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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. People low in self complexity felt better after success and worse after failure than people high in self complexity.






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






8. Interpreting information concerning the self in a way that leads to overly positive evaluations. People usually rate themselves above average on positive traits.






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. Nonsense syllables visually and paired with positive or negative words via audio. Ex saw nonsense word but saw either 'sweet' or 'ugly'. Results showed people formed attitudes based on pairing of +/- words.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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).






25. 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.`






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






27. Called students at the U of Hawaii and asked their opinion about a new university festival. Students then heard statement about the festival and asked if they agreed or not. 1/2 were rewarded with 'good' when said good things - 1/2 when said bad.






28. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.`






32. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Avoid effortful thinking.






38. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






39. THat increased incentive leads greater likelihood of attitude change.






40. Superficial Processing.






41. Attitude toward a social group and its members.






42. 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.






43. Randomly assigned morning types and evening types - and led experiment during morning - noon - and evening. Subjects read evidence about Robert Garner - and Roberto Garcia - found Roberto Garcia rated more negatively at morning time.






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






45. 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.






46. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






48. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






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