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Matching Hypothesis

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males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners

2
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Similarity effects

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people do better in relationships when they are similar

3
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Reciprocity effects

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liking those who show that they like you

4
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inferences that people draw about the causes of events

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attributions

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Ex) son banged up car due to carelessness

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internal attributions

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Ex) son banged up car due to bad weather

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external attributions

7
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what is an example of internal-stable causes

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ability or intelligence

8
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what is an example of external-unstable causes?

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luck, chance, opportunity

9
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environmental or external permanent reasons for an outcome

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external-stable causes

10
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personal temporary reasons why something happened

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internal-unstable causes

11
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example of external-stable causes

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task difficultly

12
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environmental or external temporary reasons for an outcome

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external-unstable causes

13
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example of internal-unstable causes

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effort, mood,fatigue

14
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personal permanent causes for an outcome

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internal-stable causes

15
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who came up with the Model of Attribution Theory?

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Bernard Weiner

16
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this error refers to observer’s bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining other’s behavior

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Fundamental Attribution Error

17
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widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group

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Stereotype

18
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preconceived opinion or attitude a person has that is not based on reason or actual experience

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Prejudice

19
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treating someone differently because of thier membership to a particular group

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Discrimination

20
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True or False: Prejudice is an implicit attitude

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True

21
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what is a explicit attitude

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attitudes that one holds consciously and can readily describe

22
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what is an implicit attitude

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are covert attitudes that are expressed in subtle autonomic responses over which one has little conscious control

23
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a group that one belongs to and identifies with

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ingroup

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a group that one does not belong to or identify with

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outgroup

25
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the tendency to attribute one’s success to personal factors and one’s failures to situational factors

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Self-Serving Bias

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True or False: Self-Serving Bias grows weaker as time passes from said event

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False

27
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expectations about a person cause us to treat the person a certain way and then cause the person to behave in ways that confirm the expectations

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

28
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What is Defensive Attributions

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blaming the victim

29
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what is Confirmation Bias?

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seeking information that supports one’s beliefs while not pursuing dis-confirming information

30
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when a belief and an experience don’t add up, ex) when you meet someone that goes against their stereotype

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Cognitive Dissonance

31
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when you give a verbal and physical yes

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consent

32
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when you say yes but on the inside your saying no

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compliance

33
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What is the By-stander Effect ?

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People are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups rather than when they are alone

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a reduction in effort by individuals when they work in groups compared to when they work alone

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Social Loafing

35
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how can you decrease social loafing ?

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smaller group size, and identify individual work

36
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widely shared expectations about how people in certain positions are supposed to behave

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social roles

37
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what man ran the prison social experiment when random college student radically fell into harsh social roles based on their environment

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Phillip Zimbardo

38
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what was learned from Stanley Milgram’s “Teacher/Learner” experiment ?

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that strong pressure from an authority figure can make decent people do indecent things to others

39
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what are men looking for in women?

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youthfulness and physical attractiveness because that is associated with greater reproductive potential

40
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what do women look for in men?

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mate’s ambition, social status, and financial potential because these traits should be associated with the ability to invest material resources in children

41
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learned helpfulness

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a passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable averse events - occurs when individuals believe that events are beyond their control