Group Living & Social Influence
________ occurs when the presence of others improves our performance.
Social facilitation
________ are the inferences one makes about the causes of other people's behavior.
Attributions
The ________ component of an attitude includes the feelings or emotions associated with a belief.
cognitive
Albert Bandura's Bobo doll study demonstrated that ________.
children can learn aggression through exposure to aggressive models.
________ occurs when the presence of others causes individuals to relax their standards.
Social loafing
People make ________ attributions when they think that something outside the person, such as the environment or circumstances, is the cause of his or her behavior.
situational
The ________ component of attitude consists of the rational thoughts and beliefs that make up the attitude.
cognitive
In the context of social relations, ________ is action that is beneficial to others.
prosocial behavior
Society imposes rules about acceptable behavior that are known as social ________.
norms
Schemas function like lenses through which one filters his or her perceptions. This is true about what?
Schemas
The ________ component of an attitude includes the motive to act in a particular way toward the person or object of the attitude.
behavioral
People tend to be attracted to and partner with people of a similar level of attractiveness to themselves. This phenomenon is known as ________.
assortative mating
________ occurs when people adjust their behavior to what others are doing or to adhere to cultural norms.
Stereotype is a term used to oversimplify perspectives of people solely based on their ______.
group membership
Evolutionary pressures to preserve group membership favor ________.
in-group bias
Sexual strategy theory suggest that men and women often approach ______ _______.
relationships differently
________ is the type of conformity that occurs when people go along with the behavior of others in order to be accepted by the group.
Normative social influence
When a person shows positive feelings toward people in his or her own culture and negative feelings toward those in other cultures, the person is displaying ________.
in-group/out-group bias
________ is the feeling of discomfort caused by information that is at odds with one's conception of oneself as a reasonable and sensible person.
Cognitive dissonance
________ is an affection-based bond between infants and their primary caregivers that serves to protect infants from threats to their survival.
Attachment
Sometimes people go to great lengths to do what the group is doing, when it does not make sense, especially in groups engaged in decision-making. This phenomenon is called ________.
groupthink
A(n) ________ is a biased attitude toward a group of people or an individual member of a group based on unfair generalizations about what members of that group are like.
prejudice
________ is an attempt by a person or group to change our opinions, beliefs, or choices by explaining or arguing their position.
Persuasion
________ is a kind of conformity that occurs when people yield to the social pressure of an authority figure.
Obedience
Testosterone and serotonin are sets of hormones that are constantly related to high levels of ______.
aggression