Love and attraction
What is the model for the types of love?
The Triangular Love Model
What is the Bystander Effect?
The Bystander Effect is when a person doesn't help a victim because they assume someone else will.
Define Stereotyping
The assumption all members of a group are or share similar traits
Define the primacy effect.
a cognitive bias where items presented at the beginning of a list or sequence are better remembered and carry more weight than those in the middle.
What is the most common form of manipulation? (Multiple acceptable answers)
Gasslighting & Love bombing & White knight
Define propinquity?
Propinquity: The tendency to live near and interact with like-minded people.
If you can, give me as accurate of a description as possible for Groupthink.
Groupthink is a type of decision making that is based on group cohesiveness, rather than logical processes and the reality of the situation.
Prejudice is an unjustified, *typically* negative attitude, emotion, or belief directed toward an individual or group based on characteristics like race, gender, religion, appearance, age, or other characteristics.
Name at least two traits or characteristics listed for Attraction-Similarity Hypothesis. Are these always factors?
Education, race, political views, age, religion, and physical attractiveness
No, they are not always factors.
What disorder leads to a severe need for the adoration and recognition of others?
Narcissistic personality disorder
Reciprocity: The natural tendency to be more open and warm to people who seem like us.
Name one of the characteristics of flawed decisions in Groupthink.
Feelings of Invulnerability
Groups belief that they are on the right side
Discrediting information contrary to the group's decision
Pressure of conformity
Stereotyping of members of the out-group
Give me an example of how stereotyping and prejudice can be harmful.
(Example)
Seeing a person of color and immediately assuming they are a criminal.
What are two tragedies that are associated with Groupthink
The Challenger disaster and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
What historical figure was known for using the manipulation method "Scapegoating" (pinning the blame on another source) to divert attention from their own actions? 1.5x points if you can give me an example.
Adolph Hitler
Bonus answer: Mein Kampf
What are the types of love on the Triangular Love Model? (Minimum of four must be included in answer)
Romantic Love, Companionate Love, Fatuous Love, Consummate Love, Infatuation, Empty Love, Liking.
What are all the ways people can be excluded from the Bystander Effect?
(Must answer at least 4. There are 7 total.)
Good mood, empathetic personality, belief in emergency, assuming responsibility, knowing what to do, familiarity, and similarity.
As a basic survival method, in what case would stereotyping and prejudice be useful?
(Example, doesn't have to be exact or close, just as long as they get the gist)
If you see someone stumbling around with a bottle in a bag, you might stereotype them as dangerous or unpredictable. Prejudice is what makes you walk to the other side of the street, which minimizes the chance for physical confrontation.
Define Bystander Effect
The Bystander Effect is when a person doesn't help a victim because they assume someone else will. This effect doesn't always apply, because factors like good mood, empathetic personality, belief of emergency, assuming responsibility, knowing what to do, familiarity, and similarity are all factors that apply to this effect.
DOUBLE POINTS!
What is the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy?
DOUBLE POINTS!
Sociopathy is not hereditary. It's only gained from either abuse or trauma in the developmental stages; they can feel small amounts of empathy but are prone to violent outbursts.
Psychopathy is a total lack of empathy, little guilt, and an inability to feel true empathy. They are also able to fake feeling these emotions with ease, allowing them to react normally without raising suspicion. This trait is inherited.
There are three unique attractors for each gender. What are they?
Men: Appearance, Youth, Good Health
Women: Social Status, Finances, Ambition
What are the four factors of Deindividualization?
Anonymity
Diffused responsibility
Large group size
Sensory overload
What experiment did Brain Games run on the Bystander Effect, and Stereotyping?
(Just has to be somewhat similar to this)
They had two actors, one played a drunk with a brown bag with a bottle in it, and the other played a businesswoman. Both pretended to faint in the street to see which would receive aid first, if at all.
What experiment did Lucians perform? What year?
He provided two groups with two different paragraphs about a man named “Jim,” one unfriendly and one friendly, and had them swap and describe their perception of Jim.
1957
What makes love bombing so dangerous? Both teams will answer within a two-minute time limit; whoever provides the best answer will be awarded the points.
Love bombing is dangerous because it is a calculated manipulation effect disguised as intense affection, designed to create a rapid emotional dependence and control before an abuser switches to devaluation and abuse.