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Social psychology recap questions

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The tendency to think something is likely to happen because examples of it happening are easy to remember   Availability heuristic  
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The best option in this situation is to remain silent. However you could get lucky by snitching   Prisoner’s dilemma  
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When the ABCs of an attitude don’t match up   Cognitive dissonance  
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When people act like part of a mob and aren’t worried about their individual consequences.   Deindividuation  
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When someone does better when they are being watched or are part of a group   Social Facilitation  
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Name 2 out of the 4 causes of conflict   Revenge, Competition for Scarce Resources Selfish or Unfriendly Motives of Others Miscommunication  
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What are 2 out of the 4 reasons people conform   Normative social influence (want to fit in) Informational social influence (want to be right)  
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When favors are expected to be returned   Reciprocity  
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A personality/government type prone to scapegoating   Authoritarianism  
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When your thoughts and actions cause an event to unfold in a certain way.   Self-Fulfilling Prophecy  
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The way you think an event should/will play out   Script  
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Providing something for no charge with the hope someone will eventually buy something.   Free Gift Technique  
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What is one factor that affects obedience?   Prestige of Authority The obedience of others/ lack of obedience of others Personality  
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Considering your group to be better than others   Ethnocentrism  
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Asking for something small and then making larger requests. technique   Foot in the door  
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Raising the price once someone has shown interest or committed to buying.   Low-ball technique  
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Asking for something large and then making smaller requests   Door in the face technique  
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Thinking your chances of winning go up the more you lose in a game of chance   Gambler’s fallacy  
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Judging people based upon how much they resemble the prototype.   Representative heuristic  
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Exerting less effort when you are a member of a group and your efforts will be hidden.   Social loafing  
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Pairing a neutral stimulus with a stimulus which will cause someone/thing to associate them with each other.   Classical conditioning  
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Providing rewards to increase desired behavior and administering punishments to reduce unwanted behavior.   Instrumental conditioning  
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3 ways to manage conflict   Bargaining 3rd party intervention (mediation, arbitration etc.) Superordinate Goal (work towards an important goal  
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Aggression used to gain some personal benefit   Instrumental aggression  
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Trying to convince someone of something using data and reasoning. They will need to pay attention and think.   Central Route Processing  
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Unselfish regard for the welfare of others   Altruism  
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Trying to convince someone to do something by showing images and using words not necessarily related to the product.   Peripheral route processing  
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Results from frustration and is not necessarily intended to produce benefits.   Hostile Aggression  
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Do violent video games cause children to be violent?   Inconclusive, but children who played aggressive games were more aggressive than ones who did not play them directly after. Children who identified with violent characters were more aggressive as adults.  
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The 4 biomedical explanations for aggression   Brain damage Genetics Drugs Hormones  
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What are the 4 reasons people help?   Personal gain/ rewards outweigh costs Emergency Empathy Negative state relief/ make yourself feel better or good  
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Wrongly attributing something to internal factors/ not considering external factors. “He’s poor because he’s lazy”   the fundamental attribution error  
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Name 2 factors that influence attraction   Proximity Similarity Physical attractiveness Familiarity Reciprocity  
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The social phenomena in which people don’t help because of the presence of others   the bystander effect  
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Attributing the success of others to external factors and attributing personal success to internal factors   Actor- Observer bias  
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Getting short term personal gains without worrying about long term group consequences   Social Dilemmas  
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Blaming an outgroup for the problems of society   Scapegoating  
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What 2 things are essential when resolving conflict   Communication, Trust  
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A belief about how someone should behave based on their appearance/ a mental representation   Schema  
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