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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Avoid effortful thinking.






2. 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).






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






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






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






6. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






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






8. When people elaborate on a persuasion communication reading/listening carefully and thinking about the arguments (central merits) given.






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.`






19. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






21. Superficial Processing.






22. 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






23. 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.






24. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






26. When people elaborate on a persuasion communication reading/listening carefully and thinking about the arguments (central merits) given.






27. Subjects had to decide appropriately - results found they were more likely to misidentify blacks with having a weapon.






28. 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.






29. The people we want to be.

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






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






32. 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






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






34. Avoid effortful thinking.






35. We may often draw inferences from our thoughts - feelings and behaviors.






36. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






37. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






38. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






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






45. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






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






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






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






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






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