Mcat Behavioral Sciences: Social Behavior Flashcards

Sharing fears, thought, goals, and personal characteristics with others and being met with empathy.

We like people who we think like us.

Being physically close someone increases friendship.

Occurs when a child's caregiver is CONSISTENT. The child will show strong preference for their caregiver.

Occurs when a child's caregiver has LITTLE OR NO RESPONSE to their child. The child will show no preference between the caregiver and strangers.

Occurs when a child's caregiver has an INCONSISTENT response to their child. Child becomes distressed when absent but ambivalent when present.

Occurs when a caregiver is ABUSIVE. The child shows no clear pattern of behavior in response to their caregiver's presence.

An exclusive mating relationship between two individuals.

Consists of one person having multiple exclusive mating relationships.

A male having multiple female partners.

A female having multiple male partners.

Mating with partners without exclusivity.

The selection of a mate based on attraction and traits.

A form of helping behavior with the intent to benefit someone else at some cost to oneself.

Attempts to explain decision making between individuals as if they are participating in a game.

A measure of an organism's reproductive success (induces mating, supporting, and nurturing offspring and their offspring).

The way by which we generate impression about people in our social environment. Contains: 1)Perceiver 2)Target 3)Situation

States that people make assumptions about how different types of people, their traits, and behavior are related.

Refers to when first impressions are more important than subsequent impressions.

Refers to when the most recent impression we have about an individual is most important in forming our impression about them.

The tendency to organize the perception of others based on traits and personal characteristics that matter to the perceiver.

When judgments of an individual's character can be affected by the overall impression of the individual.

The tendency of individuals to believe that GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE and BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE.

Refers to the fact that individuals will view their own successes as being based on internal factors while viewing their failures as externally based.

Refers to the tendency of individuals to infer the causes of other people's behavior.

Causes that relate to the FEATURES of the person who's behavior is considered.

Causes that are related to features of the SURROUNDINGS or SOCIAL CONTEXT.

The bias towards making dispositional attributions rather than situational attributions in regard to the actions of others.

Describes attributions made by observing the intentional (especially unexpected) behaviors caused by another person.

Occurs when individuals must make judgments that are complex but instead substitute a simpler solution or heuristic.

When stereotypes create conditions that are conducive to their confirmation.

Concern or anxiety about confirming a negative stereotype.

An irrational positive or negative attitude toward a person, group, or thing prior to an actual experience.

The practice of making judgments about other cultures based on the values of one's own culture.

Refers to the recognition that social groups and cultures should be studied relative to there own terms.