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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Attitude-Behavior Consistency Problems. Persuasion effects were difficult to replicate. Conflicting findings and theories.






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






3. Avoid effortful thinking.






4. The people we want to be.

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5. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






11. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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






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






21. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






22. Stereotyping Increases as.






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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






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






28. 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.






29. Doing something because you want to.






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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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38. 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






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






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






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. A non-conscious form of self-enhancement.






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






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






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






46. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






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






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






49. 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.






50. Self Concept - Self Esteem.