Quiz 5 Social Psych

Hostile aggression

• hurting someone for the sake of hurting them

Instrumental Aggression

 hurting someone to accomplish another goal

Physical Aggression

• hurting someone’s body

Social Aggression

insults, threats, gossip, and social exclusion

Catharsis

seeking appropriate release of frustration

Relative Deprivation

• Social comparisons result in result in frustration aggression due to perceived inequality of access to desired resources 

Social Learning Theory

•  we learn social behavior by observing and imitating and by being reinforced and punished 

Displacement Theory

• Frustration aggression is redirected from the source of frustration to another target, usually a safer or more socially acceptable one

Frustration Theory

• Anything that prevents an individual from achieving a goal, a accessing a resource, or contacting a reinforcer predisposes them, temporarily, to aggressive behavior (frustrations triggers readiness to aggress)

Desenstization

• reduction in emotional or physical reactivity to a stimulus that is achieved by repeated exposure to the stimulus and counterconditioning (video games)

The Brutish View

• Aggression in inborn, instinctive, adaptive, and inevitable 

Proximity

geographic/physical distance

Functional Distance

how often people cross paths

Ostracism

social exclusion

Need to belong

desire to bond with others in enduring relationships with ongoing positive interactions

Fatuous Love

prominence of passion and commitment but absence of intimacy
◦ Infatuation and attachment without emotional closeness or vulnerability

Romantic Love

prominence of intimacy and passion but absence of commitment
◦ Lovers are often idealized; problems in relationship lead to great distress/despair

Consummate Love

all components present
◦ Associated with high relationship satisfaction

Companionate Love

prominence of intimacy and commitment but absence of passion
◦ Platonic: Enduring affection despite an absence of desire to be physical

Ingratiation

the use of strategies, such as flattery, by which people seek to gain another’s favor

Matching Phenomenon

he tendency for people to choose a partner with roughly equivalent
attractiveness to their own

Reward Theory of attraction

we like those who reinforce our behavior and those that have been paired with reinforcers in the past

physical-attractiveness stereotype

Preconceived perception that attractive people possess socially
desirable traits due to their appearance

fearful attatchment style

tendency to doubt the worthiness and competence of both self and others

dismissive attachment style

tendency to view oneself as worthy of love and competent at it while viewing others as untrustworthy or undependable in relationships

preoccupied attatchment style

tendency to doubt one’s worthiness and competence, accompanied by belief that others are both worthy and competent

secure attatchment style

belief in the worthiness and competence of self and others

defensiveness

response to questions/criticisms that dodge accountability, allow one to play the victim, or get the perceived attacker to back off

contempt

assumption of moral superiority over your partner

stonewalling

withdrawing from interaction and avoidance of contact/conflict

criticism

ad hominem attacks of your partner’s actions, personality, and/or character