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Person Perception |
the process of forming impressions of others |
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Can individuals accurately predict information from faces? |
yes, but cultural context is necessary to know what those judgements might mean in the real world |
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What is the "same race bias" |
individuals recognize their own race better than people of other races |
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Do judgements of attractiveness of the face based in similar parts for most groups? |
yes, this judgement is based on the eyes, nose, cheeks, chin, and smile (review pg. 370-371) |
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According to one popular study, what do males and females typically look for in a mate? |
females: value cues related to resource acquisition (more highly than males) Males: value reproductive capacity (more than females) Findings are universal |
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Mate poaching |
stealing someone else's mate Men more likely to do this, and to be a victim |
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Is love universal? |
Love is universal but it is valued differently in different cultures |
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differences in culture and sex |
there appears to be some universality in some norms regarding sex, but there are also important cultural differences (pg 373-374) |
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Do individualistic cultures rate love more or less essential to the establishment of marriage? |
more |
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Divorce rates correlate with the belief in the disappearance of what meant dissolution of marriage? |
disappearance of love |
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Difficulties in intercultural marriages |
pg 376-377 |
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Conformity |
yielding to real or imagined social pressure |
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Compliance |
yielding to social pressure in ones public behaviour, even though ones private beliefs may have not changed |
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Obedience |
compliance that occurs when people follow direct demands |
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What did Aschs study measure? |
Conformity (pg. 377) |
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What did Milgrams study measure? |
Compliance and Obedience (pg. 377) |
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Does conformity tend to be higher in individualistic or collectivist cultures? |
collectivist
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Cooperation |
peoples abilities to work together towards common goals |
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Do populations tend to demonstrate some willingness to administer punishment in response to unequal behaviour? |
yes |
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Social Capital |
interpersonal trust, civic engagement, and time spent with friends |
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Ingroups |
a type of social distinction,individuals with a shared history of experiences, and an antinciapted future that produce a sense of intimacy, familiarity and trust |
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Outgroups |
Individuals lacking a shared history of experiences, and an antinciapted future that produce a sense of intimacy, familiarity and trust |
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Group entitavity |
people perceive groups as real entities, and may be perceived as having real intentions and the capacity for planned actions |
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Infrahumanization |
the belief that others are less human, more like animals - perceptions associated with outgroups |