Changing our Minds | Race & Society | Meet your Mate | Social Behavior Miscellanious | Some of Society |
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What is an Attitude
This is a positive or negative evaluation of a person, idea, or object.
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What is a Stereotype
This belief about another group may be positive or negative.
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What is "choosy" women, and "competitive" men
Evolution favored these kinds of women to survive, and these kinds of men to survive.
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What is altruism
This is the term we use to describe when someone voluntarily helps someone else - even when the costs outweigh the benefits
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What is Social Roles
These are expected patterns of behavior for a specific person in a specific situation. That children should be "seen and not heard" in the company of adults is an example of this.
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What is Persuasion
We utilize things like credibility, attractiveness, subtlety, sidedness, or the foot in the door technique to use this and change attitudes.
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What is Ageism
This form of prejudice involves a negative belief about those who are older or younger than yourself.
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What is Health and fertility.
Cross cultural attractiveness signals these.
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What is Natural Selection
This phenomenon involves the process of gradual change within a species in response to environmental demands - without creating a new species line.
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What is Mores
These are norms that embody the morals of a society - e.g. don't cut in the line!
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What are the Solomon Asch Conformity studies
Even though I know the correct answer, I will tend to go with the group - despite them saying the wrong answer!
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What is Institutionalized Racism
The cycle of poor housing opportunities, lowered tax contributions to education, poorer educational opportunities, and links to increased likelihood for legal problems is an example of this.
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What is Mate guarding
This phenomenon that arises in relationships is intended to prevent mate poaching, cuckolding, or other forms of infidelity.
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What is Mere Exposure effect
I like this brand of soda because I see advertisements for it all the time, not because it actually tastes good! (phenomenon is named the...)
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What are Folkways
the traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
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What is Cognitive Dissonance
Psychological discomfort that arises when our internal attitudes are inconsistent with our outward behaviors
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What are Education, exposure, experience
Implicit bias can be reduced or mediated by these things.
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What is More chances for offspring and genetic success.
Short term mating promotes this for men.
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Reciprocal altruism promotes the overall survival of the species, in addition to regulating the behavior of individual members.
DAILY DOUBLE: What is the evolutionary explanation for why humans are altruistic?
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What is Culture shock
This arises from unanticipated differences between your culture of origin and those of the culture you move to; it involves feelings of disorientation and frustration.
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What are changing our behavior and changing our cognition.
We can resolve cognitive dissonance through one of these two processes.
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What is Stereotype threat
This phenomenon is what happens when an individual from a marginalized group enters a situation in which they fear activating a stereotypical or prejudiced belief about their group.
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What are kindness, dependability, similarity, health, financial stability
From an evolutionary perspective, women are more likely to favor these traits for long-term mate selection.
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What is Social Exchange Theory
This theory says that social behavior is the result of an exchange process. The purpose of this exchange is to maximize benefits and minimize costs.
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What is Ethnocentrism
The belief that our culture is better, that others are doing it wrong, and when we compare other's culture against our own.
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