APEX Psychology Exam (5) Flashcards

The reason someone gives to explain his or her own behavior or experiences, or the behavior or experiences of others

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<p>Holding two attitudes that disagree with each other</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to look for information that agrees with our opinions and therefore strengthens our bias</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When many people have the same response to a situation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a person acts or responds the same whenever a certain situation is present</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Citing a person's qualities as the reasons for his or her actions or experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a person acts differently from other people in the same situation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional influences when judging other people's behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to judge a person by what group he or she is in</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How people think about themselves, their roles, and other people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The knowledge that a person has about him- or herself</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How a person evaluates his or her ability to perform certain tasks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How someone feels about his or her self-knowledge</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency for people to meet expectations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Citing a person's situation as the reason for his or her actions or experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taking on the attitudes or actions of others because of real or imagined pressure</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Losing self-awareness and feeling anonymous when in a group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency for extreme positions to arise when people are discussing an issue</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to ignore opposing views in order to maintain group harmony</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a person feels inclined to agree with others because he or she thinks others have better information or understand the situation better</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Influence from people who have a view that is different from most other people's</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a person feels inclined to agree with others because he or she wants to be accepted or does not want to cause trouble</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Following the orders of an authority figure</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Performing better in front of people than when alone</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Performing worse in front of people than when alone</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Actions that benefit others without any apparent benefit to oneself</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An element of love marked by the desire to be near a person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An element of love marked by willingness to sacrifice for that person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A feeling of caring that comes from one's life entwining with another's.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A love that includes intimacy, passion, and commitment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Characterized by positive feelings toward another person, empathy, trust, and a tendency to want to help the other</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A love with high passion but low intimacy and commitment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An element of love marked by the desire to share inner thoughts and feelings with that person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A strong and consistent, positive feeling for another person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to like a person the more you are around him or her</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An intense biological arousal and longing for a person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior that benefits other people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Being physically near another person so that friendship becomes more likely</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two people liking each other approximately equally</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A love that contains intimacy and passion but no commitment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sharing similar interests and values with another person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Robert Sternberg's theory of love, as combinations of different levels of intimacy, passion, and commitment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person's ability to help others achieve their goals or to find opportunities that they value</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Direct contact between hostile groups will reduce prejudice when the groups are fairly equal in status and there is personal interaction between group members in cooperative activities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An unjustifiably negative or harmful behavior toward a group or its members</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to favor and feel positively toward one's own social group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency for people within a group to trust, help, and understand each other</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conflict between groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Activities that require students to depend on each other in order for all students to reach a desired goal</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to put down other groups and treat them unfairly</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to think that members of the out-group are all the same while failing to see them as individuals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An unjustifiably hostile or negative attitude toward a group or its individual members</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A study by Muzafer Sherif in 1954 at Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma in which the researchers created and then resolved conflict between groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to find a group on which to blame problems in order to divert attention away from one's own failings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A study conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971 in which students played the roles of prisoners and guards</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To force one or more stereotypes onto a person</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Goals shared by different groups that make a conflict between the two groups seem less important</p> Signup and view all the answers