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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCH 1103 FINAL EXAM
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-Guarantee passing score -71 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Theory vs. Bem Self perception theory
Answer:
We are motivated toward consistency between attitudes and behavior &away from inconsistency VS.We make inferences about our attitudes by perceiving and examining our behavior & the context it occurs, which involve inducements to behave in certain way
Question 2: social identity theory
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theory that our social identities are a crucial part of our self image and a valuable source of positive feelings about ourselves. Improve self image- compare your ingroup with other outgroups
Question 3: Communicator
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Trustworthiness, expertise, power, attractiveness, likability and similarity are all credibility characteristics that help a communicator
Question 4: equity
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a feeling on the part of the individuals relationship is doing his or her own fair share
Question 5: investment model
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a model of long-term relationships that examines the ways that commitment, investment, and the availability of attractive alternative partners predict satisfaction and stability in relationships
Question 6: altruism
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unselfish interest in helping another person
Question 7: positive illusions
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positive views of the self that are not necessarily rooted in reality
Question 8: explicit racism
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person's conscious and openly shared attitude
Question 9: Cognitive Dissonance
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an individual's psychological discomfort caused by two inconsistent thoughts
Question 10: frustration
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blocking of an individuals attempts to reach a goal, triggers aggression
Question 11: Social Cognition
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Area of social psychology that explores how people select, interpret and remember and use social information
Question 12: Medium
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Technology
Question 13: frustration-aggression hypothesis
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frustration always leads to aggression; proved wrong because other things lead to aggression including but not limited to physical pain, personal insults, crowding and unpleasant events
Question 14: affectionate love
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Also called companionate love; love that occurs when individuals desire to have another person near and have a deep, caring affection for the person
Question 15: Who offers a causal explanation?
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observer
Question 16: Target
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Age and attitude strength
Question 17: social loafing
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Each person's tendency to exert less effort in a group because of reduced accountability for individual
effort: larger group, more loafing without detection
Question 18: social contagion
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Imitative behavior involving the spread of actions, emotions and ideas
Question 19: How does mood effect altruistic behavior?
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mood- happy people are more likely to help than unhappy people. However, helping people when you are in a bad mood might be a mood booster
Question 20: Socio-cultural factors of altruism
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everyone deserves fair treatment
- market economy- not taking advantage
- religion- golden rule-treat people the way you would like to be treated
Question 21: risky shift
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the tendency for a group decision to be riskier than the average decision made by the individual group members
Question 22: Attitudes
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our feelings opinions, and beliefs about people, objects and ideas
Question 23: Attribution
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The process by which we come to understand the causes of others behavior and form an impression of them as individuals
Question 24: informational social influences
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the influence other people have on us because we want to be right.
Question 25: Personal Perception
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Processes by which we use social stimuli to form impressions of each other
Question 26: What are the two main factors contributing to conformity
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- how confident we are in out independent judgement
- how well informed we are
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