Altruism is a behavior that increases another person’s welfare, especially when the behavior doesn’t provide a direct reward to the person performing it. The difference between regular helping and real altruism lies in:

Bandura’s studies showed that, when adults acted aggressively toward a doll, children would exhibit the same behaviors. These studies exemplified a social learning process called:

Bill is a person with depression. He tends to have a negative attribution style, which means that he explains negative events by referring to _________, ________, and ______ qualities.

Jacque is participating in a peaceful protest. However, external interference from other groups (like counter-protestors) can make these protests out of hand. Jacque ends up getting lost in the crowd and fighting for no real reason. Jacque is experiencing:

The part of the brain that is responsible for controlling aggression and other higher-level cognitive functioning is the:

Best Buy is having a great sale on a TV- the price seems too good to be true! When you go to the store to take advantage of the deal, the salesperson says that they’re already sold out of that TV, but they have another model at a higher price. Because you’re already at the store, you decide to just buy the more expensive TV. In this situation, you’ve just fallen victim to:

Leo plays soccer. When Leo has a fantastic game, he sees himself as a really great player with remarkable skills, but when Leo has a bad game, he sees his failures as dependent on the situation. He tends to attribute his successes to himself, and his setbacks to others and the situation, which means that Leo is engaging in a:

Think back to an in-class example where I asked half the class to write about dental pain, and half the class to write about mortality. After that writing exercise, the people who wrote about mortality in the first place completed more word fragments in a way that was related to death (e.g., given the letters S K _ _ L, people wrote “skull” instead of “skill). This is an example of:

Please match the constructs with Affect, Behavior, or Cognition:   Prejudice

Greg is discussing politics with their friends. Most of Greg’s friends are pretty right-leaning, while Greg is pretty left-leaning. After the discussion, everyone in the discussion finds themselves even more left or right in their political beliefs- their attitudes have become more extreme than they were before the group started discussing the topic. This is a case of: