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gives them more optimal range to check on patients. |
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most the time we litter because we see others have littered in that area as well. However, if the area is clean and kept that way we also will too, and if someone picks up their garbage we will too. |
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the belief that despite our efforts we are unable to control what happens to us. |
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the subjective feeling that that there are too many people in a given space. |
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the tendency to stake out an area and a willingness to defend that are from intruders. |
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sensory surroundings, including temperature, odor, and sound |
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the sense people have about the predictability or controllability of their situation |
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an area with invisible boundaries that surrounds us. |
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when the amount of information to be processed exceeds the individual’s capacity to sort out what is relevant from what is not. |
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a technique for effecting behavior change by confronting people with the inconsistency between their attitudes and their behavior. |
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aggression is any behavior intended to harm another person who is motivated to avoid the harm. Direct is behavior that intentionally harms another person who is physically present’ behavior that intentionally harms another person who is physically absent. |
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Hostile vs. Instrumental Aggression |
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: Hostile (reactive) aggression- aggression against another person with intent to do physical or mental harm; the goal or reinforcement is pain or suffering on the victim. It is always accompanied by anger. Whereas Instrumental aggression-a form of aggression against another person in which the aggression is used as a means of securing some reward or to achieve an external goal such as a victory, unlike hostile aggression harm to others is incidental and is not the perceived goal. |
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Frustration‐Aggression Theory |
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anytime something blocks the attainment of a goal aggression occurs. However, F-A not always happens; there is little evidence for catharsis. |
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refers to an object that is associated with aggressive responses and whose mere presence can increase the probability of aggression. |
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the increase in aggression that occurs as a result of the mere presence of a weapon. |
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Self‐esteem and aggression |
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low self-esteem is related to aggression |
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domestic violence that occurs within the home or family, between people who have a close relationship with each other. |
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a society that places high values on individual respect, strength and virtue and accepts and justifies violent action in response to threats to one’s honor. |
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being near someone on a regular basis. |
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being prevented by others from forming or keeping a social bond with them; the opposite of acceptance. Loneliness- the painful feelings of wanting more human contact or connection than you have. |
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a situation in which one person loves another but the other does not return that love. |
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persisting in romantic courtships, or other behaviors that frighten and harass the rejecter in a relationship. |
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anything that draws two or more people together, making them want to be together and possibly to form a lasting relationship. |
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refers to people's expectations about the level of rewards and punishments they are likely to receive in a particular relationship to understand social behavior by analyzing the costs and benefits of interacting with each other; it assumes that sex is a resource that women have and men want. |
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theory that uses three factors-satisfaction, alternatives and investments- to explain why people stay with their long-term |
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Comparison Level for Alternatives |
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if the alternative is lower than then comparison level it still may not be higher than the outcome to keep the individual from leaving the relationship. |
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refers to a social exchange theory that asserts that people seek and are most satisfied with an interpersonal relationship when their own benefits/costs ratio equals the ir partner's benefits/costs ratio. |
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Sternberg’s Theory of Love |
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there are three components of love, intimacy, passion and commitment. Passion +intimacy=romantic do it because they are obligated by love. Intimacy+ commitment= lots of liking but falsely believe. Most parents have this. Passion +commitment= physical intimacy. All of them equal consummalte love. |
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Understanding the divorce rate |
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The divorce rate has been on the rise since it was made legal. Maybe more so now because women have means to support self and their children. Men feel less obligated to support children because of paternity uncertainty. There are also added pressures from stereotype assumptions. Unknown divorce procedures/outcomes of settlements. Low initially then rise to the level of hetero-couples. |
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In exchange relationships, members benefit each other to incur or repay obligation, quid pro quo. In communal relationships, the basis of benefit is concern for the other's welfare. |
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the sexually arousing power of a new partner (greater than the appeal of a familiar partner) |
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the degree to which the sex drive can be shaped and altered by social, cultural and situational forces. |
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having sex with someone other than one’s regular relationship partner such as a spouse or boy/girlfriend |
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is the fear of losing something that you have |
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Evolutionary Approach to Love |
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theory of sexuality asserting that the sex drive has been shaped by natural selection and that its forms thus tend to be innate. |
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Conflict diff b/w hetero & gay/lesbian couples |
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similar or different; better understood in terms of biological sex of couple member than sexual orientation per se. Hetero: low agreement areas of conflict and more infidelity. Homo- better conflict resolution, less infidelity, smaller social networks for support and gender roles. |
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secure attachment, in which people are low on anxiety and low on avoidance they trust their partners, share their feelings, provide and receive support and comfort, and enjoy their relationships. Preoccupied, in which people are low on avoidance but high on anxiety; they want and enjoy closeness but worry that their relationship partners will abandon them. Dismissing attachment, in which people are low on anxiety but high on avoidance they tend to view partners as unreliable, unavailable and uncaring. Fearful attachment, in which people have both high anxiety and high avoidance; they have low opinions of themselves and keep others from getting close. |
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the idea that one person who breaks the rules can inspire other people to break the rules also. |
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the painful feelings of wanting more human contact or connection than you have. |
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the proposition that people tend to pair up with others who are equally attractive. |
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being excluded, rejected, and ignored by others |
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the ability to change one’s behavior for different situations. |
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the fact that a man cannot be sure that the children born to his female partner are his. |
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employees motivation to work |
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an emotional attachment to the organization that makes the employee want to stay in the organization. |
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a commitment to the organization based on feelings of obligation. |
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remaining with a company because of the high cost of losing organizational membership, including both monetary and social costs. |
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will-do says an employee’s normal or typical performance, that a can-do the maximum performance of which an employee is capable. |
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It is a set of properties of the work environment, perceived directly or indirectly by the employees, that is assumed to be a major force in influencing employee behavior. |
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federal law that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin |
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emphasizes the idea that social action is the result of personal choices made in order to maximize benefits and minimize costs. |
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behaviors that employees use to avoid their job, such as quitting or retiring. |
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Private Behavior/public Space studies |
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visual intrusion: ability to see/be seen. Clear panels are not effective. College dropouts are more likely to happen with students who live in dorms or with roommates and communal bathrooms and showers. |
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has proven a useful concept for understanding how we have come to be at the brink of numerous environmental dilemmas, some short-term ecological crises, others long-term energy and resource descents. In short, people face a dangerous situation created not by malicious outside forces but by the apparently appropriate and innocent behaviors of many individuals and small groups acting alone. |
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may be altruistic behavior. Social pressure on individuals to encourage community, recycling behavior. Human evolutionary trait of being sensitive to social pressures conform to the values, attitudes or behaviors of others can be exploited to increase individual participated in community recycling. |
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Psychological reactions to disaster include behavioral changes and regression in children including fear and anxiety about recurrence, sleep disturbances and school avoidance leading to development of school phobias. Re-establishing routine is essential for both children and adults. Familiar patterns of mealtime (with familiar food), work of some sort, socialization time, and bedtime routine are important for adults as well as children. |
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we judge others on the basis of warmth because abstract concepts such as affection are firmly grounded in bodily sensations. |
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Perceived scarcity will generate demand. For example, saying offers are available for a "limited time only" encourages sales. |
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refers to a reduction in stress or suffering due to a belief that one has the option of escaping or controlling the situation, even if one does not exercise it. |
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refers to a theoretical approach to the study of behavior that is interested in both overt behaviors and the role of possible cognitive mediators that may influence such behaviors directly or indirectly. Monkey see, monkey do. |
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the phenomenon of redirecting one’s anger or frustration towards individuals other than the ones who are the source of anger. |
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males are more aggressive than females. Females do silent bullying. They are more verbal when it comes to content however men are louder. |
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people drink so they don’t understand or notice someone is being mean and act they don;’t think about what the outcome will be. |
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a relationship dynamic in which conflict occasionally gets out of hand, leading usually to minor forms of violence, and rarely escalates into serious or life-threatening forms of violence. Acts of violence by men and women occur at fairly equal rates, with rare-occurrences of injury, and are not committed in an attempt to control a partner. |
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a more unilateral form of domestic violence in which a husband engages in chronic pattern of serious abuse to control a wife, who does not reciprocate with physical aggression. |
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couples tend to be similar in physical attractiveness. Being alike with regard to smoking, drinking, premarital sex, morning/night people, similar self concepts, more attractiveness |
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People tend to return a favor, thus the pervasiveness of free samples in marketing. In his conferences, he often uses the example of Ethiopia providing thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid to Mexico just after the 1985 earthquake, despite Ethiopia suffering from a crippling famine and civil war at the time. Ethiopia had been reciprocating for the diplomatic support Mexico provided when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. The good cop/bad cop strategy is also based on this principle. |
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a phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. The more you see someone the more pleasing and likeable that person appears to be. |
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Interdependence Model Equations |
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OC-CL= Satisfaction; OC-ALT=dependence |
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Thinking styles of couples |
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there could be danger if you don’t have the same thinking styles |
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seems to be negative effects. Jealousy happens more often, because of infidelity. |
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is a term used to refer to the competitive process between spermatozoa of two different males to fertilize an egg of a lone female.[1] Competition occurs whenever females engage in promiscuous mating to increase their chances in producing more viable offspring |
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Stigmatized Relationships |
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interracial, age differences, homosexual-usually get negative feedback from society. |
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Personnel Decision Making |
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women must look good in uniform. True positive, true negative, false negatives and false positives. If you have true positives and false negatives you are successful yet false negatives will be rejected. True negatives and false positives will be seen as unsuccessful yet false positives will be accepted |
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context refers to the characteristic of a given company or industry, relative to rate at which an employer gains and loses staff. |
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there are structured and unstructured. Refer to decision making. |
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women make .76 cents to a man’s dollar. The equity theory input to counter ratio and performance ratio what did you do for your BA? 2-5 times as many publications easy to be seen as men to be seen as equally. |
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unfair treatment of one person or group, usually because of prejudice about race, ethnicity, age, religion, or gender |
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The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[4] which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal. Disability is defined by the ADA as "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity." The determination of whether any particular condition is considered a disability is made on a case by case basis. |
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women and minorities believe in this the most because they have to in order to keep on striving. |
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human behavior is mostly motivated by the fear of mortality. The theory purports to help explain human activity both at the individual and societal level. |
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term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. |
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allied pro quo-this happens when job benefits are made on the basis of sexual favors. vs. hostile work environment-this happens when the employee is afraid of going to work, the enforcer is intimidating and may harm them. They are shown a 3 minute video of participants and asked how would it be to work for this man?-ick effect. |
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Unemployment do not have any long term effects on people such as it was thought before. |
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