Exam 22: Altruism and Antisocial Behaviour

Terror management theory (TMT) is an existential psychological theory that proposes that much human behaviour is motivated by a need to manage or reduce the terror associated with one's own mortality.

The general term used when an individual or group carries out an act that is intended to harm another individual or group is known as

The social psychological term to describe non-harmonious relations among groups is

The deliberate attempt to exterminate an entire people, which is often present in intergroup conflicts, is called

The basic idea behind the theory of inclusive fitness regarding altruism is that the tendency evolved under conditions where altruism was expected to be reciprocated.

The anxiety we perceive when we become aware of the conflict between our behaviour and our attitudes is called

Intergroup conflict accounts for much large-scale aggression, characterised by _________and ______.

The tendency of people to be less likely to help strangers in need if there are other people present at the scene is called the

The Robber's Cave experiment is an excellent example of some solutions to our tendency to form in-group biases. Describe the experiment and also how the results fit with Allport's intergroup contact theory.

Instrumental aggression is when the ultimate purpose of aggression is harming the victim.

This is the tendency to favour and extend loyalty to members of one's own group over members of other groups.

The Stanford Prison study was constructed to examine the influence of these implicit rules for behaving in certain situations.

Deindividuation involves an increase in self-awareness or personal identity within a group, leading to increased feelings of anonymity and reduced concern for how one's behaviour will be evaluated by others.

In the Kitty Genovese investigation, it was later found that no one watched anything for anywhere near as long as half an hour. The first attack lasted only a few moments.

The theory of reciprocal altruism proposes that psychological attributes that motivate altruism towards non-kin will only evolve under conditions where there is some expectation that altruistic acts will be reciprocated.

Explain the nature of aggression, including its key characteristics and the distinction between aggression and violence and between hostile and instrumental aggression.

Competence and warmth are two dimensions of

The tendency toward in-group bias is so strong that researchers can create artificial groups by randomly assigning people to two categories by tossing a coin.

Berkowitz's reformulated theory stresses the power of cognitive associations to produce anger and subsequent aggression, it is sometimes called the

According to Cuddy et al (2007) both _________and negative stereotyping may coexist, this form of cognitive bias is known as ______.