Social Psych Final

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What is the definition of conflict?

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a perceived incompatibility of goals

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What is the definition of aggression?

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behavior whose immediate intent is to hurt someone

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What did the Bushman & Geen Study about models of aggression illustrated by having people view an innocuous vs violent film and then perform Buss's aggression machine study ?

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compared with those who had watched an innocuos film, people who has watched a highly aggressive boxing match gave other participants stronger shocks on Buss's "aggression machine"

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What is the idea of catharsis

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expressing an emotion can keep it from building up. isn't true

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What did the Park et. al. study about violent media causing aggression show in juvenile delinquent boys?

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Boys who saw aggressive films committed more physical attacks than those who viewed neutral film.

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What is realistic conflict theory?

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the theory that intergroup hostility arises from competition among groups for scarce but valued material resources

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What did the Taylor & Moriarty study show about realistic conflict theory?

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Compared with the cooperative groups the groups in competition for scarce and valued resources like in-group membership better than out-group members.

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What is relative deprivation theory?

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the theory that feelings of discontent arise from the belief that other individuals or other groups are better off.

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Egoistic relative deprivation

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sense you are doing less well than other people. (ex-BMW in neighbors driveway)

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Fraternal Relative Deprivation

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sense that one's group is not doing as well as other groups

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Which is more likely to cause conflict: Egoistic or Fraternal Deprivation?

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Fraternal Deprivation

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What did the Deutsch & Krauss study find?

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The mere availability of a potential threat is enough to bring about its use. Once people have coercive means at their disposal they shift from reward seeking to socially competitive behavior.

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What is a unilateral threat condition in the Deustch & Krauss trucking company study?

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The acme company having control of the gate- result large loss in profit for bolt company and also for acme company

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what is a bilateral threat condition in the Deustch & Krauss Trucking study?

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when both parties had control of the gate- cost to both parties was extreme and unnecessary

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When threats are not permitted or when opponents learn to avoid making threats that spark retaliation what can effectively deter and resolve conflict?

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communication

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What are three blind spots that develop when there is conflict between in-group and out-group members

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1. the in-group can do no wrong
2. the out-group can do no right
3. the in-group is all powerful

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What did the Suefield and Tetlock study show about US- Soviet leadership portayals of each other in public speeches during east-west crisis conflict

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During crisis both sides reflected simplistic thinking but when tension relaxed there were more complex statements.

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What is the definition of Altruism?

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behavior intended to help someone else without any prospect of personal rewards

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What is Egoism?

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Behavior motivated by the desire to obtain personal rewards

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Helping is dependent of people's perception of someone as?

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needing and deserving help

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What is audience inhibition?

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the fear of appearing foolish in front of others

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What did the Latane & Darley Study show about people's reaction to smoke in a classroom where they were filling out questionnaires

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If alone: sought help
With people who did nothing: did nothing

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What did the Latane & Darley Study about people being influences by others to help someone in an emergency

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The more people who didn't react= they didn't react
4 people= 62% helped
alone: helped

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In a social dilemma rewards for each individual are

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in direct conflict with what is best for the group

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What can motivate people to act for the good of the group, regardless of personal cost or benefits?

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Connectedness

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What is a social dilemma?

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a form of interdependence in which the most rewarding action for each individual will, if chosen by all individuals, produce a negative outcome for the entire group

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what two types of social dilemmas offer insight into the social-psych proccesses?

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1-resource depletion dilemmas
2-public goods dilemmas

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What did the Caporael study about public goods dilemmas expressed by a donation of $5 to receive a public good result in?

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50% made the donation, few collected bonus. People relied on everyone else being a better citizen while they were enjoying a free-ride

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We expect to find more cooperation with women because of their greater emphasis on?

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connectednes with others

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There tends to be more cooperation found in what kind of cultures?

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interdependent and group oriented cultures

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When Caporael et. al asked people why they contributed what was their response

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I thought most others would contribute too.

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When Caporael et. al allowed communication what percent of the group donated to the public good?

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84%

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When arousal is high and time for reflection is limited people act on the basis of what?

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most accessible motives or norms

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Planned helping involves

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systematic processing

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What does Baston et. al. suggest in thier empathy-altruism model?

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People experience 2 emotions when they see someone in trouble: personla distress (alarm, axiety etc.) or empathetic concern (sympathy etc.)

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What did the Baston study show when they tested people primed for empathy/non-empathy after watching a person given 10 shocks?

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high empathy-high percentage of thsoe that could not escape and had to watch volunteered to take the place of the person being shocked
low empathy-walked out the door

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What is negotiation?

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the process by which parties in conflict communicate and influence each other to reach agreement

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What are the two types of aggression?

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Instrumental- agression used as a means to an end, to control others or obtain valuable reasources.
Hostile- driven by spontaneous anger due to insult, disrespect or other threats to self-esteem

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What triggers instrumental aggression?

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the prosepect of rewards

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what motivates hostile agression?

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anger or negative feelings

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conflict is resolved by which 3 solutions

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distributive- mutual compromise and concessions that carve up a fixed-size pie or imposed
imposed-dictated by one party
and integrative- both benefit

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what are superordinate goals?

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shared goals that can be attained only if groups work together

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what is prosocial behavior

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behavior intended to help someone else

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Which kinds of helping has been natuarally selected because becasue they increase survival of specific genes.

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reciprocal and kin helping

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negative-state relief model of helping

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theory that begins with the assumption people hate to watch others suffer, so helping is due to relieve helper's own distress