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Social Psychology

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






2. An individual difference reflecting the extent which people engage in and effortful cognitive activities. (playing chess)






3. 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.






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






5. Doing something because you want to.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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).






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






19. The people we want to be.

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20. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






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






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






24. Behavior toward a social group and its members. The way our attitude influences how we act or behave.






25. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






26. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






27. Avoid effortful thinking.






28. 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.






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






30. 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






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






32. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






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






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






36. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






38. Measured extent of white preference for a white vs black stimulus person.85% of 6 year old's preferred whites. 70%-10 year olds - 50% of adults.






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






40. 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.






41. 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






42. The people we want to be.

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43. Creating mental obstacles and excuses for selves - for if we do poorly on task we can fall back on.






44. The people we think we should be.

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45. Beliefs about attributes of a group. This involves a persons belief/ knowledge about an attitude object.






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






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






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. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






50. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.







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