(Exam 2) Social psych: psyc of grousp + the family [G+GP] Flashcards

Feelings of self-worth that are base on evaluation of relationships with others and membership in social groups

• The tendency for groups to spend more time discussing information that all members know (shared information)
• less time examining information that only a few members know (unshared).

• The solidarity or unity of a group resulting from the development of strong and mutual interpersonal bonds among members and group-level forces that unify the group
• EX. shared commitment to group goals.

• The tendency for members of a deliberating group to move to a more extreme position,
• direction of the shift determined by the majority or average of the members’ predeliberation preferences.

A set of negative group-level processes, including illusions of invulnerability, self-censorship, and pressures to conform, that occur when highly cohesive groups seek concurrence when
making a decision.

• Excluding one or more individuals from a group by reducing or eliminating contact with the person, usually by ignoring, shunning, or explicitly banishing them

Knowledge, expectations, conceptualizations, and other cognitive representations that members of a group have in common pertaining to the group and its members, tasks,
procedures, and resources.

The process of contrasting one’s personal qualities and outcomes, including beliefs, attitudes, values, abilities, accomplishments, and experiences, to those of other people

Improvement in task performance that occurs when people work in the presence of other people.

• A theoretical analysis of group processes and intergroup relations that assumes groups influence their members’ self-concepts and self-esteem
• particularly when individuals categorize themselves as group members and identify with the group.

The reduction of individual effort exerted when people work in groups compared with when they work alone.

A conceptual analysis of self-evaluation processes that theorizes self-esteem functions to psychologically monitor of one’s degree of inclusion and exclusion in social groups

The process by which members of the team combine their knowledge, skills, abilities, and other resources through a coordinated series of actions to produce an outcome.

To take in and raise a child of other parents legally as one’s own.

The trend toward making accommodations to ensure that aging people can stay in their homes and live independently.

Attachment style that involves suppressing one’s own feelings and desires, and a difficulty depending on others.

Attachment style that is self-critical, insecure, and fearful of rejection

Theory that describes the enduring patterns of relationships from birth to death.

Parenting style that is high is demandingness and low in support

A family consisting of an adult couple and their children from previous relationships.

Term used to describe young adults, primarily between the ages of 25 and 34, who return home after previously living on their own.

Injury, death, or emotional harm to a child caused by a parent or caregiver, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Term used to describe people who purposefully choose not to have children.

Term used to describe people who would like to have children but are unable to conceive.

Arrangement where two unmarried adults live together

Within attachment theory, the gaining of insight into and reconciling one’s childhood experiences

Any form of mistreatment that results in harm to an elderly person, often caused by his/her adult child.

Feelings of sadness and loneliness that parents may feel when their adult children leave the home for the first time

Formal agreement to get married.

The family one is born into.

The family one creates, usually through marriage.

Theory that says a person cannot be understood on their own, but as a member of a unit.

• Care provided by alternative families to children whose families of orientation cannot adequately care for them
• often arranged through the government or a social service agency

Partnering with someone who is unlike you in a meaningful way.

Partnering with someone who is like you in a meaningful way.

Physical, sexual, or psychological abuse inflicted by a partner.

• A family comprised of at least three generations living together.
• often include many members of the extended family.

The belief, as someone who is abused, that one has no control over his or her situation.

• The process through which prospective spouses compare assets and liabilities of available partners
• choose the best available mate.

A family based on commitment, caring, and close emotional ties.

Homes with more than one adult generation.

Failure to care for someone properly.

A core family unit comprised of only the parents and children.

Parenting that is low in demandingness and high in support.

The use of intentional physical force to cause harm.

Aggressive behavior intended to control a partner

Generation of people responsible for taking care of their own children as well as their aging parents.

• Term used to describe the unpaid work a parent,
• usually a mother, does in the home in terms of housekeeping and childrearing.

• Attachment style
• being comfortable with depending on your partner
• having your partner depend on you

The act of forcing a partner to take part in a sex act against his or her will.

An individual parent raising a child or children

A family formed, after divorce or widowhood, through remarriage.

Two or more people related by blood, marriage, and—occasionally-- by adoption

A family consisting of two parents—typical both of the biological parents-- and their children

Parenting that is low in demandingness and low in support.

An understanding of how relationships operate; viewing oneself as worthy of love and others
as trustworthy