question 4

What are the four types of attachment?

Answer 4

Secure: Beneficial one where a caregiver is consistent and reliable
Avoidant: Negligence from caregiver as child is being ignored
Ambivalent: Caregiver lacks consistency
Disorganized: Caregiver is absent or disorganized

Question 5

What are the types of social support a person can provide?

Answer 5

Emotional: Individual listens and empathizes with another person
Esteem: Individual encourages another person through qualities or positive actions
Material: A person may provide financial or attribution help
Information: A person provides information that can help in career or school
Network: when people one knows show up at graduation or a game

Question 6

Attribution

Answer 6

Refers to our explanation for the cause of person’s actions, behavior, and interactions

Question 7

What are the three phases of attribution?

Answer 7

1. Behavior is observed
2. Behavior is determined to be deliberate
3. Behavior is determined to be caused by internal or external factors

Question 8

What are the two main categories of attribution?

Answer 8

Internal/dispositional: When one focuses on person’s mood, attitude, judgement, or ability
External/Situational: When one focuses on outside pressure or something in surrounding

Question 9

What does fundamental attribution error refers to?

Answer 9

It refers to us humans tending to make dispositional attribution when analyzing another person’s behavior i.e saying a person is being lazy for not helping with a group project rather than saying they might be overwhelmed

Question 10

What happens during self-serving bias?

Answer 10

It explains that humans tend to explain their success as internal factors i.e it is because of their hard work while their failure as external factors i.e. the test was hard or teacher is bad