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Social Psychology

Subject : humanities
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1. Beliefs about attributes of a group. This involves a persons belief/ knowledge about an attitude object.






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






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






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






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






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. Avoid effortful thinking.






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






9. 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.






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






11. Doing something because you want to.






12. 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.`






13. 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.






14. Tend to behave consistently across audience and situations.






15. 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






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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).






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






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






23. Message Learning Approach - Cognitive Dissonance Theory.






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






25. Incentives for the new attitudinal position must out weigh those of the current/ initial attitude.






26. Peripheral Route - Superficial Processing.






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






28. 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






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






30. Central Route - Systematic Processing






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Had subjects hear an audio message in favor of 'Senior Comprehensive Exams'. 1/2 given strong argument vs Weak.






36. Avoid effortful thinking.






37. 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.






38. The Elaboration Likelihood Model.






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






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






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






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






43. Emphasis on how people learn persuasive messages. Researched who says what to whom. Who-the source of the communication. WHat- the nature of the communication.






44. A covert computer based measure derived from the speed at which people respond to paring of a concept. (How quickly associate minorities with danger).






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






46. The people we think we should be.

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47. Had subjects hear an audio message in favor of 'Senior Comprehensive Exams'. 1/2 given strong argument vs Weak.






48. 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.






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






50. 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.