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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Specific Responses are followed by positive or negative consequences.






2. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






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






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






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






6. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






7. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






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






9. The theory that people evaluate their own abilities and opinions by comparing themselves to others.






10. 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.






11. Message Learning Approach






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






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






14. 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






15. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






16. Superficial Processing.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. The people we think we should be.

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25. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






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






27. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






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






35. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






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






38. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






40. 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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41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.`






47. The people we want to be.

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






49. 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.






50. Argued we form positive association to the sight of our own name - and are drawn to people and places that resemble this. (Mike from Michigan - Denise the Dentist).







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