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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. A narrower more specific social group that is part of a broad social group.






2. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






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






4. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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






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






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






8. Doing something because you want to.






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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.`






18. 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.






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






20. Makes all members of a group seem more similar to each other than if they were not categorized. Also - categorization can also exaggerate differences between groups.






21. Had subjects hear an audio message in favor of 'Senior Comprehensive Exams'. 1/2 given strong argument vs Weak.






22. Message Learning Approach






23. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






25. 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






26. Superficial Processing.






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






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






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






30. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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31. Doing something because you want to.






32. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






33. 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






34. Physical appearance - interest and goals - preferred activities - attitudes.






35. 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






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






37. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






39. Message Learning Approach






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. The people we think we should be.

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






48. 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.






49. 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.`






50. 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.