Communication
Who uses report talk?
Males
The most powerful contributor to attachment according to Harlow
Contact comfort
The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.
Group Polarisation
The extent to which the community/individual is able to ascertain the likelihood of an event occurring.
Predictability
Refers to ideas that use the language and ideas of psychology, and claim the ideas are based on science, however the claims have not been found as a result of research following the careful steps of the scientific method.
Non-scientific
Focuses on interdependence, establishing connections and relationships, and negotiating differences
Rapport talk
Babies form an attachment to one figure; usually the mother; This is innate and this relationship is more important than others
Monotropy
The sense of discomfort we feel when we have conflicting thoughts, attitudes and behaviours.
Cognitive Dissonance
The positive changes experienced as a result of the cognitive and emotional effort made to deal with challenging circumstances.
Post Traumatic Growth
A participant’s involvement in and results from an experiment cannot be disclosed to anyone unless written consent has been obtained
Confidentiality
When people understand a message and respond favourably to it, they are likely to be persuaded.
Nature of communication
A lose-lose solution where compromises are made
Distributive
Is this behaviour unique to this particular situation
Distinctiveness
A sense of mattering, of making a difference to a group and of the group mattering to its members.
Influence
Those extraneous variables whose influence has been removed (or at least diminished) from the research via sampling, procedure etc
Controlled variables
Complex, precise sentence, meaning is clear from the words spoken, many descriptive words used, includes discussion about past and future events and used to discuss abstract ideas
Elaborated Code
Involves parties that have some shared interests but also some opposed interests talking to each other trying to reach an agreement
Negotiation
Conforming because the individual respects the group and believes they have more knowledge than them
Informational Influence
The definitive element of Sense of Community?
Shared Emotional Connection
The participants do not know whether they’re in the experimental or control group
Single Blind Study
The cultural and social aspects of language/way/manner in which people share information through language.
Communication style
The interaction that Ainsworth was most interested in when determining the type of attachment a child had.
Reaction to reunion
We follow the orders of others; allowing them to control our actions and pass responsibility for our actions onto them
Agentic
One way someone with PTSD may persistently re-experience the traumatic event.
–Intrusive thoughts
–Nightmares
–Flashbacks
–Emotional distress after exposure to traumatic reminders
–Physical reactivity after exposure to traumatic reminders
An index of how much a typical score differs from the mean of a group of scores by taking into account each score in a data set.
Standard deviation