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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






5. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






6. 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






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






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






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






10. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






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






13. Avoid effortful thinking.






14. Discrepancy - Emotional Reactions - Long-Term Effects.






15. A generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people -. formed by associating particular characteristics with a particular group.






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






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






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






19. Central Route - Systematic Processing






20. Stereotyping Increases as.






21. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. People don't need to have unpleasant tension and inconsistency to change. People might simply observe their own behaviors.






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






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. Message Learning Approach






45. Extreme hatred for other groups.

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






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






48. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






49. Conditional (Classical/Operant) - Mere exposure effect - Self-perception effects.






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