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Social Psychology

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






2. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






3. 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.






4. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






5. Process of identifying individuals as members of a social group because they share typical features of a group. When people are perceived as members of a group not as individuals.






6. Stereotyping Increases as.






7. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






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






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






10. 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






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






13. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






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






16. Called students at the U of Hawaii and asked their opinion about a new university festival. Students then heard statement about the festival and asked if they agreed or not. 1/2 were rewarded with 'good' when said good things - 1/2 when said bad.






17. The theory that certain types of direct contact between groups will reduce prejudice. More contact is thought to increase the amount of information learned.






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






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






20. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






21. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






22. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






24. 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.






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






26. Stereotyping Increases as.






27. An account of attitude change developed by psychologist Daryl Bem. It asserts that people develop their attitudes by observing their behavior and concluding what attitudes must have caused them.






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






29. 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.






30. A generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people -. formed by associating particular characteristics with a particular group.






31. Person is more motivated to think carefully about argument presented. (central route).






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






33. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






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






35. After telling subject were asked how much they enjoyed experiment honestly. Those paid $1 to lie rated the task as more enjoyable than those paid $20. Because incentive wasn't high enough those paid only $1 changed attitude toward task. Thus it isnt






36. 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.






37. A non-conscious form of self-enhancement.






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. Those who cannot accept their own 'inner conflicts' believe in authority and see their own inadequacies in others. Thus prejudice acts as a protection from self doubts.






42. Central Route - Systematic Processing






43. 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.






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






45. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






47. 1/2 subject given easy questions and told that they did better than average (non ego threatning) (ViceVersa). Then had those ego-threatened interact with others who didn't take test. Subjects that didn't take test rated the ego-threatened people as l






48. We may often draw inferences from our thoughts - feelings and behaviors.






49. Message Learning Approach






50. As a ability or motivation is lacking. Similar to relying on stereotypes when not thinking.







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