Social Psychology Test 4 Gsu

Front 1

Aggression stemming form feelings of ander and aimed at inflicting pain

Back 1

Hostile Aggression

Front 2

Aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain

Back 2

Instrumental Aggression

Front 3

The notion that "blowing off stem"- by performing an aggressive act, watching others engage in aggressive behaviors, or engaging in a fantasy of aggression- relieves built up aggressive energies and hance reduces the likelihood of further aggressive behaviors

Back 3

Catharsis

Front 4

A hormone associated with aggression

Back 4

Testosterone

Front 5

Girls gossiping or pyschological harm as means of aggression

Back 5

Relational Aggression

Front 6

Men are more ______ aggressive.

Back 6

Physical

Front 7

Women are more ______ aggressive.

Back 7

Passive or psychological

Front 8

____ of people arrested for violent crimes were illegaly drunk at the time of their arrest.

Back 8

75%

Front 9

An object that is associated with aggressive responses (Ex. a gun)and whose mere presence can increase the probability of aggression

Back 9

Aggressive Stimuli

Front 10

Teh idea that we learn social behavior (Ex. aggression) by observing others and imitating them

Back 10

Social Learning Theory

Front 11

A hostile or negative attitude toward a distinguishable group of people, based solely on their membership in the group

Back 11

Prejudice

Front 12

unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group simply because of his or her membership in that group

Back 12

Discrimination

Front 13

A generalization about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members

Back 13

Stereotype

Front 14

Outwardly acting unprejudiced while inwardly maintaining prejusiced attitudes

Back 14

Modern/Subtle Prejudice

Front 15

The tendancy to make dispositional attributions about an entire group of people

Back 15

Ultimate Attribution Error

Front 16

The apprehension experienced by members of a group that their behavior might confirm a cultural stereotype

Back 16

Stereotype Threat

Front 17

The case whereby people (1) have an expectation about what another person is like, which (2) influences how they act toward that person, which (3) causes that person to behave consistenly with people's original expectations, making the expectations come true.

Back 17

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Front 18

The situation that exists when two or more groups need wach other and must depend on each other to accomplish a goal that is important to each of them

Back 18

Mutual Interdependence

Front 19

A classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and raise the self-esteem of children by placing them in small desegregated groups and making each child dependent on the other children in the group to learn the course material and do well in the class

Back 19

Jigsaw Classroom

Front 20

People's perceptions of what behaviors are approved or disapproved of by others

Back 20

Injunctive Norms

Front 21

People's perceptions of how people actually behave in given situations, regardless of whether the behavior is approved or disapproved of by others (Ex. littering)

Back 21

Descriptive Norms

Front 22

Persuasive messages that attempt to change people's attitudes by arousing their fears

Back 22

Fear-arousing Communication