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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. The people we think we should be.

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






3. Any unjustified positive or negative behavior dierected toward a social group and its members.






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






10. People don't need to have unpleasant tension and inconsistency to change. People might simply observe their own behaviors.






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






18. Avoid effortful thinking.






19. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






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






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






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






23. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. The idea that emotional experience is the result of a two-step self-perception process in which people first experience physiological arousal and then seek an appropriate explanation for it






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






40. 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.






41. We make inferences about our attitudes by observing our own behaviors when 'internal cues' are weak or ambiguous.






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






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






44. Gave British subjects photos of a day in the life of a skinhead - told to write about him. 1/2 told to avoid stereotypes. Then were told they would meet him in a room - but He was out - they then measured how far they sat. Those that were told to avo






45. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






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






47. 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.






48. Creating mental obstacles and excuses for selves - for if we do poorly on task we can fall back on.






49. ENjoy cognitive activities and engage in them when they have the chance.






50. Stereotyping Increases as.