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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Tend to shape their behavior for their audience and situations.






2. Found that people were frieghtened into thinking they would receive shocks sought others in the same situation- influenced behavior.






3. Randomly assigned morning types and evening types - and led experiment during morning - noon - and evening. Subjects read evidence about Robert Garner - and Roberto Garcia - found Roberto Garcia rated more negatively at morning time.






4. When people elaborate on a persuasion communication reading/listening carefully and thinking about the arguments (central merits) given.






5. Allows us to master our environment. Also deal with others efficiently and appropriately.






6. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






7. Interpreting information concerning the self in a way that leads to overly positive evaluations. People usually rate themselves above average on positive traits.






8. Discrepancy - Emotional Reactions - Long-Term Effects.






9. Found similar effects as Payne - in a video game simulation. Found all subjects include blacks were more likely to shoot a black holding a tool.`






10. We tend to attribute our own behaviors to situational causes while seeing others behaviors as caused by internal characteristics. Especially when behaviors are negative.






11. Any unjustified positive or negative behavior dierected toward a social group and its members.






12. Makes all members of a group seem more similar to each other than if they were not categorized. Also - categorization can also exaggerate differences between groups.






13. A motive for choosing behaviors that are intended to reflect and express the self concept.






14. When an expected external incentive such as money or prizes decreases a persons intrinsic motivation to perform a task.






15. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






16. An individual's overall image of himself or herself.






17. Own Mood States - Message Length - Source Attractiveness - Source Credibility.






18. Stereotyping Increases as.






19. Own Mood States - Message Length - Source Attractiveness - Source Credibility.






20. Pair neutral objects with stimuli that already bring about desired response. EX Mothballs->Grandparents->Pleasant feelin Mothball-->Pleasant Feeling.






21. Memory message content does not always matter in persuasion. Incentive based predictions do not always work.






22. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






23. Superficial Processing.






24. Doing something because you want to.






25. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






26. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






27. We desire self esteem - to be aligned with other people to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.






28. 1/2 told 60% answers right - 1/2 told 40%. Also told either that their average was 20% better or worse. People like more that they were better than average.






29. We have more situational information about ourselves than we do for others. -Also others behavior is salient. -Could also be because we view selves in positive light.






30. When people believe that some groups don't have what it takes and should be excluded from desirable positions - wealth - and power.

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31. THat increased incentive leads greater likelihood of attitude change.






32. Most Social Psychologist and Evolutionary psychologist agree. Contemporary social psychologist believe such phenomena results form similar social cognitive.






33. Prejudice learned from others (teachers - parents - peers - media).






34. Avoid effortful thinking.






35. Wrote poem - drew pictures - generated business solutions.






36. Nonsense syllables visually and paired with positive or negative words via audio. Ex saw nonsense word but saw either 'sweet' or 'ugly'. Results showed people formed attitudes based on pairing of +/- words.






37. People low in self complexity felt better after success and worse after failure than people high in self complexity.






38. An unpleasant state caused by people's awareness of inconsistency among various beliefs - attitudes or actions. We are motivated to achieve and maintain cognitive consistency to avoid dissonance.






39. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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40. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






41. Primed words associated with stereotypes of blacks - or nonsense syllables.Then read description of person with traits related to stereotypes. Effects higher for those with high anti black prejudice.






42. The individual must perceive the action as inconsistent; Must take personal responsibility for the act; Must experience physiological arousal; Must attribute the arousal to the action.






43. We desire self esteem - to be aligned with other people to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.






44. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






45. Suppressing stereotypical thoughts makes them more likely for these thoughts to come out and influence future actions and thoughts.






46. 1/3 kids draw pictures - 1/3 told would get award - 1/3 not told about reward before starting but received after. Those with unexpected reward had highest.






47. Primed words associated with stereotypes of blacks - or nonsense syllables.Then read description of person with traits related to stereotypes. Effects higher for those with high anti black prejudice.






48. Refers to the performance of the activity in order to obtain an outcome.






49. Beliefs about attributes of a group. This involves a persons belief/ knowledge about an attitude object.






50. Physical appearance - interest and goals - preferred activities - attitudes.