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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Physical appearance - interest and goals - preferred activities - attitudes.






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 1 week later in the survey showed students were more favorable about the festival if rewarded for being favorable - and less for being unfavorable.






8. 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.






9. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






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






12. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






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






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






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






17. The people we want to be.

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18. 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






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






20. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






21. Attitude structures cna be described in terms of three components: AFFECT BEHAVIOR COGNITION






22. 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.`






23. Balance Theories - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






24. 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.






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






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. 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. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






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






30. Central Route - Systematic Processing






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






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






34. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






35. Stereotyping Increases as.






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






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






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






39. 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).






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. Those who cannot accept their own 'inner conflicts' believe in authority and see their own inadequacies in others. Thus prejudice acts as a protection from self doubts.






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






48. 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.






49. A narrower more specific social group that is part of a broad social group.






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