Modules 22-31
1948614881 | Prejudice | A preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members | 0 | |
1948614882 | Stereotype | A generalized belief about a group of people | 1 | |
1948614883 | Discrimination | An unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group. | 2 | |
1948614884 | Racism | An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race | 3 | |
1948614885 | Sexism | Attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles. | 4 | |
1948614886 | ethnocentric | Believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups | 5 | |
1948614887 | Authoritarian Personality | A personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status | 6 | |
1948614888 | Realistic group conflict theory | The theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources | 7 | |
1948614889 | social identity | The "we" aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships. | 8 | |
1948614890 | ingroup | "Us" - people with whom one shares a common identity | 9 | |
1948614891 | outgroup | "THEM"- those perceived as different or apart from ones ingroup | 10 | |
1948614892 | ingroup bias | The tendency to favor one's own group | 11 | |
1948614893 | terror management | A theory which deals with how we cope with the threat of death by defending our world view of values and beliefs | 12 | |
1948614894 | outgroup homogeneity effect | Perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus "they are alike; we are diverse." | 13 | |
1948614895 | own-race bias | the tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race | 14 | |
1948614896 | just-world phenomenon | The tendency of people to believe the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get | 15 | |
1948614897 | subtyping | accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as "exceptions to the rule" | 16 | |
1948614898 | subgrouping | accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group | 17 | |
1948614899 | sterotype threat | A disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. Unlike self-fulfilling prophecies that hammer one's reputation into one's self-concept, stereotype threat situations have immediate effects. | 18 | |
1948614900 | aggression | Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy. | 19 | |
1948614901 | intrumental aggression | aggression to achieve some goal (aggression in sports) | 20 | |
1948614902 | frustration | Blocking of a goal-directed behavior | 21 | |
1948614903 | displacement | Directing anger toward someone or onto another, less threatening (safer) substitute. | 22 | |
1948614904 | social learning theory | An approach that emphasizes the role of modeling, or observational learning, in the development of behavior. | 23 | |
1948614905 | catharsis | ... | 24 | |
1948614906 | prosocial behavior | Positive, constructive, helpful behavior | 25 | |
1948614907 | proximity | Geographic nearness is a powerfully predicts liking | 26 | |
1948614908 | mere-exposure effect | The tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more or rated more positively after the rater has been repeatedly exposed to them. | 27 | |
1948614909 | matching phenomenon | The tendency for men and women to choose as partners those who are a "good match" in attractiveness and other traits. | 28 | |
1948614910 | physical-attractiveness sterotype | what is attractive is good | 29 | |
1948614911 | complementarity | people complete each other | 30 | |
1948614912 | need to belong | motivation to bond and feel needed | 31 | |
1948614913 | passionate love | A state of intesnse longing for union with another. Passionate lovers are absorebed in each other, feel ecstatic at attaining their partner's love, and are disconsolate on losing it | 32 | |
1948614914 | two-factor theory of emotion | Arousal x Its label = Emotion | 33 | |
1948614915 | companionate love | - the affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwine | 34 | |
1948614916 | equity | get out what they put in | 35 | |
1948614917 | self-disclosure | Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others | 36 | |
1948614918 | disclosure reciprocity | the tendency for one person's intimacy of self-disclosure to match that of a conversational partner | 37 | |
1948614919 | social trap | a situation in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursuing their self-interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior | 38 | |
1948614920 | non-zero-sum games | games in which outcomes need not sum to zero. With cooperation, both can win; with competition, both can lose | 39 | |
1948614921 | mirror-image perception | viewing each other as the bad guy and themselves as right | 40 | |
1951266593 | equal-status contact | Contact on an equal basis. Just as a relationship between people of unequal status breeds attitudes consistent with their relationship, so do relationships between those of equal status. Thus, to reduce prejudice, interracial contact should be between persons equal in status. | 41 | |
1951266594 | superordinate goal | Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation. | 42 | |
1951266595 | mediation | A third-party conflict resolution process that involves counseling parties while maintaining control over both process and outcome | 43 | |
1951266596 | arbitration | Agreement through contract by the parties to resolve dispute through a neutral decision maker | 44 | |
1951266597 | integrative agreements | win-win agreements that reconcile both parties' interests to their mutual benefit | 45 | |
1951266598 | GRIT | Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension-Reduction - a strategy designed to decrease international tensions | 46 | |
1951266599 | altruisum | selflessness | 47 | |
1951266600 | social-exchange theory | the theory that human interactions are transactions that aim to maximize one's rewards and minimize one's costs | 48 | |
1951266601 | reciprocity norm | An expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them | 49 | |
1951266602 | social-responsibility norm | An expectation that people will help those needing help | 50 | |
1951266603 | bystander effect | the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present | 51 | |
1951266604 | adaptation-level phenomenon | to adapt to a given level of stimulation and to notice/react to changes from that level | 52 |