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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






9. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






10. The people we want to be.

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






12. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Doing something because you want to.






21. 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






22. An attitude toward the members of some groups based solely on their memberships in that group (can be positive or negative).






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






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






25. 1/2 told University is considering the exams for next year (high relevance). 1/2 told exams for 10 years in future (low relevance).






26. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






28. 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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29. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






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






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






32. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






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






35. 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.






36. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






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






38. 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.






39. When people do not elaborate on the arguments of a communication but are instead swayed by factors that are peripheral to the message.






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






41. 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.






42. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






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






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






45. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






46. A non-conscious form of self-enhancement.






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






48. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






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






50. 1/2 told 60% answers right - 1/2 told 40%. Also told either that their average was 20% better or worse. People like more that they were better than average.