ANSWERS 2025/2026 ALL RATED A+
✔✔Ingroup - ✔✔"Us"—people with whom we share a common identity.
✔✔Outgroup - ✔✔"Them"—those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup.
✔✔Ingroup Bias - ✔✔the tendency to favor our own group.
✔✔Scapegoat Theory - ✔✔the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by
providing someone to blame.
✔✔Other-Race Effect - ✔✔the tendency to recall faces of one's own race more
accurately than faces of other races. Also called the cross-race effect and the own-race
bias
✔✔Just-World Phenomenon - ✔✔the tendency for people to believe the world is just
and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
✔✔Aggression - ✔✔physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone.
✔✔Frustration-Aggression Principle - ✔✔the principle that frustration—the blocking of
an attempt to achieve some goal—creates anger, which can generate aggression.
✔✔Mere Exposure Effect - ✔✔the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli
increases liking of them.
✔✔Passionate Love - ✔✔an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another,
usually present at the beginning of a love relationship.
✔✔Companionate Love - ✔✔the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with
whom our lives are intertwined.
✔✔Equity - ✔✔a condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to
what they give to it.
✔✔Self-Disclosure - ✔✔revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others.
✔✔Altruism - ✔✔unselfish regard for the welfare of others.
✔✔Bystander Effect - ✔✔the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give
aid if other bystanders are present.