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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Beliefs about attributes of a group. This involves a persons belief/ knowledge about an attitude object.






2. The people we want to be.

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






4. 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.






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






6. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






7. 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.






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






9. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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






11. 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.






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






13. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






14. The people we think we should be.

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






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






17. 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.






18. 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






19. 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.






20. Had subjects spend an hour performing really boring repetitive tasks. 1/3 received $20 to tell next subject that task was fun. 1/3 only received $1 - last 1/3 not asked to lie.






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






22. 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.






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






24. High Personal relevance had higher agreement if had strong argument vs weaker - which was also higher for strong arguments.






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






26. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






28. People don't need to have unpleasant tension and inconsistency to change. People might simply observe their own behaviors.






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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






35. 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.`






36. Message Learning Approach






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






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






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






40. 1/2 told University is considering the exams for next year (high relevance). 1/2 told exams for 10 years in future (low relevance).






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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






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