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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Refers to the performance of the activity in order to obtain an outcome.






2. The extent to which people are sensitive to the demands of social situations and shape their behavior accordingly.






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






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






5. Doing something because you want to.






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






12. People evaluate themselves against internal 'ideal' and ought standards - producing emotional consequences.






13. 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






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






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






16. After telling subject were asked how much they enjoyed experiment honestly. Those paid $1 to lie rated the task as more enjoyable than those paid $20. Because incentive wasn't high enough those paid only $1 changed attitude toward task. Thus it isnt






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






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






19. Superficial Processing.






20. 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.






21. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






22. Avoid effortful thinking.






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






27. After telling subject were asked how much they enjoyed experiment honestly. Those paid $1 to lie rated the task as more enjoyable than those paid $20. Because incentive wasn't high enough those paid only $1 changed attitude toward task. Thus it isnt






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






29. The idea that emotional experience is the result of a two-step self-perception process in which people first experience physiological arousal and then seek an appropriate explanation for it






30. 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.






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






32. 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






33. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






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






36. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






38. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






39. When people do not elaborate on the arguments of a communication but are instead swayed by factors that are peripheral to the message.






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






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






42. 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






43. Subjects read persuasive message in favor of tuition increase. 1/2 received message that had only strong arguments. 1/2 received for weak. Results showed high NFC participants were persuaded b strong arguments vs weak.






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. Under time pressure -Experiencing extreme emotions - At low circadian rhythm (tired)






48. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






49. 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).






50. Attitude toward a social group and its members.