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Ch. 14
Psych. FINAL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Refers to the violent behaviors that are intended to cause psychological or physical harm, or both, to another being | Agression |
| An individual's favorable or unfavorable beliefs, feelings, or actions toward an object, idea, or person | Attitude |
| The inferences we make about the causes of other people's behavior | Attributions |
| The greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help | Bystander effect |
| The feeling of discomfort caused by information that is different from your conception of yourself as a reasonable and sensible person | Cognitive dissonance |
| Occurs when people adjust their behavior to what others are doing or adhere to the norms of their culture | Conformity |
| An extremist group led by a charismatic, totalitarian leader in which coercive methods are used to prevent members from leaving the group | Cult |
| Preferential treatment of certain people that is usually driven by prejudicial attitudes | Discrimination |
| Sharing feeling and understanding about another person's situation | Empathy |
| Occurs when people tend to explain others' behavior in terms of dispositional attributions rather than situational ones | Fundamental attribution error |
| Occurs when people conform to the behavior of others because they view them as a source of knowledge about what they are supposed to do | Informational social influence |
| When we show positive feelings toward people who belong to the same group as us and negative feelings toward those in other groups | In-group/out-group bias |
| The evolutionary favoring of genes that prompt individuals to help their relatives or kin | Kin Selection |
| Occurs when people go along with the behavior of others in order to be accepted by them | Normative social influence |
| Occurs when one or more people follow the direct commands of another person | Obedience |
| The tendency to see all members of an out-group as the same | Out-group homogeneity |
| When a person or group attempts to change our opinions, beliefs, or choices by explaining or arguing their position | Persuasion |
| A biased attitude toward a group of people or an individual member of a group based on unfair generalizations about what members of that group are like | Prejudice |
| Behavior that is beneficial to others | Prosocial behavior |
| When you help others in the hope that they will help you in the future | Reciprocal altruism |
| The tendency to make situational attributions for our failures but dispositional attributions for our successess | Self-serving bias |
| Suggests that men and women face different problems when they seek out mates, and so they often approach relationships in very different ways | Sexual strategies theory |
| The study of the effects of the real or imagined presence of others on people's thoughts, feelings, and actions | Social psychology |
| Occurs when the presence of others improves our performance | Social facilitation |
| Occurs when the presence of others causes one to relax one's standards and slack off | Social loafing |
| The cultural context in which we live imposes rules about acceptable behaivior | Social Norms |
| Says that our likelihood of following either informational or normative social influence depends on 3 different aspects of the group: 1. how important the group is 2. how close the group is in space and time 3. how many people are in the group | Social impact theory |
| Schemas about people based on what they are likely to do or be like based simply on groups to which they belong | Stereotypes |
| 3 components (intimacy, passion, and commitment), in various combinations, can explain all the forms of human love | Triangular theory of love |
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