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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. ENjoy cognitive activities and engage in them when they have the chance.






2. 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.






3. Found similar effects as Payne - in a video game simulation. Found all subjects include blacks were more likely to shoot a black holding a tool.`






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






5. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






6. Stereotyping Increases as.






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






8. Doing something because you want to.






9. When people realize their behavior is caused by an EXTERNAL FACTOR they do not assume that it reflects their INTERNAL FEELINGS.`






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






11. 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.






12. Superficial Processing.






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






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






15. Stereotyping Increases as.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






24. 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.






25. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. 1/2 subject given easy questions and told that they did better than average (non ego threatning) (ViceVersa). Then had those ego-threatened interact with others who didn't take test. Subjects that didn't take test rated the ego-threatened people as l






34. 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






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






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






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






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. 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.






40. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. Superficial Processing.






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






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






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