280: Psych Exam 3
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**ProcessLoss:WhenGroupInteractionsInhibitGoodProblemSolving
>LEADSTOSOCIALLOAFING
KinSelection:Onetenetofevolutionarypsychusedtoexplainwhy
peoplewillhelptheirbloodrelatives
Tit-for-Tat: Strategy to encourage cooperation by first acting cooperatively but then
responding the way your opponent did (cooperatively or competitively)
Altruism: often motivated by empathy this pro-social behavior describe the desire to help
another person, even if it involves some personal cost to the helper
CORFing (cutting off reflected Failure): Process of changing association between you
and an object is being evaluated negatively in order to enhance self presentation
Source Monitoring (Error): Process by which people mis-identify the source of their
memories
MoodProtection:Isen&Levin,thisconceptexplainswhypeopleinan
extremelygoodmoodwouldnotwanttohelpothers
Extreme --> Protection-->Don't Help
Moderate --> Maintenance --> Help
Extreme (bad) --> Don't Help (Don't care)
Public Good Dilemma: A social dilemma in which individuals must contribute a
common to pool of resources in order to maintain this set of resources that everyone can
access
Bystander Effect:
To prevent this effect from happening, you should yell at people as individuals
Self Perception Theory: We determine our self concept by observing our behaviors,, just
like we observe others' behaviors
Own Race Bias: Concept used to describe why people are generally better identifying
individuals of their own race
Pluristic/Diffusion of Responsibility
Social Impact: Suggest that the first added person makes difference, but adding more not
really
Social Loafing: Tendency for people to relax when in the presence of others and their
performance cannot be evaluated; do worse on simple tasks and better on complex tasks
Downward social comparison: Compare ourselves to people who are worse off than us:
leads to self enhancement
Equity: Distributive justice means that your inputs and outcomes are proportional to
another's inputs and outcomes
Psych 280: Exam 3
No threat condition: (unilateral, bilateral) Trucking Game- participant profited the most
(Deutsch and Krauss)