Define Social Psychology
What is: The study of how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by our interactions with others
Name the difference between Love relationships and other individual relatioonships.
What is: Answers will vary.
Define a Group
What is: A collection of people who interact, share common goals, and influence how members think and act.
Define Stereotypes
What are: A set of assumptions about an identifiable group of people
Name the two (2) most basic types of love.
What are: passionate love and companionate love
Provide an example of diffusion of responsibility.
What is: Examples will vary
Give an example of the Primacy Effect.
What is: Answers will vary. Typically something involving neutral words being given new meaning from first impressions.
Name the three (3) components of love according to Zick Rubin?
What are: need, caring, and intimacy
Name the two types of functions that groups typically serve.
What are: Task functions and Social functions.
Provide an example of internal attribution and external attribution.
What is: Answers will vary.
A man cuts you off in traffic. You assume they're a jerk. That is internal attribution. He tells you his wife is in labor and thanks you for letting him ahead. External attribution.
According to the triangular theory of love, name the three basic parts that make up most relationships in some combination.
What are: Passion, Intimacy, and Commitment.
Name the three (3) factors that form group cohesiveness.
Name five (5) of the seven components behind how you choose your friends.
What are: Proximity, Reward Values, Physical Appearance, Approval, Similarity, Complementarity, and Mere Exposure.
Name the three factors that healthy adjustment to marriage seem rely on.
What are: Whether the couple’s needs are compatible, whether the couple’s images of themselves coincide with their images of each other, and whether they agree on what their roles in the marriage are.
Name the four (4) theorized factors behind aggression.
What are: Biological, cognitive, personality, and environmental factors.