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The Human Puzzle Chapter 10 Study Materials

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Aggression   Hostile or forceful action intended to do harm; harming or hurting another person; achieving one’s goals at another’s expense.  
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Altruistic Behavior   Helping behavior. Selfless behavior designed to benefit others.  
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Attitude   A prevailing and consistent tendency to react in a given way, describable as being positive or negative and having important motivational consequences.  
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Attributions   In social psychology, the explanations we devise for our own behavior or for the behavior of others.  
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Biological Altruism   Altruism presumably motivated by the need for genetic material to survive and reproduce.  
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Bystander Effect   Phenomenon in which individuals who witness emergency situations do not offer assistance or respond in other helpful ways.  
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Cognitive Dissonance   A state of conflict between beliefs and behavior or between expectations and behavior.  
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Commitment    The decision-making aspect of Sternberg’s theory of love; involves deciding that one is in love and resolving what to do about it.  
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Compliance   Acceding to the wishes and desires of others.  
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Conformity    A change in attitudes or beliefs as a result of social pressure.  
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Consummate Love   Sternberg’s label for love that is marked by passion, intimacy,and commitment. A deep and abiding kind of love.  
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Dispositional Attribution   The inference that some internal characteristic explains a behavior.  
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Ethologist    One who studies the behaviorof animals in their natural habitats.  
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Frustration    The prevention of or interference with an activity directed toward a goal.  
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Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis   Dollard and Miller’s belief that the most common cause of aggression is the anger that accompanies frustration, which is caused by being prevented from attaining a goal.  
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Interpersonal Attraction   A degree of liking that is often preliminary to strong liking or loving.  
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Intimacy    In Sternberg’s theory of love, refers to emotions that lead two people to want to share things.  
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Love   The province of poets rather than scientists. A strong, interpersonal attraction, says science: a combination of passion, intimacy, and commitment.  
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Opinion    A personal evaluation, good or bad, often manifested as a personal belief.  
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Overjustification   Providing large external rewards for behavior that is initially internally motivated.  
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Passion   In Sternberg’s love theory, a strong, often sexual, and sometimes overwhelming desire to be with another person.  
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Persuasion   Deliberate attempts, more subtle than coercion, to influence attitudes and behavior.  
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Prejudice   A preconceived attitude or opinion arrived at before a person obtains relevant facts and information.  
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Propinquity   Closeness in place or time (physical proximity).  
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Reciprocal Altruism   An apparently altruistic behavior, but the recipient is expected to reciprocate later.  
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Situational Attribution   The inference that behavior has an external cause.  
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Social Psychology   The branch of psychology concerned with relationships between individuals or between individuals and groups.  
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Stereotypes   Widely held attitudes and opinions concerning identifiable groups  
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Territoriality   Characteristic of species whose instinctual tendencies include estab- lishing and defending a geographic area.  
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Triangular Theory of Love   Sternberg’s theory based on the notion that various kinds of love can be differentiated on the basis of the relative degrees of intimacy,passion, and commitment involved.  
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