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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






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






3. Extreme hatred for other groups.


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






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






6. The people we want to be.


7. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. The people we think we should be.


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






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






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






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






21. Avoid effortful thinking.






22. The extent to which people are sensitive to the demands of social situations and shape their behavior accordingly.






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






24. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






25. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






27. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






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






29. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






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






31. 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






32. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






33. 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






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






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






36. Doing something because you want to.






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






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






41. Message Learning Approach






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






43. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






44. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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.