Groups
Attraction & Relationships
Helping
Aggression
Applied
100
Reduction in individual output/effort on easy tasks when contributions are pooled.
What is social loafing?
100
Perspective arguing that mate selection favors the conception, birth, and survival of their offspring.
What is the Evolutionary perspective?
100
Actions intended to benefit others
What is pro-social behavior?
100
Inflicting harm in order to obtain something of value
What is instrumental aggression?
100
When performance under high pressure is worse than performance under low pressure
What is choking?
200
When people in a group lose their sense of individuality and behave in ways that they otherwise wouldn’t.
What is Deindividuation?
200
The single best predictor of attraction
What is proximity?
200
The two components of empathy
What are affective (empathetic concern) and cognitive (perspective taking)?
200
Heat, Weapons, Media
What are things that have been linked to increased aggression?
200
Social Psychological concept that may lead innocent suspects to behave in predictable - vulnerable - ways?
What is Belief in a Just World (will also take Illusion of Transparency)?
300
The behavioral response elicited most easily and most quickly
What is the dominant response?
300
The Mita, Dermer, & Knight (1977) photograph study showed that people were more likely to like:
What is a photograph of a mirror image of themselves?
300
When the presence of others?inhibits helping.
What is the bystander effect?
300
Exposure to violence through the media makes real violence and aggression less shocking and less physiologically arousing
What is desensitization?
300
Social Psychological mechanism at work in the Stone et al. (1997) study showing that the way in which a sports task was framed affect Black and White participants' performance (on the same task).
What is stereotype-threat?
400
When the initial tendencies in thinking of group members becomes exaggerated via discussion.
What is group polarization?
400
The Social-Cultural theory of attraction argues that women seek high status/SES mean because
What is inability to reach economic power due to the glass ceiling?
400
The belief that others will or should intervene in.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
400
Aggression targeted at personal relationships and social statuses
What is indirect/relational aggression?
400
One Social Psychological mechanism that may cause people to believe false confessions?
What is {fundamental attribution error, truth bias, belief perseverance}?
500
The simple fact that others are around you causes you to be vigilant, increasing arousal.
What is the mere presence theory of social facilitation.
500
A secure, trusting, stable partnership.
What is companionate love?
500
As identified by Batson, the key to determining whether someone's motives for helping are altruistic or egoistic?
What is ability to escape the situation?
500
Author of the Bobo Doll's studies
Who is Albert Bandura?
500
Believing that vague descriptions that apply to practically everyone are accurate descriptions of your personality.
What is the Forer Affect?