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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. An individual difference reflecting the extent which people engage in and effortful cognitive activities. (playing chess)






2. High Personal relevance had higher agreement if had strong argument vs weaker - which was also higher for strong arguments.






3. Persuasion processes fall along a 'continuum' of cognitive processing. Consider this as synonyms with superficial vs systematic processing.






4. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






6. Specific Responses are followed by positive or negative consequences.






7. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






8. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






9. Stereotyping Increases as.






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






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






12. Argued we form positive association to the sight of our own name - and are drawn to people and places that resemble this. (Mike from Michigan - Denise the Dentist).






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






14. The diversity of self aspects people develop for various roles.






15. Relies on subtle methods: Disguised questionaires -Elaborate cover stories -Physiological measures -Implicit reaction times.






16. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






17. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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18. Behavior toward a social group and its members. The way our attitude influences how we act or behave.






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






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






22. A covert computer based measure derived from the speed at which people respond to paring of a concept. (How quickly associate minorities with danger).






23. 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.






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






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






26. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






27. 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.






28. Persuasion processes fall along a 'continuum' of cognitive processing. Consider this as synonyms with superficial vs systematic processing.






29. People evaluate themselves against internal 'ideal' and ought standards - producing emotional consequences.






30. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






31. A narrower more specific social group that is part of a broad social group.






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






33. An individual difference reflecting the extent which people engage in and effortful cognitive activities. (playing chess)






34. 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.






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






36. Injected males with epinephrine. 1 group told of the true effects of drug - 1 group not told - 1 group received placebo. Then left with confederate who were told was in same situations - he acted either angry or happy. Results showed those not aware






37. The people we want to be.

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38. Injected males with epinephrine. 1 group told of the true effects of drug - 1 group not told - 1 group received placebo. Then left with confederate who were told was in same situations - he acted either angry or happy. Results showed those not aware






39. Subjects had to decide appropriately - results found they were more likely to misidentify blacks with having a weapon.






40. Emphasis on how people learn persuasive messages. Researched who says what to whom. Who-the source of the communication. WHat- the nature of the communication.






41. Incentives for the new attitudinal position must out weigh those of the current/ initial attitude.






42. An individual's positive or negative evaluation or himself/herself.






43. 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.






44. 1/2 told University is considering the exams for next year (high relevance). 1/2 told exams for 10 years in future (low relevance).






45. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






46. Conditional (Classical/Operant) - Mere exposure effect - Self-perception effects.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. Argued we form positive association to the sight of our own name - and are drawn to people and places that resemble this. (Mike from Michigan - Denise the Dentist).






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