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Social Psychology

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The study of the causes and consequences of sociality.

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Aggression

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Behaviour whose purpose is to harm another.

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Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

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A principle stating that animals aggress only when their goals are thwarted.

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Most reliable predictor of aggression is ___.

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Gender.

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Variation over time and geography shows that ___ can play a role in aggression.

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Culture.

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Cooperation

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Behaviour by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit.

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Group

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A collection of people who have something in common that distinguishes them from others.

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Prejudice

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A positive or negative evaluation of another person based on group membership.

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Discrimination

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Positive or negative behaviour toward another person based on their group membership.

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The Prisoner’s Dilemma Game

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Cooperation vs. Noncooperation and punishment.

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The Wason Card-Selection Task

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Ability to detect cheaters that surpasses their capacity for logical reasoning in general.

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Ultimatum Game

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People will pay to punish someone who has treated them unfairly.

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Deindividualism

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A phenomenon that occurs when immersion in agroup causes people to become less aware of their individual values.

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Diffusion of Responsibility

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The tendency for individuals to feel diminished responsibility for their actions when they are surrounded by others who are acting in the same way.

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Altruism

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Behaviour that benefits another without benefitting oneself.

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Kin Selection

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The process by which evolution selects for individuals who cooperate with their relatives.

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Recipricol Altrusim

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Behaviour that benefits another with the expectation that those benefits will be returned in the future.

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___ are more reproductively selective than ___.

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Women, men.

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Mere Exposure Effect

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The tendency for liking ton icrease with the frequency of exposure.

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Three physical factors that may influence attraction:

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Body shape, symmetry, age.

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Passionate Love

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An experience involving feeligns of euphoria, intimacy, and intense sexual attraction.

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Compassionate Love

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An experience involving affection, trust, and concern for a partner’s well being.

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Social Exchange

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The hypothesis that people remain in relationships only as long as they perceive a favorable ratio of costs to benefits.

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Comparison Level

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The cost-benefit ratio that people believe they deserce or could attain in another relationship.

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Social Influence

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The ability to control another perosn’s behaviour.

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Equity

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A state of affairsi n whicih the cost-benefit ratios of two partners are roughly equal.

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Social Influence

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The ability to control another person’s behaviour.

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Hedonic Motive

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People are motivated to experience pleasure, not pain.

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Approval Motive

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People are motivated to be accepted, not rejected, by others.

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Accuracy Motive

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People are motivated to believe what is right, and avoid believing what is wrong.

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Norm

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A customary standard for behaviour that is widely shared by members of a culture.

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Normative Influence

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A phenomenon that occurs when another person’s behaviour provides information about what is appropriate.

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Norm of Reciprocity

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The unwritten rule that people should benefit those who have benefitted them.

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Door-In-The-Face Technique

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A strategy that uses reciprocating concessions to influence behaviour. Big ask followed by small ask.

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Asch’s Conformity Study

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When presented with a set of answers with one clear answer, but when peers answered incorrectly, the participant was 75% likely to conform and pick an incorrrect answer.

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Obedience

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The tendency to do what powerful people tell us to do.

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Milgram’s Obedience Studies

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People obey commands issued by people in power 80% of the time, even if it means killing someone.

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Attitude

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An enduring positive or negative evaluation of an object or event.

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Belief

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An enduring piece of knowledge about an object or event.

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Informational Influence

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A phenomenon that occurs when a person’s behaviour provides information about what is good or right.

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Persuasion

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A phenomenon that occurs when a person’s attitudes or beliefs are influenced by a communication from another person.

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Systematic Persuasion

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The process by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to reason.

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Heuristic Persuasion

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The process by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to emotion or habit.

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Foot-In-The-Door Technique

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A technique that involves a small request followed by a larger request.

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Cognitive Dissonance

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An unpleasant state that arises when a person recognizes the inconsistency of his or her actions, attitudes, or beliefs.

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Social Cognition

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The processes by which people come to understand others.

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Stereotyping

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The process by which people draw inferences about others based on their knowledge of the categories to which others belong.

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Four properties of stereotyping:

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Inaccurate, overused, self-perpetuating, and automatic.

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3 reasons stereotypes are self-perpetuating:

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Perceptual confirmation, self-fulfilling, and subtyping.

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Perceptual Confirmation

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A phenomenon that occurs when observers perceive what they expect to perceive.

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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The tendency for people to cause what they expect to see.

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Subtyping

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The tendency for people who are faced with disconfirming evidence to modify their stereotypes rather than abandon them.

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Attributions

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Inferences about the causes of peoples behaviours.

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Situational Attributions

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When we decide that a person’s behaviour was a result of some temporary aspect of the situation he/she was in.

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Dispositional Attributions

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When we decide a person’s behaviour was caused by his or her relatively enduring tendency to think, feel, or act in a particular way.

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Three aspects of Covariation Model

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Consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus.

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Correspondence Bias

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The tendency to make a dispositional attribution even when a person’s behaviour was caused by the situation.

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Another name for correspondence bias.

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Fundamental attribution error.

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Actor-Observer Effect

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The tendency to make situational attributions for our own behaviour while making dispositional attributions for the identical behaviour of others.