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UGA - Psychology 1101 - Social Behavior
Weiten Text (8th Edition) - Chapter 16 - Social Behavior
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
07/23/2010

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Fritz Heider
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The first to describe how people make attributions
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What is social psychology?
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What is the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others?
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What is person perception?
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What is the process of forming impressions of others?
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True/False: Studies show attractive people hold our attention longer than unattractive people?
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True
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True/False: People tend to ascribe undesirable personality characteristics to those who are good looking?
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False
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True/False: Little correlation exists between attractiveness and personality traits?
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True
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True/False: People tend to view attractive people as having more competence than unattractive people?
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True
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True/False: Good looks have a significant impact on perceptions of honesty and integrity?
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False
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How long does it take to draw inferences from facial features?
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1/10th of a second
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What are stereotypes?
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What are widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group?
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Most common stereotypes?
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Sex, age, occupation, and ethnic group
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True/False: If someone's behavior is ambiguous, people are likely to interpret what they see in a way that is inconsistent with their expectations?
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False: consistent with their expectations
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What are illusory correlations?
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What occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen?
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What is the ingroup?
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What is the group that one belongs to and identifies with?
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What is the outgroup?
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What is a group that one does not belong to or identify with?
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What are attributions?
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What are inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behavior, and their own behavior?
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For what reason, mainly, do people make attributions?
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Because they have a strong need to understand their experience
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What are internal attributions?
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What is to ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings?
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What are external attributions?
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What is to ascribe the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints?
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Bernard Weiner's conclusions concerning the attributions people make 
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People often focus on the stability of the causes underlying behavior. 
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What are attitudes?
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What are positive or negative evaluations of objects of thought?
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What is the bystander effect?
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What is: People are less likely to provide needed help when they are in groups than when they are alone?
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Concerning factors of persuasion: What is channel?
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What is the medium through which the message is sent?
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What is cognitive dissonance?
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What is when related cognitions are inconsistent - that is, when they contradict each other?
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What is collectivism?
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What involves putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to?
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What is commitment?
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What is an intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise?
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What is companionate love?
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What is the warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one's own?
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What is conformity?
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What occurs when people yield to real or imagined social pressure?
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What is the defensive attribution?
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What is a tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way?
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What is discrimination?
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What is that which involves behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group?
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What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
Definition
What is that which involves getting people to agree to a small request to increase the chances that they will agree to a larger request later?
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What is the fundamental attribution error?
Definition
What is that which refers to observers' bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others' behavior?
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