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Social Psychology
Social Psychology test 2
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
10/20/2011

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sex
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" " is defined as the anatomical structures you are born with.
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Gender
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The psychological creation of accepted normative behavior of a sex.
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Natural selection
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the evolutionary process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce in particular environments are passed to ensuring generations.
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Evolutionary psychology
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The study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection.
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Early childhood.
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When do gender roles start forming?
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Culture
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The enduring behaviors ideas attitudes and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
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Personal space.
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The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies, it's size depends on our familiarity with whoever is near us
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Intimacy
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Actual body contact to 18 inches Typically reserved for intimate acquaintances.
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Personal distance
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18 inches to 4 feet, close friends or trusted acquaintances.
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Social distance.
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Impersonal relationships, casual acquaintances, work settings. 4 feet to 12 feet.
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Public distance.
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Beyond 12 feet, speaker addressing an audience , interactions with strangers.
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Empathy
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the vicarious experience of another's feelings; putting oneself in another's shoes.
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Faceism
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Emphasis of face, emphasis of body in images of men/women.
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aggression
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Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone.
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Androgynous
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Mixing of both feminine and female characteristics
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Gender role
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A set of behavior expectations for males and females.
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Compliance
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Response to a direct command or request
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Obedience
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Obeying a direct command, often a response to an authority figure
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Conformity
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Response to a social norm
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Norms
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Standards for accepted and expected behavior.
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reactance
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A motive to protect or restore ones sense of freedom
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Normative influence
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Conformity based on a person's desire to fill others expectations often to gain acceptance.
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Informational influence
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- conformity occurring when people accept evidence about reality provided by other people.
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Social facilitation.
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The tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better when others are present.
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Central persuasion.
Definition
The type of persuasion that is direct, i.e. I convince you to do something
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Peripheral persuasion.
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When people are persuaded to do something for reasons other than directly being persuaded. I.e., the speaker is attractive.
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primacy effect
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When given equal information , the tendency to believe the first piece of evidence given.
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Recency effect
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When given equal information, the tendency to believe the most recent information given.
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cult
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a group typically characterized by distinctive ritual and beliefs related to its devotion to a god or a person. Isolation from the surrounding evil culture and a charismatic leader.
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Deindividuation
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Loss of self awareness and evaluation apprehension; occurs in group situations that foster responsiveness to group norms, good or bad.
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Sheriff test
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The study where light was moved and there was no way to tell how far it had moved, yet people were asked how far it had moved.
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Information provided by others
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In ambiguous situations, people to tend to rely on ?
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People were more likely to give false information in the presence of several false answers.
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Asch discovered through her line testing, what about human nature?
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