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social psychology 30
social psychology30 answer
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show a feeling of indifference or distance  
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show descrimination or hostility  
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attitudes   show
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show one ruler with absolute power  
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show the purpose of doing good.  
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show favours an economic system where welath is individual  
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Applied research   show
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show A theory that helping or not helping is a function of emotional arousal and analysis of the costs and rewards of helping.  
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show An expectation about social relationships characterized by a lack of trust and a suppression of attachment needs.  
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Balance theory   show
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show Research designed to increase knowledge about social behavior  
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show Actively identifying with and embracing the success and positive evaluations of others as is they were one's own  
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show A school of psychological thought that advocates the study of observable behavior rather than unobservable mental processes.  
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show An estimate of the probability that something is true.  
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show A person's attitudes toward his or her body.  
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Bystander intervention model   show
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show A theory that people desire cognitive consistency or balance in their thoughts, feelings, and social relationships.  
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Catharsis   show
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Central route to persuasion   show
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Central traits   show
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show Learning through association, when a neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus) is paired with a stimulus (unconditioned stimulus) that naturally produces an emotional response.  
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show The tendency to seek consistency in one's cognitions  
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Collectivism   show
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show The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined.  
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Compliance   show
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show An accomplice of an experimenter whom research participants assume is a fellow participant or bystander.  
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show A yielding to perceived group pressure.  
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Contact hypothesis   show
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show The theory that leadership effectiveness depends both on whether leaders are task oriented or relationship oriented, and on the degree to which they have situational control.  
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show Experimental participants who are not exposed to the independent variable.  
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Correlation coefficient   show
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show Research designed to examine the nature of the relationship between two or more naturally occurring variables.  
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show An inference that the action of an actor corresponds to, or is indicative of, a stable personal characteristic.  
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show A principle of attribution theory stating that for something to be the cause of a particular behavior, it must be present when the behavior occurs and absent when it does not occur.  
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Culture   show
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show Actively disidentifying with and distancing oneself from the failures or negative evaluations of others.  
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Debriefing   show
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Deception   show
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show The loss of a sense of individual identity and a loosening of normal inhibitions against engaging in behavior that is inconsistent with internal standards.  
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show The experimental variable that is measured because it is believed to depend on the manipulated changes in the independent variable.  
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Depressive explanatory style   show
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show Numbers that summarize and describe the behavior or characteristics of a particular sample of participants in a study.  
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Diffusion of responsibility   show
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Discounting principle   show
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Discrimination   show
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Door-in-the-face technique   show
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Egoistic helping   show
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Elaboration likelihood model   show
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Embarrassment   show
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Empathy   show
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show A theory proposing that experiencing empathy for someone in need produces an altruistic motive for helping.  
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Equity theory   show
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show An individual's sense of personal identification with a particular ethnic group.  
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Ethnocentrism   show
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show A psychological process in which arousal caused by one stimulus is transferred and added to arousal elicited by a second stimulus.  
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show Eliciting perceptions of integrity and moral worthiness.  
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show Research designed to test cause-effect relationships between variables.  
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show The degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves those who participate in it.  
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External attribution   show
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show The extent to which a study's findings can be generalized to people beyond those in the study itself.  
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show The tendency to exaggerate how common one's own characteristics and opinions are in the general population  
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show Possession of expressive personality traits.  
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show An experiment conducted in natural, real-life settings, outside the laboratory.  
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Foot-in-the-door technique   show
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Frustration-aggression hypothesis   show
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Functional approach   show
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Fundamental attribution error   show
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Gender   show
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show Culturally based differences between males and females.  
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Gender identity   show
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show A mental framework for processing information based on its perceived male or female qualities.  
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show Bem's theory that children develop schemas containing culturally based gender information which they use to understand themselves and the world.  
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show A society's expectations about the characteristics of females as a group and males as a group.  
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show Two or more people who interact with and influence one another over a period of time, and who depend upon one another and share common goals and a collective identity.  
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Group cohesiveness   show
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Group polarization   show
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Groupthink   show
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show A system of cultural beliefs, values, and customs that exalts heterosexuality and denies, denigrates, and stigmatizes any nonheterosexual form of behavior or identity.  
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show A primary or exclusive attraction to individuals of the other sex.  
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show Timesaving mental shortcuts that reduce complex judgments to simple rules of thumb.  
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Homosexuality   show
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Homunculus   show
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show The intentional use of harmful behavior in which the goal is simply to cause injury or death to the victim.  
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Hypotheses   show
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Ideology   show
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Idiosyncrasy   show
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Illusory correlation   show
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show Assumptions or naive belief systems people make about which personality traits go together  
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show The process by which one integrates various sources of information about another into an overall judgment.  
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show Not being subject to control by others.  
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show The experimental variable that the researcher manipulates.  
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show A philosophy of life stressing the priority of individual needs over group needs, a preference for loosely knit social relationships, and a desire to be relatively autonomous of others' influence.  
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Inferential statistics   show
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show Attempts to persuade people to alter their lifestyles in more healthful directions through the use of the mass media and other communication channels.  
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Information dependence   show
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Informational social influence   show
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Informed consent   show
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show Saying positive things about someone in order to get them to like you.  
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Ingroup   show
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Ingroup bias   show
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show The intentional use of harmful behavior so that one can achieve some other goal.  
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Instrumental conditioning   show
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Interactionism   show
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Internal attribution   show
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show A person's desire to approach another individual.  
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Intimacy   show
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Intimidation   show
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Jealousy   show
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show A cooperative group-learning technique designed to reduce prejudice and raise self-esteem.  
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