PSYC 261 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chameleon, Social Influence, Suggestibility
16 Oct 2016
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Focus on tasks and connections with large groups. Respond to stress with fight or flight response. I. e. expressiveness, punctuality, rule-breaking, personal space (buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies) Natural selection = process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce in particular environments are passed to ensuing generations. Evolutionary psychology = the study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection. Culture = enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Norms = standards for accepted and expected behavior. Gender = characteristics, whether biological or socially influenced, by which people define male and female. As humans age, they become more androgynous (mixing both masculine and feminine characteristics) Gender role = set of behavior expectations (norms) for males and females. Conformity: a change in behavior or belief as the result of real or imagined group pressure.
