Social Influence 18

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social influence

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the process whereby one person's behavior is affected by the words or actions of others

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deindividuation

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a psychological state occuring in group members that results in loss of individuality and a tendency to do things not normally done when alone

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conformity

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changing ones behavior or beliefs to math those of others, generally as a result of real or imagined, though unspoken, group pressure

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compliance

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adjusting ones behavior because of an explicit or implicit request

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obedience

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changing behavior in response to a demand from an authority figure

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aggression

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an act that is intended to cause harm to another person

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frusturation-aggression hypothesis

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a proposition that frusturation always leads to some form of aggressive behavior

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environmental psychology

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the study of the relationship between behavior and the physical environment

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helping behavior

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any act that is intended to benefit another person

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altruism

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an unselfish concern for another's welfare

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arousal: cost reward theory

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a theory attributing people's behavior to their efforts to reduce the unpleasant arousal they feel in the face of someone's need or suffering

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bystander effect

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a phenomenon in which the chances that someone will help in an emergency decrease as the number of people present increases

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empathy-altruism theory

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a theory suggesting that people help others because of empathy with their needs

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cooperation

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any type of behavior in which people work together to attain a goal

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competition

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behavior in which individuals try to attain a goal for themselves while denying that goal to others

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conflict

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the result of a persons or groups belief that another person or group stands in the way of their achieving a valued goal

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social dilemmas

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situations in which actions that produce rewards fro one individual will produce negative consequences if adopted by everyone

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prisoner's dilemma

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a social dilemms in which mutual cooperation guarentees the best mutual outcome

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resource dilemma

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a situation in which people must share a common resource, creating conflicts between the short-term interests of individuals and the long-term interests of the group

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zero-sum game

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a social situation in which one persons gains are subtracted from another persons resources, so that the sum of the gains and losses is zero