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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Doing something because you want to.






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






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






4. 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.






5. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






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






7. 1/2 told message source was a Princeton professor (High Expertise). 1/2 told it was a high school student (Low Expertise).






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






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






10. Allows us to master our environment. Also deal with others efficiently and appropriately.






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






12. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






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


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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. Extreme hatred for other groups.


19. 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.`






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






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






30. The people we want to be.


31. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






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






33. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






34. 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






35. 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.`






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






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






38. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






40. Message Learning Approach






41. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.