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38 Cards in this Set
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What is social influence?
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the control of one person's behavior by another
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What are the 3 basic desires that make people susceptible to social influence?
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1. Hedonic Motive
2. Approval Motive 3. Accuracy Motive |
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What is the Hedonic Motive?
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Pleasure is better than pain.
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What is the Approval Motive?
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A customary standard or behavior that is shared by members of a culture.
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What is conformity?
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Doing what others do, just because they are doing it.
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What is the Accuracy Motive?
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Changing our attitudes, informational influences.
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What is cognitive dissonance?
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Uncomfortable feeling when thoughts and behaviors are not consistent.
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What is the foot-in-door technique?
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Agreeing to small task might lead to getting a bigger task.
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What is categorization?
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Identifies with something as a member of a class or related stimuli.
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Characteristics of Stereotyping?
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often inaccurate, overused, automatic & self-perpetuated.
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What is an illusory correlation?
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mistaken impression of relation between variables
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What is perceptual confirmation?
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The tendency for people to see what they expected to see.
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What is a self-fulfiling prophecy?
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expectations influence actions >> outcomes then confirm our expectations
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Work of Rosenthal?
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expectations could effect IQ scores. Discriminating climate input, response and feedback.
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Aronson Jigsaw Classroom Study?
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different kids were taught different information and then the kids had to teach each other. Performance varied.
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What is an attribution?
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casual influences on why people behave the way they do.
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What is the "Just World Hypothesis"
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victims have done something in life which justifies what happened to them
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What is a situational (external) attribution?
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things outside of you, environment
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What is a dispositional (personal) attribution?
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relates to you informally
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Fundamental Attribution Error-- what is it?
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Tend to over-emphasize role of personality & underestimate role of context in people's behavior.
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Actor-Observer Effect-- what is it?
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Tendency to make situational attribution when explaining our own behavior
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What are the 4 stages of pregnancy?
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1. Zygote stage-1st 2 weeks
2. Embryonic stage-3 to 8 weeks 3.Germinal stage-8 to 12 weeks 4. Fetal stage- 12 weeks until the birth |
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What are teratogens?
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agents that can impair physical and cognitive development in womb
ex. drugs and viruses |
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What are reflexes?
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pattern of motor skills and responses triggered by sensory stimulation
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When is a newborn's perception fully grown?
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starts maturing from 6 to 9 months but is mature at about 1 year.
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What is the cephalocaudal rule?
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head to feet rule
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What is the proximodistal rule?
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close/ far away rule
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What is the KIDS assessment tool? What does it do?
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Kent Inventory of Development Skills. Scale to tell parents what their babies can do.
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Why do babies develop skills at different times in different cultures?
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Different cultures raise their babies different therefore teaching skills at different times
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Who was Jean Piaget?
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Famous Swiss Psychologist/ Interested in Children
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What is the sensorimotor stage (infancy)?
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discovering our world
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What is Schemas?
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theories about or models of the way the world works
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What is Asssimilation?
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the process by which infants apply their schemas in novel situations
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What are Jean Piaget's Four Stages of development?
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1.Sensorimotor Stage (infancy)
2. Preoperational Stage (2-6 years) 3. Concrete Operational Stage (6-11 years) 4. Formal Operational Stage (11 years to adulthood) |
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What is Accomadation?
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process by which infants revise thier schemas in light of new information
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What is object permanence?
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idea that objects continue to exist even when not visible
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What is the Preoperational Stage?
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just beginning to represent world with words and images
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What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
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learn how various actions can affect or transform
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