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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






2. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






3. 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.






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






5. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






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






8. Central Route - Systematic Processing






9. When people believe that some groups don't have what it takes and should be excluded from desirable positions - wealth - and power.


10. 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.`






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. Message Learning Approach






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. When people believe that some groups don't have what it takes and should be excluded from desirable positions - wealth - and power.


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






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






27. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






28. 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.






29. Superficial Processing.






30. 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.






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






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






33. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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






41. 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.`






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






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






44. Attitude-Behavior Consistency Problems. Persuasion effects were difficult to replicate. Conflicting findings and theories.






45. 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






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






47. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






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






49. 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.






50. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.