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Emotions
consist of patterns of physiological responses and species-typical behaviors/responses of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and, most importantly, conscious experience resulting from one's interpretations
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3 components of emotion
behavioral, autonomic, hormonal
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Behavioral
muscular movements that are appropriate to the situation that elicits them
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Autonomic
facilitate the behaviors and provide quick mobilization of energy for vigorous movement
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Hormonal
Hormonal responses reinforce the autonomic responses
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How to measure emotion
self report, behavioral observayion, physiological measures
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facial expression
Most important and observed nonverbal communication/ facial expressions can be suppressed but micro expressions are revealing
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emotional component
bodily, arousal, expressive behaviors, conscious experiences
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autonomic nervous system (ANS)
sympathetic/parasympathetic
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sympathetic
arousing, increases bodily functions
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Parasympathetic
calming, rest and digest
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How does arousal affect performance?
Performance peaks at lower levels of arousal for difficult tasks, and at higher levels for easy or well-learned tasks
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James-Lange
emotion occurs when we become aware of our body's response to emotion-inducing stimuli (we observe our heart pounding and feel fear)
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Cannon-Bard Theory
physiological response to an emotion-inducing stimulus occurs at the same time as our subjective feeling of the emotion (one does not cause the other)
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Schachter-Singer Theory
Our experience of emotion depends on two factors: general arousal and a conscious cognitive label.
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Zajonc; LeDoux Theory
Some embodied responses happen instantly, without conscious appraisal.
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Lazarus Theory
Cognitive appraisal ("Is it dangerous or not?")—sometimes without ourawareness—defines emotion
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basic emotions
Happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, shame, anger, contempt, surprise
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social psychology
study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
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components of social psychology
social thinking, social influence, social relations
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correlation between attitudes and behaviors
Attitudes play little or no role in guiding behavior (Wicker, 1969). Attitudes are just verbal habits that only influence what people say.
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Power of Individuals
The power of social influence is enormous, but so is the power of the individual.
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Attrubution theory
we have a tendency to give causal explanations for someoneʼs behavior•by crediting either the situation or the personʼs disposition
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dispositional/personal attributions
Internal or dispositional attributions are based on an individual's perceived stable characteristics - attitudes, personality traits, or abilities
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situational attribution
explanations based on the current situation and events
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Tendency to overestimate the impact of personal disposition and underestimate the impact of situations in analyzing others' behavior
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The actor-observer effect
We make situational attributions for our own behaviors and dispositional ones for the behavior of others
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self-serving biases
attributions that we adopt to maximize credit for success and minimize blame for failure
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Self-handicapping strategies
intentionally put themselves at a disadvantage to provide an excuse for failure
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attitude
belief and feeling that predisposes a person to respond in a particular way to objects, other people, and events
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When do attitudes predict behavior?
When outside influences are minimal, attitude is specific to the behavior, we are made aware of our attitude
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Foot-in-theDoor phenomenon
the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request
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cognitive dissonance
\-an individual holds contradictory attitudes on an issue

\- has exhibited behavior that is inconsistent with an expressed attitude
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How does behavior affect attitude in wartime?
When evil behavior occurs we tend to justify it as right
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How does behavior affect attitude in peacetime?
Moral action affects moral thinking
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Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip Zimbardo's study of the effect of roles on behavior. Participants were randomly assigned to play either prisoners or guards in a mock prison. The study was ended early because of the "guards'" role-induced cruelty.
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Conformity
Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
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normative social influence
Influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval
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informational social influence
Influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality
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suggestibility
adjusting our behavior or thinking toward some group standard
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Asch Study
subjects conformed to group opinion about 1/3 of the time
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Conditions that strengthen conformity
1\. One is made to feel incompetent or insecure

2\. The group has at least 3 people

3\. The group is unanimous

4\. One admires the group's status and attractiveness

5\. One has no prior commitment to a response

6\. The group observes one's behavior

7\. One's culture strongly encourages respect for a social standard
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Obedience
\-People comply to social pressures

\-How would they respond to outright command
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Milgram Experiment
obedience; electrical shocks to incorrect answers; learners were paid actors;80% continued giving shocks after the learner screamed
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Why did people continue Milgram Experiment?
•Afraid experimenter would be disappointed/hurt

•Situation was ambiguous & experimenter seemed like a legitumate source to listen to

•Self-justification
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Milgram's Conclusion
The most fundamental lesson of our study is that ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.
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What Is a Group?
•2 or more people

•interact with and influence one another

•perceive one another as "us"
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social facilitation
stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others/worse performances on un-mastered tasks or complex tasks
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social loafing
The tendency of an individual in a group to exert less effort toward attaining a common goal than when tested individually
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Deindividuation
•the process of losing one's sense of personal identity, which makes it easier to behave in ways inconsistent with one's normal values

•loss of self-awareness

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When is deindividuation most likely to occur?
1\. Physical anonymity

2\. Group size

3\. Arousing and distracting activities
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group polarization
•Group discussions with like-minded others strengthen members' prevailing beliefs and attitudes
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Groupthink
•People are driven by a desire for harmony within a decision-making group, with this desire overriding realistic appraisal of alternatives
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•Individual power
The power of the individual and the power of the situation interact
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stereotype
A generalized belief about a group of people
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stereotype threat
when facing a negative stereotype, the fear that you will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype creates anxiety and lessens performance
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prejudice
unjustifiable (usually negative) attitude toward a group (its members)/supported by stereotypes/Works at both conscious and (more) unconscious level
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Why does prejudice arise?
•social inequalities

•social divisions

•emotional scapegoating
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ingroup
people with whom one shares a common identity
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outgroup
perceived as different from one's ingroup
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Ingroup bias
tendency to favor one's own group
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interpersonal attraction
liking or having the desire for a relationship with another person
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factors of interpersonal attraction
\-Physical attractiveness

\-Proximity: physical or geographical nearness

\-Similarity (or complementary)

\-Reciprocity of liking: tendency of people to like other people who like them in return
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mere exposure effect
repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases their attraction
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aggression
Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy
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indirect aggression
Attempt to hurt another without obvious face to face contact
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direct aggression
Intended to hurt someone in their face
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emotional
Hurtful behavior stemming from anger
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Instrumental Aggression
Hurting another to accomplish another non aggressive goal
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biological influences on aggression
•genetic (twin studies, Y chromosome)

•neural (limbic system-amygdala)

•biochemical (testosterone)
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Psychological factors
•dealing with aversive events

•learning aggression is rewarding

•observing models of aggression

•acquiring social scripts
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altruism
prosocial behavior that is done with no expectation of reward and may involve the risk of harm to oneself
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Reciprocal Altruism
to help others with the understanding that they should in turn help us
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bystander effect
the effect that the presence of other people has on the decision to help or not help
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diffusion of responsibility
a person fails to take responsibility for action or for inaction because of the presence of other people who are seen to share the responsibility
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How can you help increase helping?
Reduce ambiguity/Cry for help/Appoint someone
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Kitty Genovese
woman whose murder in front of witnesses led to research on bystander effect
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Personality
individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
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Perspectives on Personality
psychodynamic, humanistic, trait, social-cognitive
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Freud's theory of personality
Psychodynamic theories of personality view behavior as a dynamic interaction between the conscious and unconscious mind
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id
a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
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Superego
part of the personality that acts as a moral center
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ego
the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality
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conscious (ego)
• Awareness

• Rational

• Goal-directed thoughts
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Unconcious (Id)
• Reservoir of unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories

• Ugly contents of unconscious are kept hidden by repression
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psychosexual stages
the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
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Oedipus complex
according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
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Electra complex
Conflict during phallic stage in which girls supposedly love their fathers romantically and want to eliminate their mothers as rivals
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Repression
banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness, "motivated forgetting"
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Regression
retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, "juvenile behavior"
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reaction formation
converts thoughts or feelings into opposite ones
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Denial
refuses to acknowledge a problem
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Projection
disguises own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
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Rationalization
offers self-justifying explanations instead of real, more threatening unconscious reasons for actions, "making excuses"
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Displacement
diverts sexual/ aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening one, "safer outlet"
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Sublimation
channels sexual/aggressive energies into socially acceptable behaviors
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free association (psychoanalysis)
\-leads to painful, embarrassing memories

\- once release or reach "catharsis" the patient feels better
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dream analysis
interpreting manifest and latent contents of dreams
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Alfred Adler
Neo-Freudian; introduced concept of "inferiority complex"
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Karen Horney
Neo-Freudian; offered feminist critique of Freud's theory