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Social psychology Exam 4
Marquette Franzio
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/02/2012

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attachment
Definition
the strong emotional bond a young child forms with her / his primary caregiver.
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Two kinds of attachment
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Secure and Insecure
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Secure attachment
Definition
positive self esteem and believe that people are basically loving and trustworthy. Low anxiety and Low avoidance. Handle relationship conflict by constructively discussing and forgiving. expect intimate relationships to endure.
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3 types of insecure attachment
Definition
Preoccupied attachment style, dismissing avoidant attachment style, fearful-avoidant attachment style
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Preoccupied attachment style
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Positive expectations that people will be loving and trustworthy
Negative view of themselves not being worthy of others love
Low avoidance, high anxiety. Insecure and strong intimacy needs
Needy, stage 5 clinger
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Dismissing avoidance attachment
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avoid intimacy, don't trust anyone Often popular, take advantage of the relationship, whatever you can get out of it. Often align themselves with the preoccupied attachment
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Fearful avoidant attachment style
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low self esteem, low interpersonal. always on the social fringe, feel they will be rejected wont' approach people.
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Friends with benefits
Definition
Half of college students have had at least one Friends with benefits relationship
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Passionate love
Definition
sexual mating system starts off quickly and dies out quickly
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Compassionate love/ Romantic love
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attachment style
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Highly educated women are more likely to
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engage in oral sex/ annal sex/ homosexual activity
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Aggression
Definition
behavior intended to harm or inure some person, oneself, or an object
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Alcohol consumption
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increases likelihood of aggression
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Social learning theory
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people learn social behaviors mainly through observation and cognitive processing of information
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Observational learning
Definition
learning a behavior by observing and imitating the behavior of others
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Vicarious conditioning
Definition
process by which a person learns the consequences of an action by observing its consequences for someone else
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Culture of honor
Definition
belief system in which males are socialized to protect their reputation by resorting to violence
Honor cultures tend to have strong norms of politeness
farming cultures, lawless settings
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Cross sex biggest problem
Definition
Sexual tension 1/4 fail because of sexual tension
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Cross sex relationships sexual content
Definition
More when the relationship is new.
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Friends with benefits
Definition
50% of college students have had it once, 1/3 on multiple locations
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Pro Social Behavior
Definition
Voluntary behavior that is carried out to benefit another person. Example holding the door open for someone
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Egoistic Helping
Definition
a form of helping in which the ultimate goal of the helper is to increase his or her own welfare.
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Altruistic Helping
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a form of helping in which the ultimate goal of the helper is to increase the others welfare without anything in return.
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KIN SELECTION
Definition
a theory that people will exhibit preferences for helping blood relatives because this will increase the odds that their genes will be transmitted to subsequent generations.
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Reciprocal Helping
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An evolutionary principle stating that people expect that anyone helping another will have that favor returned at some future time, also known as reciprocal altruism.
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Norm of social justice
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we should help when we believe that others deserve our assistance.
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Norm of social responsibility
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we should help when others are in need and dependent on us
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By stander intervention
Definition
Step 1 : D you notice something unusual happening
Step 2: Do you decide something is wrong and help is needed
Step 3 Do you think you have responsibility to help
Step 4 Do you know the appropriate form of help to render
Step 5 How do you decide to implement your form of help
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Arousal Cost Reward Model
Definition
1. Witnessing person in distress causes unpleasant arousal
2. Bystander evaluates costs and rewards for helping
3. Decides whether to help or not.
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Instrumental aggression
Definition
proactive aggression, the intentional use of harmful behavior to achieve some other goal, like a robbery. just to get the money. anticipation of reward, or avoidance of punishment
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Hostile aggression
Definition
reactive aggression . triggered by anger and intentionally harmful behavior is to cause injury or death to the victim
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Rape Myth
Definition
The false belief that deep down women enjoy forcible sex and find it sexually exciting
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cognitive-neoassociationist model
Definition
we experience negative affect due to some unpleasant condition. This becomes cognitively associated with specific types of negative thoughts. . The more they are activated the stronger they become.
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frustration - aggression hypothesis
Definition
Theory of aggression defined frustration as any external condition that prevents you from obtaining the pleasures you had expected to enjoy. If you are prevented from doing something you want to do.
3 things Frustration elicits the drive to attack others
every act of aggression could be traced back to some previous frustration
engaging in aggression causes catharsis
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Catharsis
Definition
reduction in the aggressive drive following an aggressive act.
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page 417 two factor theory of emotion, stanley schacter
Definition
when we become aroused we often don't know what that means. interpreting whats around us, look to cues attaching an emotional label.
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figure 10.9 theories fo relationships..
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Exit Voice Active
neglect loyalty Passive
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Three kinds of aggression
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physical, verbal, indirectly aggressive.
Men mor physical , woman more indirectly, verbal the same
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bobo doll study
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observing aggr
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personal distress and empathy.
Definition
un pleasant arousal state. you see something bad and exprierence empathy, you want ot relieve the suffering.
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social inhibition effect diffusion of responsibility.

audience inhibition effect
don't want to define it isn't an emergency and
information dependence -
Definition
5 step model and identify each step. wher ein the model the diffusion responsibility occurs.
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empathy-altruism hypothesis
Definition
Uncomfortable, either you have empathy or it causes distress to you.
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