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Unit 4: Social Psych and Personality Flashcards

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Attitudes

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A set of beliefs and feelings

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Cognitive Dissonance Theory

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People want to have constant attitudes and behaviours. Therefore, having two opinions at once is unpleasent.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Overestimate the role of personality factors and underestimate the role of environmental / social factors.

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Explicity attitudes

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Deliberate and conscious

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Implicit attitudes

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Automatic and below conscious awareness

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Situational attribution

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A person’s actions is explained by external factors

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Disposition attribution

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Someone’s behavior is attributed to themself as the individual

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Actor-observer bias

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Others = behavior is driven by person.
Self = behavior is driven by external factors

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Self-serving bias

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subjective qualities in defining sucess we think that we are sucessful

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Individualism

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Independence in activity and achievement. Indivudual ownership

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Collectivism

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Interdependence and group sucess.

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Conformity

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Change in behavior caused by other person and group

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Compliance

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Change in behavior requested by other or gorup

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Obedience

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Change that is ordered by another person or group

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Foot in the door phenomenon

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People who have first agreed to small request will be more willing to give in to larger request later.

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Door in the face phenomenon

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People refuse larger request and then give in to smaller requests.

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Norms of reciprocity

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People think that others should get something in return for being nice to them

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Social facilitation theory

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If you are good at something, you will perform better in a group. If you are bad at something, you will perform worse a in a group.

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Social comparison

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People know themselves by evaluating their own attitudes, abilities and beliefs in comparison with others.

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Internal locus of control

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Fate is controlled by you

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External locus of control

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Fate is not controled by you

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Social loafing

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People do less work when they are in a group.

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Relative deprivation theory

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Measure one’s own well-being against that of others.

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Groupthink

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Group members are more concerns with harmony then speaking their opintions.

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Group polarization
People grow closer together and more extreme after deciding on an issue.
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Belief perseverance
Tendency to cling to our beliefs.
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In group bias
Perferential treatment is for those that are part of a group
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Out-group bias
Dislike people who aren't part of the same group as us.
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Deindividuation
People get swept up in groups and lose their sense of self
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Milgram obedience study
People encouraged to shock others
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Zimbardo study
Prison Stanford
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Altruism
Motivation for helping with no ultimate goal
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Prosocial behavior
A pattern of altruistic actions
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Social Trap (Group trap)
Decisions beneficial to individuals do damage to entire group in the long run.
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Social Trap (Individual trap)
Do something for short-run benefits
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Stereotype
Overgeneralization about a group of people
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Prejudice
Undeserved negative attitude towards a group of people
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Discrimination
Action, practice or policy based on a prejudice.
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Just-world phenomenon
Tendency to believe that people get what they deserve
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
Belifs influence actions and then our beliefs are fulfilled.
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Outgroup homogeneity effect
Easily acquire prejudices about outgroups.
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Robber's cave experiment
See if two groups can work together.
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Mere exposure effect
Phenomenon where people tend to developo a preference for things they are exposed to repeatedly.
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Halo effect
attractive people are perceived to be better at different traits.
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Personality
Individual characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting
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Psychanalytic perspective
Chldhood expeirneces influence personality
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Trait perspective
Identifying and describing personality traits
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Social cognitive perspective
Observational learning, self-efficacy and situational influences
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Humanistic perspective
Psychological growth free will
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Repression
Unacceptable unpleasant impulses are pushed back into the unconsciousness
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Regression
People behave as if they were at an earlier stage of development
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Displacement
The expressions of a unwanted feeling or mere thought are redirecting from a more threatening powerful person to a weaker one. (boy shouts at a teacher for giving him bad grades).
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Rationalization
People distort reality in order to justify something that has happened.
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Denial
People refuse to accept things (refusing an anxiety producing piece of information)
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Projection
Poeple attribute unwanted impulses and feelings to someone else. (Man that is angry at wife acts lovingly to them)
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Sublimation
People divert unwanted impulses into socially approved thoughts, feelings or behaviours.
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Reaction formation
Unconscious impulses are expressed as their opposite in consciousness. People unconsciously resent others but act in an overly loving way.
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Unconditional Positive Regard
attitude of acceptance of others despite their feelings.
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Self esteem
Is good. Image of self.
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Reciprocal determinism
Behavior, cognition, environment are interlocking determinants of each other.
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Self-efficacy
Own percention of their capability to perform in a given setting.
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Factor analysis
Statitical procedure to identify similar components.
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Personality dimensions
Putting personality on a graph (like political compass)
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Big 5 factors
Conscientiousness, agreeableness, Neuroticism, openness, extraversion
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Humanistic personality
Foster human fulfillment. Positive psychology seeks positive subjective well-being, positive character, and positive social groups.
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Instincts
Innate desires + tendencies you are born with
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Drive Reduction theory
Behavior is motivated by biological means. Drives are ways to satisfy these means.
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Arousal theory
People have an optimum level of excitement. They are susceptible to boredom.
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Yerkes-dodson law
-x^2 relationship between arousal and performance
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Incentive theory
People also do things by desire. People are drawn to rewards and associate some stimulus with them.
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Self-determination theory
People have the power to make choices. People can form relationships with others important to them. People can have the skills to accomplish tasks.
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Ghrelin
Short term hunger hormone
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Leptin
Hormone that signals that you aren't hungry
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Bulimia
Binge eating disorder where you binge and then purge
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Anorexia nervosa
People starve themselves and refuse to eat because of obsession with weight
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Lewin's motivation theory
Approach = good, avoidance = bad
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