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Social Psychology

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






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






3. Tend to shape their behavior for their audience and situations.






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






10. Message Learning Approach






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






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






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






14. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






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






16. 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.






17. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






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






19. 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.






20. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






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






22. The people we think we should be.

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23. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






25. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






27. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






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






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






31. The theory that people evaluate their own abilities and opinions by comparing themselves to others.






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






33. The people we want to be.

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






35. Initially played game for 20mins average - when given extra credit played 25mins (ave) - after reward stopped played only for 14min -






36. 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.






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






38. 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).






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






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






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






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






43. When people realize their behavior is caused by an EXTERNAL FACTOR they do not assume that it reflects their INTERNAL FEELINGS.`






44. Had subjects spend an hour performing really boring repetitive tasks. 1/3 received $20 to tell next subject that task was fun. 1/3 only received $1 - last 1/3 not asked to lie.






45. Had subjects spend an hour performing really boring repetitive tasks. 1/3 received $20 to tell next subject that task was fun. 1/3 only received $1 - last 1/3 not asked to lie.






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






47. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






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






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