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Social Psychology

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






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






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






4. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






5. 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.






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






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






8. Superficial Processing.






9. Superficial Processing.






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






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






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






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






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






15. Message Learning Approach






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






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






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






20. Stereotyping Increases as.






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






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






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






32. Stereotyping Increases as.






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






38. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






39. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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