Interacting with People | Controlling People | Understanding People |
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What is aggression?
Behavior with the purpose of harming another
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What is an informational influence?
Occurs when another person's behavior provides information about what is good or right
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What is stereotyping?
The process by which we draw inferences about others based on knowledge of the categories to which they belong.
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What is cooperation?
Two or more people acting together to gain mutual benefits
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What is conformity?
The tendency to do what others do simply because others are doing it
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What is social cognition?
The process by which people come to understand others.
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What is deindividuation?
The phenomenom that being in a group reduces ones awareness of his own values
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What is the door-in-the-face technique?
Ask for something big (refuse) then ask for what you really want (with the hopes they will accept)
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What is subtyping?
The process of creating a modification to a stereotype, rather than abandoning it altogether, when confronted with evidence that clearly disconfirms that stereotype
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What is group polarization?
The tendency for a group's initial leaning to get stronger over time
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What is normative influence?
One person's behavior is influenced by another person's behavior because the latter provides information about what is appropriate
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What are attributions?
Inferences about the causes of people's behavior
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What is reciprocal altruism?
Behavior that benefits others with the expectation that the benefits will be returned in the future
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What is systematic persuasion?
The process by which a attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to reason
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What is perceptual confirmation?
The tendency for observers to perceive what they expect to perceive
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