Chapter 17: Interpersonal Processes

1. Chapter 17: Interpersonal Processes By: Ubaldo Ortiz

2. Terms Situational variables: aspects of the situation that interact with aspects of the person to produce behavior Dispositional variables: personalities and behavior Interpersonal attraction: The factors that lead people to choose to spend time with other people Social exchange theories: Theories based on behaviorist principles which suggest that the foundation of relationships is reciprocal reward Passionate love: High emotional form of love marked by intense arousal and absorption in another person Sexual strategies: tactics used in selecting mates Altruism: Behaving in a way that helps another person with no apparent gain or with potential cost, to oneself Bystander intervention: Form of altruism involving helping a person in need Social facilitation: the phenomenon in which the presence of other people facilitates or hinders individual performances Frustration-aggression hypothesis: the hypothesis that when people are frustrated in achieving a goal, they may become more aggressive

3. Important People Catherine Ryan Hyde: Came up with the idea “pay it forward” in which she emphasized that major events don’t have to be involved. A random act of kindness can motivate someone else to behave similarly Samuel Oliner: A 12 year old that was invaded by the Nazis in Poland. He was able to escape until the war was over. Over this time he witnessed a baby being shot and others being slaughtered. He want to a Christian home to be protected and taken care, after this he wrote a book and his rescuers were seen as abstract or complex principles. Benjamin Davis: Experienced a severe ostracism while a student at West Point. The shining of his classmates made him more motivated to excel. In 1998, Clinton awarded him an honorary promotion to four star general. Adam Smith: he delineated a principle of human nature that he believed to be universal and unchanging. He also outlined a psychological view of moral feelings and moral behavior based on sympathy.

4. Summary There are many factors that lead to interpersonal attraction whether it has to do with proximity, similarity, rewards, and physical attractiveness. There are two types of love in the psychology world such as passionate love which is when there is intense physiological arousal and companion love which has to do with love that involves deep affection and friendship. Another, topic in which was approached was altruism and it is about one’s personal motives, motivating that of others. Any present altruistic may reflect on one’s selfish or unselfish motives.psychologist studied that when people don’t help in a lifetime crisis there may be that one person who sees others selfish behavior, therefore they may have motives to be unselfish. The third topic we learned about was aggression which is verbal or physical behavior aimed at harming another person. The neural control of aggression is hierarchically organized through different neural processes. A person or situational input variables combine to determine the presence or absence of aggressive output. Social influence refers to the way people change do to the presence of others. People may change their behavior or attitude because they may want to portray a good version of themselves, however that really isn’t them on a daily basis. Sometimes it can also be group to group influence which means one group is affected by the actions of the other group. In conclusion, interpersonal processes has to do with society and how one is affected by the actions of other beings