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






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






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






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






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






8. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






9. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. The people we think we should be.

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






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






18. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






19. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






20. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






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






23. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






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






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






27. Message Learning Approach






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






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






30. Superficial Processing.






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






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






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






39. Persuasion processes fall along a 'continuum' of cognitive processing. Consider this as synonyms with superficial vs systematic processing.






40. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






41. Injected males with epinephrine. 1 group told of the true effects of drug - 1 group not told - 1 group received placebo. Then left with confederate who were told was in same situations - he acted either angry or happy. Results showed those not aware






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






43. 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.






44. We are biologically programmed for self preservation - but we are always in fear of our own death. Self-Esteem serves as a buffer for this.






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






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






47. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






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






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






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