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Social Psychology
Aggression, Relationships and Racism
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
03/18/2009

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Aggression
Definition
behavior intended to hurt someone.
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Active vs Passive
Definition
With passive a person has plausible deniability, with active it is certain that the person did it
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Verbal vs. Physical
Definition
emotional harm vs. bodily/ownership harm
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Direct vs. indirect aggression
Definition
direct - the person always knows who is responsible. Indirect - experience negative consequences without knowing who the person was that caused it
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Buss Aggression Machine
Definition
a device used to measure aggression by allowing participants to shock one someone.
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Ritualized Aggression
Definition
A survival technique where a species substitutes a less harmful behavior for a more harmful one
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Sanctioned Aggression
Definition
a variation of instrumental aggression, includes sports violence, self defense, military
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Thanatos/Death Wish
Definition
Freud: a repressed death wish manifests into projection
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Aggression Arousal
Definition
arousal feeds emotion
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Aversive incidents
Definition
unpleasant conditions which lead to harmful behavior
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Media influences
Definition
pornography, violence
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Aggressive cues
Definition
prompts that encourage harmful behavior
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Catharsis
Definition
aggressive drive is reduced when one releases aggressive energy with by acting aggressively or fantasizing
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Cognitive priming
Definition
exposure to violence creates harmful behavior causing ideas
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Desensitization
Definition
experiencing a stimulus over and again until the effect lessens or diminishes
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Displacement
Definition
redirection of harmful behavior to a less threatening target than the source
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Frustration
Definition
the blocking of a goal directed behavior
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Frustration Aggressive Theory
Definition
frustration often triggers a readiness to agress
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Hostile Aggression
Definition
harmful behavior driven by anger, goal is to injure
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Instinctive Behavior
Definition
an innate, unlearned conduct pattern that all member of a species have
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Instrumental Aggression
Definition
a harmful behavior not fueled by anger, used as a tool to reach a goal
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Prosocial Behavior
Definition
positive, constructive, helpful when in a group
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Relative deprivation
Definition
perception that one is less well off than who he compares himself to
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Social learning theory
Definition
we learn how to act by observing and imitating others and also with rewards and punishment
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Social scripts
Definition
culturally provided mental instructions on how to act in various situations
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PREJUDICE
Definition
a preconceived negative judgement of a group and its members, an attitude
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STEREOTYPE
Definition
belief about the personal attributes of a group of people
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DISCRIMINATION
Definition
UNJUSTIFIABLE negative behavior toward a group and its members
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RACISM
Definition
prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory toward people of a race
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SEXISM
Definition
prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviors toward people of a given sex
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AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY
Definition
disposed to favor obedience of authority and intolerance to outgroups and those lower in status
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ETHNOCENTRIC
Definition
believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, distain for all other groups
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SOCIAL DOMINANCE ORIENTATION
Definition
motivation to have one's group dominate other groups
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REALISTIC GROUP CONFLICT THEORY
Definition
idea that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources
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SOCIAL IDENTITY
Definition
how we think of ourselves in comparison to groups
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INGROUP
Definition
"Us" group of people that share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity
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OUTGROUP
Definition
"Them" group that people perceive as distinctively different from or part from their ingroup
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INGROUP BIAS
Definition
tendency to favor one's own group
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TERROR MANAGEMENT
Definition
people's self protected emotional/cognitive responses when reminded of their own mortality
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OUTGROUP HOMOGENEITY EFFECT
Definition
perception of outgroup members as more similiar to eachother
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OWN RACE BIAS
Definition
the tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race
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STIGMA CONSCIOUSNESS
Definition
a person's expectations of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination
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GROUP SERVING BIAS
Definition
explaining away outgroup members positive behaviors
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JUST WORLD PHENOMENON
Definition
tendency of people to believe that the world is fair and that people get what they deserve and vice versa
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SUBTYPING
Definition
accomodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as exceptions
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SUBGROUPING
Definition
accomadating individuals who deviate from stereotypes by forming a new stereotype about them
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STEREOTYPE THREAT
Definition
a self confirming apprehension that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype (short man plays basketball)
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IMPLICIT ATTITUDES/AUTOMATIC PREJUDICE
Definition
instant reactions without controlled reaons
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INSTITUTIONALIZED DISCRIMINATION
Definition
institution practices discrimination without knowledge that it is occurring
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MODERN/SUBTLE DISCRIMINATION
Definition
prejudice attitudes surface when they can hide behind the screen of another motive
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MODERN/SUBTLE DISCRIMINATION
Definition
prejudice attitudes surface when they can hide behind the screen of another motive
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NEED TO BELONG
Definition
motivation to bond with others in relationships that provide ongoing positive interaction
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PROXIMITY
Definition
geographical nearness powerfully predicts liking.
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MERE-EXPOSURE EFFECT
Definition
the tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more after the rater has been repeatedly exposed to it
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MATCHING PHENOMENON
Definition
tendency for men and women to choose partners who are similiar to them in attractiveness and and trairs
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PHYSICAL_ATTRACTIVENESS STEREOTYPE
Definition
presumption that physically attractive people have other socially desirable qualities because of their looks
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COMPLEMENTARITY
Definition
tendency in a relationship for one another to complete what is missing in the other
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INGRATIATION
Definition
use of strategies by which people seek to gain another's favor (flattery)
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REWARD THEORY OF ATTRACTION
Definition
idea that we like those whose behavior is rewarding to us or associated with rewarding events
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COMPANIONATE LOVE
Definition
affection for those we feel our lives are deeply intertwined
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SECURE ATTACHMENT
Definition
relationships rooted in trust and marked by intimacy
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PREOCCUPIED ATTACHMENT
Definition
relationships marked by a sense of, one's own unworthiness and anxiety, ambivilance, and possessiveness
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DISSMISSIVE ATTACHMENT
Definition
an avoidant relationship style marked by the distrust of others
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FEARFUL ATTACHMENT
Definition
an avoidant relationship style marked by rejection
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EQUITY
Definition
the outcomes of what people receive in a relationship are the same as what they put into it
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SELF DISCLOSURE
Definition
revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others
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DISCLOSURE RECIPROCITY
Definition
the tendency for one person's intimacy of self disclosure to match that of a conversational partner
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SOCIAL MARKETPLACE
Definition
not all qualities have equal weight
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INTERDEPENDENCE
Definition
dependent on others for some needs
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SELF-VALIDATION
Definition
recognizing self worth and importance
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