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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Own Mood States - Message Length - Source Attractiveness - Source Credibility.






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






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






4. 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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5. 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.






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. 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.






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






19. Message Learning Approach






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






21. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






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






23. The people we think we should be.

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






25. Superficial Processing.






26. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






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






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






29. Measured in several groups. Results showed blacks had average higher self esteem relative to whites - while other groups had lower self esteem in comparison to whites.`






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. THat increased incentive leads greater likelihood of attitude change.






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






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






39. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






48. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






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






50. 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.







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