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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Person is more motivated to think carefully about argument presented. (central route).






2. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






4. 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






5. Gender - Ethnicity - Age.






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






7. 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.






8. Doing something because you want to.






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






10. Most Social Psychologist and Evolutionary psychologist agree. Contemporary social psychologist believe such phenomena results form similar social cognitive.






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






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






13. Superficial Processing.






14. Relies on subtle methods: Disguised questionaires -Elaborate cover stories -Physiological measures -Implicit reaction times.






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. Extreme hatred for other groups.


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






33. Elaboration likelihood model - Heuristic Systematic Model.






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






35. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






40. Self Concept - Self Esteem.






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






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






43. Tend to shape their behavior for their audience and situations.






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






45. 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).






46. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






48. 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.






49. 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






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