More Psych Soc

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influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

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normative social influence

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influence resulting from one's willingness to accept other's opinions about reality

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informational social influence

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improved performance of tasks in the presence of others, occurs with simple or well learned tasks that are difficult or not yet mastered

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social facilitation

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the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal then when individually accountable

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social loafing

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the loss of self awareness and self restraint occuring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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deindividuation

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the enhancement of a group's prevailing attitudes through discussion within the group

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group polarization (ie conventions)

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the mode of thingking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision making group overrides a realistic appraisal or alternatives

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groupthink

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power of the situation

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social control

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power of the individual

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personal control

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an unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group of people and its members. this usually involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action

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prejudice

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a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people

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stereotype

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unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members

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discrimination

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this psychologist made the black/white face association test

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Anthony Greenwald

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this psychologist asked university female students to grade essays and they mentioned the race. people were nicer in evaluating black students essays

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Kent Harbor

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"us"-people with whom one shares a common identity

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ingroup

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"them"-those perceived as different or apart from one's ingroup

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outgroup

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this psychologist dicovered that women like less masculinized faces

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Perett

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the tendency to favor one's own group

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ingroup bias

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the theory that prejudice offeres an outlet for anger by providing someone to people

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scapegoat theory

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a way to simplify our world

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categorization

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the tendency of epople to believe that the world is just and people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get

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just world phenomenon

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any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy

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aggression

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complete unawareness to to other cultures/cultural differences and they think they are wrong

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stage 1: cultural chauvinism

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aware of others' cultures but judge theirs as better

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stage 2: ethnocentrism

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very aware of other cultures but tries to educate others on their better way

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stage 3: tolerance

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"colorblindness" awareness of other cultures but focusses on similarities and misses key differences

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stage 4: minimazation

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realization that my own way is one of many, and that others are not abnormal or necessarily wrong

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stage 5: cultural understanding

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types of agression triggered by stimuli

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genetic, neural, biochemical (beer)

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the principle that frustration- the blocking of an attempt to acheive some goal creates anger which can generate aggression

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frustration-aggression principle

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what the media says to do, mental tapes for how to act

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social scripts

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a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals or ideas

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conflict

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a situation in which conflicting parties by rationally pursuing their self interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior

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social traps

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as we see "them" as untrustworthy and evil intentioned so "they" see us
(each demonizes another)

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mirror image perceptions

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leads each party to accept credit for good deeds and to shuck the blame for bad deeds

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self serving bias

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may do something to annoy or prevoke someone to bring out a characteristic of them that you prophesized

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self fulfilling prophecy

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the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases the liking of them

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mere exposure effect

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Hatfield defined this as an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship

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passionate love

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the deep affectionate attachement we feel for those with who our lives are intertwined

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companionate love

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a condition to which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they put into it

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equity

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revealing intimate aspects of one's self to others

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self disclosure

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altruism

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unselfish regard for the (can't read it in my notes, look up) in others