front 1 Social Psychology | back 1 Study of the causes, consequences and influence of social contexts |
front 2 Social Influence | back 2 Ability to control another person’s behavior |
front 3 Aggression | back 3 Behavior whose purpose is to harm another |
front 4 Frustration-aggression principle | back 4 Principle stating that people aggress only when their goals are thwarted |
front 5 Gender and Aggression | back 5 Gender being male is the best predictor of aggression / Status and/or dominance may be threatened. |
front 6 Self-esteem and aggression | back 6 excessively high-self esteem can lead to aggression |
front 7 Cooperation | back 7 Behavior by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit |
front 8 Prejudice | back 8 Positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their group membership |
front 9 Discrimination | back 9 positive or negative behavior toward another person based on their group membership |
front 10 Our own groups vs. other groups | back 10 people tend to evaluate actions of their own group or team members much more favorably than those of outgroup members. |
front 11 Group Polarization | back 11 The tendency for groups to make decisions that's are more extreme then any member would have made alone |
front 12 Groupthink | back 12 Tendency for groups to reach consensus in order to facilitate interpersonal harmony |
front 13 Deindividuation | back 13 when immersion in a group causes people to become less aware of their individual values |
front 14 Diffusion of Responsibility | back 14 Tendency for individuals to feel diminished responsibility for their actions when they are surrounded by others who are acting the same ways |
front 15 Altruism | back 15 Behavior that benefits another without benefitting oneself |
front 16 Reciprocal Altruism | back 16 Behavior that's benefits another with the expectation that those benefits will be returned in the future |
front 17 Attraction | back 17 caused by situational, physical, and pschological factors. |
front 18 Symmetry | back 18 balanced proportions |
front 19 Proximity | back 19 breeds fondness |
front 20 Weight or Height | back 20 that a man's height and woman's weight were among the best predictors of how many responses a personal ad received, and another study found that psychical attractiveness was the only factor that predicted the only dating choices of both women and men. |
front 21 Mere Exposure Effect | back 21 The tendency for liking increases with the frequency of exposure |
front 22 Attraction and Parenting | back 22 Physical attractiveness is the major factor in attraction (and elicits all kinds of preferential treatment) These factors are also predictors of good genes and good parenting. |
front 23 Sexual Behavior (Male vs. Female Selectiveness) | back 23 women tend to be choosier. Small changes in courtship ritual can cause men to be choosier (Cost and Seeking Long-Term) |
front 24 Marriage | back 24 is a norm in many cultures as they fall in love |
front 25 Why People Marry? | back 25 love |
front 26 Passionate Love | back 26 Experience involving feelings of euphoria, intimacy, and intense sexual attraction |
front 27 Companionate Love | back 27 Experience involving affection, intimacy, trust, and concern for a partners well being |
front 28 Social Exchange | back 28 Hypothesis that people remain in relationships only as long as they perceive a favorable ratio of costs to benefits |
front 29 Equity Motive | back 29 state of affairs in which the cost-benefit ratios of the two partners are roughly equal |
front 30 Social Influence | back 30 the ability to control another person's behavior |
front 31 Hedonic Motive | back 31 refers to the influence of a person's pleasure and pain receptors on their willingness to move towards a goal or away from a threat. |
front 32 Approval Motive | back 32 how people go about being accepted in society and what may or may not be approved by social standards. |
front 33 Accuracy Motive | back 33 motivated to believe what is right and avoid believing what is wrong. |
front 34 Pleasure seeking and social influence | back 34 is the most basic of most |
front 35 Rewards and Punishments can backfire. Why? | back 35 the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in that activity |
front 36 Norms | back 36 customary standards for behavior that are widely shared by members of a culture |
front 37 Normative Influence | back 37 occurs when another person's behavior provides information about what is appropriate |
front 38 Norm of Reciprocity | back 38 the unwritten rule that people should benefit those who have benefited them |
front 39 Conformity | back 39 the tendency to do what others do simply because others are doing it (implied pressure) |
front 40 Obedience | back 40 the tendency to do what powerful people tell us to do |
front 41 Attitude | back 41 enduring positive or negative evaluation of an object or event |
front 42 Belief | back 42 enduring piece of knowledge about an object or event |
front 43 Persuasion | back 43 person's attitudes or beliefs are influenced by communication from another person |
front 44 Heuristic Persuasion | back 44 the process by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to habit or emotion |
front 45 Systematic Persuasion | back 45 the process by which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to reason |
front 46 Foot-in-the-door | back 46 a technique that involves a small request followed by a larger request |
front 47 Cognitive Dissonance | back 47 unpleasant state that arises when a person recognizes the inconsistency of his or her actions, attitudes, or beliefs |
front 48 Stereotyping | back 48 the process by which people draw inferences about others based on their knowledge of the categories to which others belong |
front 49 Perceptual Confirmation | back 49 when observers perceive what they expect to perceive |
front 50 Self-fulfilling prophecy | back 50 for people who are faced with disconfirming evidence to modify their stereotypes rather than abandon them. |
front 51 Gun or Camera | back 51 both white and black people thought more of the black targets were holding guns instead of cameras |
front 52 Attribution | back 52 an inference about the cause of a person's behavior |
front 53 Dispositional Attributions | back 53 attribute someone's internal disposition as cause |
front 54 Situational Attributions | back 54 attribute the external situation as cause |
front 55 Correspondence Bias | back 55 the tendency to make a dispositional attribution even when a person's behavior was caused by the situation |
front 56 Actor-Observer Effect | back 56 the tendency to make situational attributions for our own behaviors while making dispositional attributions for the identical behavior of others |