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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. 1/3 kids draw pictures - 1/3 told would get award - 1/3 not told about reward before starting but received after. Those with unexpected reward had highest.






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






3. Specific Responses are followed by positive or negative consequences.






4. 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.






5. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






6. An individual's positive or negative evaluation or himself/herself.






7. 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.






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






9. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






10. Attitude structures cna be described in terms of three components: AFFECT BEHAVIOR COGNITION






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






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






13. 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).






14. Stereotyping Increases as.






15. Message Learning Approach






16. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






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






18. Gave British subjects photos of a day in the life of a skinhead - told to write about him. 1/2 told to avoid stereotypes. Then were told they would meet him in a room - but He was out - they then measured how far they sat. Those that were told to avo






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






20. Nonsense syllables visually and paired with positive or negative words via audio. Ex saw nonsense word but saw either 'sweet' or 'ugly'. Results showed people formed attitudes based on pairing of +/- words.






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






22. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






32. Central Route - Systematic Processing






33. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






41. Doing something because you want to.






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






43. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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






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






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






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






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






49. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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