Peer Pressure - answer✔✔SOCIAL INFLUENCES placed on an individual BY OTHER
INDIVIDUALS considered equal
Group Polarization - answer✔✔Tendency for GROUPS to make decisions that are MORE
EXTREME THAN INDIVIDUAL inclinations of group members
Groupthink - answer✔✔Tendency for groups to make decisions based on IDEAS THAT ARISE
WITHIN a group without considering outside ideas
Socialization - answer✔✔Process of DEVELOPING AND SPREADING NORMS, customs,
and beliefs
Foraging Behavior - answer✔✔SEARCHING for and exploiting FOOD resources
Impression Management - answer✔✔Behaviors intended to INFLUENCE THE PERCEPTIONS
OF OTHERS
Inclusive Fitness - answer✔✔A THEORY FOR EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;
Depends on # offspring, ability to support offspring, and ability of that offspring to support
others
Top-down Processing - answer✔✔CONCEPT DRIVEN or BIG PICTURE; memories and
expectations allow brain to quickly ID objects w/o analyzing specific parts; BIG PICTURE
TRICKLE DOWN
Bottom-up Processing - answer✔✔DATA DRIVEN or NEED ALL LITTLE PIECES TO
COME UP; brain combines individual stimuli before determining what object is
Gestalt Principles - answer✔✔Ways for the brain to INFER MISSING PARTS of a picture when
picture is incomplete
Kinesthetic Sense - answer✔✔Ability to tell WHERE one's BODY IS in space
Weber's Law - answer✔✔A theory of perception; to notice a difference, there is a CONSTANT
RATIO btw change stimulus magnitude and original stimulus magnitude
Sensory Adaptation - answer✔✔Ability of sensory receptors to REDUCE RESPONSE to stimuli
Signal Detection Theory - answer✔✔A theory of perception; INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL
CONTEXT both play role in perceiving stimuli
Short-term Memory - answer✔✔Thought of lasting a FEW SECONDS TO FEW MINUTES
Sensory Memory - answer✔✔Lasts AT MOST A SECOND, important in the filtering and
prioritization of all sensory input
Long-term Memory - answer✔✔Memory that is STORED FROM A FEW MINUTES TO A
LIFETIME
Working Memory - answer✔✔Holds all of the information that a person IS ACTIVELY USING
AT A CERTAIN TIME; combination of sensory, short and long-term memories to achieve a task
Cognitive Dissonance Theory - answer✔✔SIMULTANEOUS PRESENCE OF 2 OPPOSING
THOUGHTS; can lead to stress or change one's beliefs
Drive Reduction - answer✔✔Internal drives motivate people so that they ATTEMPT TO
REDUCE/ELIMINATE DRIVING FACTOR
Social Loafing - answer✔✔People exert LESS EFFORT to achieve a goal when WORKING IN
A GROUP
Incentive Theory - answer✔✔Individuals are MOTIVATED to action BY EXTERNAL GOALS
(such as $)
Operant Conditioning - answer✔✔Form of associative learning; REINFORCEMENT and
PUNISHMENT to change behaviors
Self-Serving Bias - answer✔✔Individuals will view personal SUCCESSES as SKILL and
FAILURES as BAD LUCK
Stereotype - answer✔✔ATTITUDES based on limited, SUPERFICIAL information about a
person or group
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - answer✔✔Stereotype sets expectations for a group that CREATE
CONDITIONS FOR CONFIRMATION of said sterotype
Fundamental Attribution Error - answer✔✔Bias toward making DISPOSITIONAL
ATTRIBUTIONS rather than situational attributions WHEN LOOKING AT OTHERS
Indirect Therapy - answer✔✔Enables FAMILY MEMBERS to HELP person needing treatment;
note contrast to direct therapy
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