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WINTER Chapter 17: Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour Flashcards

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What is the desire to associate with other people?

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Need to affiliate

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What is social attraction to another person?

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Interpersonal attraction

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What is a mutual exchange of feelings, thoughts, or things between people?

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Reciprocity

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What is the process of revealing private thoughts, feelings, and one’s personal history to others?

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Self-disclosure

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What is any exchange between two people of attention, information, affection, favours, or the like?

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Social exchange

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What is a theory stating that rewards must exceed costs for relationships to endure?

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Social exchange theory

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What is a personal standard used to evaluate rewards and costs in a social exchange?

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Comparison level

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What is the term for feelings of connectedness and affection for another person?

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Intimacy

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What is having deep emotional and/or sexual feelings for another person?

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Passion

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What is the determination to stay in a long-term relationship with another person?

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Commitment

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What is love that is associated with high levels of interpersonal attraction, heightened arousal, mutual absorption, and sexual desire?

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Romantic love

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What is a form of love characterized by intimacy and commitment, but not passion?

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Companionate love

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What is love characterized by passion and commitment, but not intimacy?

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Fatuous love

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What is a form of love characterized by intimacy, passion, and commitment?

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Consummate love

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What is the study of the evolutionary origins of human behaviour patterns?

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Evolutionary psychology

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What is any behaviour that has a positive impact on other people?

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Prosocial behaviour

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What is a specific type of prosocial behaviour motivated primarily by improving the circumstance of others?

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Altruism

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What is a state in which people, when faced with someone who is suffering, experience a feeling state that parallels that of the other person in distress?

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Empathy

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What is the unwillingness of bystanders to offer help during emergencies or to become involved in others’ problems?

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Bystander effect (bystander apathy)

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What is spreading the responsibility to act among several people? It reduces the likelihood that help will be given to a person in need.

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Diffusion of responsibility

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What is any behaviour that has a negative impact on other people?

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Antisocial behaviour

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What is any action carried out with the intention of harming another person?

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Aggression

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What is the deliberate and repeated use of aggression (whether verbal or physical, direct or indirect) as a tactic for dealing with everyday situations?

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Bullying

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What is an innate impulse that directs or motivates behaviour?

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Instinct

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What is the idea that frustration tends to lead to aggression?

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Frustration-aggression hypothesis

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What is a theory that combines learning principles with cognitive processes, socialization, and modeling, to explain behaviour?

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Social learning theory

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What is a positive or negative attitude toward an entire group of people?

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Prejudice

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What are oversimplified images of the traits of individuals who belong to a particular social group?

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Social stereotypes

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What is the term for unfair actions based on stereotyping and prejudice?

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Discrimination (in social behaviour)

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What are subtle acts of discrimination that may not be intended to hurt the victim but rather reflect a lack of awareness or sensitivity?

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Microaggressions

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What is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination directed against someone based solely on their race?

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Racism

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What is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination directed against someone based solely on their gender?

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Sexism

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What is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination directed against someone based solely on their age?

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Ageism

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What is stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination directed against someone based solely on the belief that heterosexuality is better or more natural than homosexuality?

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Heterosexism

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What is placing one’s own group or race at the centre - that is, tending to reject all other groups but one’s own?

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Ethnocentrism

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What is prejudice that is conscious and clearly and publicly expressed?

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Explicit prejudice

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What is unconscious prejudiced thoughts and feelings about members of other groups?

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Implicit prejudice

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What is blaming a person or a group for the actions of others or for conditions not of their making?

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Scapegoating

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What is redirecting aggression to a target other than the actual source of one’s frustration?

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Displaced aggression

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What are differences in the power, prestige, or privileges of two or more people or groups?

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Status inequalities

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What is a personality pattern characterized by rigidity, inhibition, prejudice, and an excessive concern with power, authority, and obedience?

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Authoritarian personality

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What is an unwarranted positiveness or certainty in matters of belief or opinion?

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Dogmatism

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What is a term describing beliefs that outgroups are less human and deserve discrimination that they are subject to?

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Dehumanization

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What is the tendency to apply social stereotypes to one’s self?

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Self-stereotyping

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What is the anxiety caused by the fear of being judged in terms of a stereotype?

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Stereotype threat

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What is social interaction that occurs on an equal footing, without obvious differences in power or status?

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Equal-status contact

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What is a goal that exceeds or overrides all others? It is a goal that renders other goals relatively less important.

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Superordinate goal

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What is information that helps define a person as an individual, rather than as a member of a group or social category?

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Individuating information

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What are beliefs that people generally get what they deserve?

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Just-world beliefs

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What is the phenomenon where an expectation that prompts people to act in ways that make the expectation come true?

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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What is the term describing a rivalry among groups, each of which regards itself as superior to others?

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Social competition

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