PY101 exam 3
compassionate love - correct answer ✔a type of romantic relationship that
includes strong commitment to supporting and caring for a partner
passionate love - correct answer ✔Type of romantic relationship that
includes intense longing and sexual desire
Bystander intervention effect - correct answer ✔The failure to offer help to
people in need
Alturism - correct answer ✔The act of providing help when it is needed with
no apparent reward for doing so
Prosocial - correct answer ✔Acting in ways that tend to benefit others
Frustration-aggression hypothesis - correct answer ✔The idea that the more
frustrated a person feels, the more likely the person is to act aggressively
Aggression - correct answer ✔Any behavior that involves the intention to
harm someone else
Obedience - correct answer ✔When a person's follows the orders of a
person of authority
Compliance - correct answer ✔The tendency to agree to do things requested
by others
, Social norms - correct answer ✔Expected standards of conduct, which
influence behavior
Conformity - correct answer ✔altering of your own behaviors and opinions to
match those of other people or to match other people's expectations
De individualation - correct answer ✔A state of reduced individuality reduced
self-awareness and reduced attention to personal standards; this
phenomenon may occur when people are part of a group
Social loafing - correct answer ✔Tendency for people to work less hard in a
group than when working alone
Social facilitation - correct answer ✔When the mere presence of others
improves performance
Peripheral route - correct answer ✔A method of persuasion that uses low
elaboration, where people minimally process the message. This method
usually results in development of weaker attitudes
Central route - correct answer ✔A method of persuasion that uses high
elaboration- where people pay attention to the arguments and consider all this
information in the message. This method usually results in development of
stronger attitudes.
Persuasion - correct answer ✔Active and conscious effort to change an
attitude through the transmission of a message
Cognitive dissonance - correct answer ✔An uncomfortable mental state due
to a contradiction between two attitudes or between an attitude and a behavior
compassionate love - correct answer ✔a type of romantic relationship that
includes strong commitment to supporting and caring for a partner
passionate love - correct answer ✔Type of romantic relationship that
includes intense longing and sexual desire
Bystander intervention effect - correct answer ✔The failure to offer help to
people in need
Alturism - correct answer ✔The act of providing help when it is needed with
no apparent reward for doing so
Prosocial - correct answer ✔Acting in ways that tend to benefit others
Frustration-aggression hypothesis - correct answer ✔The idea that the more
frustrated a person feels, the more likely the person is to act aggressively
Aggression - correct answer ✔Any behavior that involves the intention to
harm someone else
Obedience - correct answer ✔When a person's follows the orders of a
person of authority
Compliance - correct answer ✔The tendency to agree to do things requested
by others
, Social norms - correct answer ✔Expected standards of conduct, which
influence behavior
Conformity - correct answer ✔altering of your own behaviors and opinions to
match those of other people or to match other people's expectations
De individualation - correct answer ✔A state of reduced individuality reduced
self-awareness and reduced attention to personal standards; this
phenomenon may occur when people are part of a group
Social loafing - correct answer ✔Tendency for people to work less hard in a
group than when working alone
Social facilitation - correct answer ✔When the mere presence of others
improves performance
Peripheral route - correct answer ✔A method of persuasion that uses low
elaboration, where people minimally process the message. This method
usually results in development of weaker attitudes
Central route - correct answer ✔A method of persuasion that uses high
elaboration- where people pay attention to the arguments and consider all this
information in the message. This method usually results in development of
stronger attitudes.
Persuasion - correct answer ✔Active and conscious effort to change an
attitude through the transmission of a message
Cognitive dissonance - correct answer ✔An uncomfortable mental state due
to a contradiction between two attitudes or between an attitude and a behavior
