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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. An individual's positive or negative evaluation or himself/herself.






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






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






4. Superficial Processing.






5. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






6. When people believe that some groups don't have what it takes and should be excluded from desirable positions - wealth - and power.

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






8. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






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






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






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






12. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. A covert computer based measure derived from the speed at which people respond to paring of a concept. (How quickly associate minorities with danger).






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






17. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






19. Subjects read persuasive message in favor of tuition increase. 1/2 received message that had only strong arguments. 1/2 received for weak. Results showed high NFC participants were persuaded b strong arguments vs weak.






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






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






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






23. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. The people we think we should be.

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30. A person has to remember the content of a for it to have a lasting impact.






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






46. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. The people we want to be.

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