Social Psychology Chapter 10-13 – Flashcards

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Propinquity Effect
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The finding that the more we see and interact with people, the more likely they are to become our friends.
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Mere Exposure Effect
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The finding that the more exposure we have to a stimulus, the more apt we are to like it.
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When do we look for similarity v. differences in relationships?
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In high-commitment relationships (like serious romances), people choose others who are similar in things like opinions, personality, interests, opinions, and appearance. In low-commitment relationships (like a fling), we tend to choose others who are different from us.
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Reciprocal Liking
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If Person A knows that Person B likes them, they will be more likely to like Person B back.
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Are attractive people more socially competent?
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Yes, because although it is a stereotype, it is true because of self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Evolutionary Approach to Mate Selection
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A theory derived from evolutionary biology that holds that men and women are attracted to different characteristics in each other (men are attracted to women's appearances, women are attracted by men's resources) because this maximizes their chances of reproductive success.
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Evolutionary Psychology
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The attempt to explain social behavior in terms of genetic factors that have evolved over time according to the principles of natural selection.
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Companionate Love
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The feelings of intimacy and affection we have for someone that are not accompanied by passion or physiological response.
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Passionate Love
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An intense longing we feel for a person, accompanied by physiological arousal; when our love is reciprocated, we feel great fulfillment and ecstasy, but when it is not, we feel sadness and despair.
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How do different cultures view companionate and passionate love?
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American couples tend to value passionate love more than Chinese couples do, while Chinese couples tend to value companionate love more than American couples do. The Taita of Kenya in East Africa, by contrast, value both equally and conceptualize both in romantic love.
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Is love more valued in the West or the East?
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Western societies.
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Attachment Styles
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The expectations people develop about relationships with others, based on the relationship they had with their primary caregiver when they were infants. People's attachment styles can change.
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Secure Attachment Style
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An attachment style characterized by trust, a lack of concern with being abandoned, and the view that one is worthy and well-liked.
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Avoidant Attachment Style
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An attachment style characterized by a suppression of attachment needs because attempts to be intimate have been rebuffed; people with this style find it difficult to develop intimate relationships. This is caused by distant caregivers.
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Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment Style
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An attachment style characterized by a concern that others will not reciprocate one's desire for intimacy, resulting in higher-than-average levels of anxiety. This is caused by inconsistent caregivers.
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Social Exchange Theory
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The idea that people's feelings about a relationship depend on their perceptions of the rewards and costs of the relationship, the kind of relationship they deserve, and their chances for having a better relationship with someone else.
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Comparison Level
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People's expectations about the level of rewards and punishments they would receive in an alternate relationship.
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Comparison Level for Alternatives
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People's expectations about the levels of rewards and punishments they would receive in an alternate relationship.
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Investment Model
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The theory that people's commitment to a relationship depends not only on their satisfaction to the relationship in terms of rewards, costs, and comparison level and their comparison level for alternatives, but also on how much they have invested in the relationship that would be lost by leaving it.
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Equity Theory
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The idea that people are happiest with relationships in which the rewards and costs experienced and the contributions made by both parties are roughly equal.
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Exchange Relationships
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Relationships governed by the need for equity (i.e., for an equal ratio of rewards and costs). Generally newer relationships or acquaintances fall under this category.
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Communal Relationships
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Relationships in which people's primary concern is being responsive to the other person's needs. These are generally long-term relationships, like parent-child.
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_______ are more interested in staying friends with their exes than _________. (Genders)
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Women / men
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People reported liking their online dates less after their first date because they found new ways that they were _________, while profiles usually focused on how they were ________.
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dissimilar / similar
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Prosocial Behavior
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Any act performed with the goal of benefiting another person.
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Altruism
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The desire to help another person, even if it involves a cost to the helper.
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Kin Selection
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The idea that behaviors that help a genetic relative are favored by natural selection.
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Norm of Reciprocity
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The expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future.
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Group Selection Theory
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Controversial theory that says that even if individuals might not benefit from altruism, groups may, which might influence people's decisions to act altruistically.
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A big reward of helping is:
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Feeling good about oneself.
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Empathy
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The ability to put oneself in the shoes of another person and to experience events and emotions (e.g. joy and sadness) the way that person experiences them.
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Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis
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Batson's idea that when we feel empathy for a person, we will attempt to help that person for purely altruistic reasons, regardless of what we have to gain.
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Altruistic Personality
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The qualities that cause an individual to help others in a wide variety of situations.
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How do the genders differ in their prosocial behavior?
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Men do more courageous acts, while women engage in more long-term helping situations.
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In-Groups
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The group with which an individual identifies as a member. We tend to help in-groups out of empathy.
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Out-Groups
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Any group with which an individual does not identify. We tend to help out-groups when there is something in it for us.
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Are religious people more likely to engage in prosocial behavior?
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Religious people are not more likely to feel empathy towards others or help privately, but they are more likely to help when it is in their best interest to do so.
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The effects of mood on prosocial behavior
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Feel Good Do Good (it can make us feel terrific!) Feel Bad Do Good (it can make us feel better.)
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Urban Overload Hypothesis
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The theory that people living in cities are constantly bombarded with stimulation and that they keep to themselves to avoid being overwhelmed by it.
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The effect of residential mobility on prosocial behavior:
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People who have stayed in a location for a while engage in more prosocial behavior towards their community.
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Bystander Effect
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The finding that the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help.
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Pluralistic Ignorance
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The case in which people think that everyone else is interpreting a situation in a certain way, when in fact they are not. Due to normative social influence, people will see others looking unconcerned during ambiguous emergencies and assume everything is okay, thereby portraying an unconcerned look themselves.
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Diffusion of Responsibility
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The phenomenon wherein each bystander's sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witness's increases.
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Five essential steps to help in an emergency:
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1.) Notice the emergency 2.) Interpret the event as an emergency 3.) Assume responsibility 4.) Know how to help 5.) Decide to implement the help.
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How does the type of relationship between individuals affect their likeliness to perform prosocial behaviors?
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We are more likely to help people that we are in communal relationships with, with the exception of important tasks that are correlated highly with our self-esteem since it hurts for friends to do better than us in areas of great importance to our self-esteem.
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Knowing about bystander effect, etc. can make people _________ to help.
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more likely
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Aggression
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Intentional behavior aimed at causing physical harm or psychological pain to another person.
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Hostile Aggression
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Aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed at inflicting pain or injury.
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Instrumental Aggression
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Aggression as a means to some goal other than causing pain (i.e., a football tackle)
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When men live in cultures that lack internal and external threats to their survival, they (are / are not) raised to be aggressive.
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are not
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Violence occurs more in cultures that were originally based on herding, rather than __________.
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agriculture
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What types of aggression are men more likely to commit? Women?
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Men commit more physical aggression, while women commit more relational aggression (by harming people by manipulating relationships)
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Think-Drink Effect
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Alcohol makes people more aggressive, especially if they believe that it will.
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Does heat or pain also lead to aggression?
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Yes
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Frustration-Aggression Theory
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The theory that frustration -- the perception that you are being prevented from attaining a goal -- increases the probability of an aggressive response.
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Children that needed to wait to play with toys behind a wire screen played more aggressively than a control.
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Word.
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When does frustration increase aggression the most?
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Frustration increased aggression most when it is unexpected or when the goal / desired object appears close.
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If we perceive provocation as being intentional:
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we are more likely to reciprocate.
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People who were told that the experimenter's assistant was upset over his unfair chemistry grade before he insulted them retaliated (more times, fewer times) than if they were told about the chem grade after he insulted them.
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fewer times
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Aggressive Stimulus
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An object that is associated with aggressive responses (e.g., a gun) and whose mere presence can increase the probability of aggression.
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Social Learning Theory
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The theory that people learn social behavior (e.g., aggression) in large part by observing others and imitating them. (think of Bandura's Bobo doll experiment)
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Scripts
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Ways of behaving socially that we learn implicitly from our culture.
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Does exposure to violent media increase aggression? Why?
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Yes, because of physiological arousal, the automatic tendency to imitate, and priming of existing aggressive ideas. Also, long-term, there is a numbing effect.
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Is it a good idea to advertise during violent or sexually-explicit programming?
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They are popular, so companies assume they're a good idea to advertise during. However, people don't remember ads as well during violent or sexually-explicit programs as they do during neutral programs.
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Does punishing aggression reduce it?
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It is only a deterrent towards violence if it is prompt and certain, which is not a reality in the American criminal justice system.
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Catharsis
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The notion that "blowing off steam" -- by performing a verbally or physically aggressive act, watching others engage in aggressive behaviors, or engaging in a fantasy of aggression -- relieves built-up aggressive energies and hence reduces the likelihood of further aggressive behavior. But aggressive acts actually lead to more aggressive acts, not less.
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What are we supposed to do with our anger?
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Calmly expressing anger to our offenders is the best thing to do. Building empathy also counters dehumanization and aggression.
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Prejudice
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A hostile or negative attitude towards people in a distinguishable group, based solely on their membership in that group.
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Stereotype
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A generalization about a group of people, in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members.
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Illusory Correlation
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The tendency to see relationships, or correlations, between events that are actually unrelated.
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Are positive stereotypes bad? How?
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They are just as damaging because they deny individuality (i.e., "All Asians are smart").
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How do emotions play in to prejudices?
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If people have strong emotions toward a prejudice, they are immune to logic disproving it.
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Discrimination
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Unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group solely because of his or her membership in that group.
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Are microaggressions real?
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Yes
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Social Distance
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A person's reluctance to get "too close" to another group.
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Modern Racism
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Outwardly acting unprejudiced while inwardly maintaining prejudiced attitudes.
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How can we measure implicit prejudices?
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Bogus lie detectors v. pen and paper answer. There is a difference. Also, those computer tests we did in class, even though those are somewhat flawed.
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How easily are implicit prejudices activated?
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It only takes a little anger or frustration to activate them.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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The case wherein people have an expectation about what another person is like, which influences how they act toward that person, which causes that person to behave consistently with people's original expectations.
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Job interview study
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About race, etc.
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Stereotype Threat
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The apprehension experienced by members of a group that their behavior might confirm a cultural stereotype.
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Institutional Discrimination
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Practices that discriminate, legally or illegally, against a minority group by virtue of its ethnicity, gender, culture, age, sexual orientation, or other target of societal or company prejudice.
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Institutionalized Racism
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Racist attitudes that are held by the vast majority of people living in a society where stereotypes and discrimination are the norm.
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Institutionalized Sexism
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Sexist attitudes that are held by the vast majority of people living in a society where stereotypes and discrimination are the norm.
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Normative Conformity
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The tendency to go along with the group in order to fulfill the group's expectations and gain acceptance.
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We favor ____-groups, even at the expense of _____-groups.
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in / out
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Out-Group Homogeneity
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The perception that individuals in the out-group are more similar to each other (homogeneous) than they really are, as well as more similar than members of the in-group are.
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Ultimate Attribution Error
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The tendency to make dispositional attributions about an entire group of people.
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Blaming the Victim
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The tendency to blame individuals (make dispositional attributions) for their victimization, typically motivated by a desire to see the world as a fair place.
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Realistic Conflict Theory
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The idea that limited resources lead to conflict between groups and result in increased prejudice and discrimination.
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When ______ are scarce, prejudice grows.
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jobs
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Scapegoating
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The tendency for individuals, when frustrated or unhappy, to displace aggression onto groups that are disliked, visible, and relatively powerless.
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Mutual Interdependence
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The situation that exists when two or more groups need to depend on one another to accomplish a goal that is important to each of them.
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The six conditions for when contact reduces prejudice:
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--Mutual interdependence --Having a common goal --Equal status --A friendly, informal setting, where in-group and out-group members can interact on a one-to-one basis. --Multiple members of the out-group must be present so that the individual learns that they are typical of their group. --Social norms that promote and support equality among groups must be present.
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Jigsaw Classroom
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A classroom setting designed to reduce prejudice and raise the self-esteem of children by placing them in small, desegregated groups and making each child dependent on the other children in the group to learn the course material and do well in the class.
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