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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. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






3. Avoid effortful thinking.






4. 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).






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






8. We are biologically programmed for self preservation - but we are always in fear of our own death. Self-Esteem serves as a buffer for this.






9. 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.






10. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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11. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






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






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






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






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






16. Message Learning Approach






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






18. 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.






19. Attitude-Behavior Consistency Problems. Persuasion effects were difficult to replicate. Conflicting findings and theories.






20. Under time pressure -Experiencing extreme emotions - At low circadian rhythm (tired)






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






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






28. Gave participants a long list of names paired with different words. 1/2 paired neg. words with 'George' and neutral words with 'Ed' (VV). After leaving room subjects talked with either 'Ed Fuller' or 'George Foster'. Results showed people were viewed






29. 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.






30. 1/2 told University is considering the exams for next year (high relevance). 1/2 told exams for 10 years in future (low relevance).






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






32. Central Route - Systematic Processing






33. 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.






34. A motive for choosing behaviors that are intended to elicit a desired impression of the self.






35. 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.`






36. Attitude structures cna be described in terms of three components: AFFECT BEHAVIOR COGNITION






37. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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






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






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






41. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






43. Measured extent of white preference for a white vs black stimulus person.85% of 6 year old's preferred whites. 70%-10 year olds - 50% of adults.






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






45. Attention - Comprehension - Yielding (attitude change) - Retention.






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. Superficial Processing.