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32 Cards in this Set
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Attachment Theory |
How our early attachments with our parents shape our relationships for the rest of our lives |
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Secure Attachment Style |
low avoidance, low anxiety, comfortable with intimacy and wants to be close to others during times of threat and uncertainty |
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Anxious-Preoccupied Style |
high anxiety, low avoidance, "clingy", low self esteem but value intimacy |
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Dismissive-Avoidant Style |
low anxiety, high avoidance, don't see value of close relationships |
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Fearful-Avoidant Style |
high anxiety, high avoidance, discomfort with close relationships, desire closeness, but feel unworthy |
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Propinquity |
physical proximity |
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functional distance |
the tendency of an architectural layout to encourage or inhibit certain activities, including contact between people |
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How does proximity affect relationships and attraction? |
People tend to automatically like the people they are going to have to interact with, mere exposure effect |
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Mere Exposure Effect |
repeated exposure to a stimulus leads to greater liking of the stimulus |
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Investment Model of Interpersonal Relationships |
maintains that rewards, few alternative partners, and investments in the relationship make partners more committed to each other |
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Three Components of the Triangular Theory of Love |
intimacy, passion, commitment = consummate love |
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Communal Relationships |
individuals feel a special responsibility for one another and give and receive according to the principle of need; often long term |
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Exchange Relationships |
people feel little responsibility toward one another; giving and receiving governed by concerns about equity and reciprocity |
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Halo Effect |
The common belief that attractive people possess a host of positive qualities beyond their physical appearance |
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Stereotypes |
beliefs that certain attributes are characttersitic of members of particular groups, cognitive |
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Prejudice |
a negative attitude or affective response toward a certain group and its individual members, affective |
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Discrimination |
unfair treatment of members of a particular group based on their membership int hat group, behavioral |
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Minimal Group Paradigm |
researchers create groups based on arbitrary and seemingly meaningless criteia and then examine how the memberso f these minimal groups are inclined to behave towards one another |
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Social Identity Theory |
a person's self-concept and self-esteem derive not only from personal identity and accomplishments, but also from the status and accomplishments of the various groups to which the person belongs |
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Basking in Reflected Glroy |
tendency for people to take pridei nthe accomplishments of those with whom they are in some way associated, as when fans identify with a winning team |
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Disability Study |
field of study rooted in the Disability Rights movement, considers people with disabilites to be a historically oppressed minority group, considers disability to be as much of a product of one's situation and evnironment as one's imparment, views positively |
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How does DS view stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination? |
views as the result of biased "stuff" in the world |
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Modern Racism |
directed at groups taht exist alongside rejection of explicity racist beliefs, mroe subtl |
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Stereotype Threat |
fear that one will be treated consistent with a stereotype or that one will confirm a stereotype through his or her actions |
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Group, according to Zander and Cartwright |
a collection of individuals who have relations to one another that makes them itnerdependent to some significant degree |
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Risky Shift Phenomenon |
tendency for gouprs to make risker decisions than individuals would |
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Approach/Inhibition Theory |
maintains that high-power individuals are inclined to go after their goals and make quick judgments, whereas low-power individuals are more likely to constrain their behavior and attend to others carefully |
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Social Facilitation |
initally a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect - positive or negative - of the presence of others on performance |
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Group Polarization |
tendency for group decision to be more extreme than those made by individuals; whatever way the individuals are leaning, group discussion tends to make them lean further in that direction |
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Social Loafing |
tendency to exert less effort when working on a group project in which individual contributors cannot be monitored |
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Groupthink |
a kind of faulty thinking by highly coehsive groups in which the crticial scrutiny that should be devoted to the issues at hand is subverted by social pressures to reach a consensus |
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What are the characteristics of a mob and when does deindividuation occur? |
impulsivity, irrationality, emotionality ,antisocial activity; anonymity and diffusion of responsibility people often feel in large groups can lead to deindividuation |
