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social cognition

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people gathering data & predicting social situations while going through life

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atttitude

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set of beliefs and feelingsm

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mere exposure effect

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the more you are exposed to something, the more you will like it

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central route (processing persuasive messages)

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processes content of message

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peripheral route (processing persuasive messages)

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processes other aspects of the message (like how hot the person giving the message is)

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cognitive dissonance theory

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when people’s attitudes can be changed if you change their behavior

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dissonance

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unpleasant mental tension that usually follows participating in behaviors that go against their attitudes

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foot in the door (compliance strategy)

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a small request is followed by a larger request

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door in the face (compliance strategy)

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a unrealistically large request is followed by a smaller request

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norms of reciprocality

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people tend to feel obligated to return the favor when you do something nice for them

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dispositional/person attributions

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believing the cause is a personal factor

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situational attribution

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believing the cause is a situational/environmental factor

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person-stable attribution

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believing the cause is an unchanging personal factor

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person unstable attribution

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believing the cause is a one time personal factor

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situational stable attribution

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believing the cause is an unchanging situational factor

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situational unstable attribution

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believing the cause is a one time situational factor

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Harold Kelly’s theory

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proposed that people make attributions based off 3 factors:
consistency- how similarly an individual acts in the same situation over time

distinctiveness- how similar the scenario is to other scenarios

consensus- how other people behave in the same scenario

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self fulfilling prophecy

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how other people’s expectations can influence how someone behaves

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fundamental attribution error

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overestimating personal attributions and underestimating situational attributions

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false consensus effect

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when people overestimate how many others agree with their decisions

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self serving bias

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tendency to take more credit for good results than bad ones

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just world bias

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the belief that bad things happen to bad people

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stereotypes

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ideas/expectations on how certain groups behave

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prejudice

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underserved negative attitudes towards a group

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ethnocentrism

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the belief that one culture is superior to another

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discrimination

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acting on prejudices/acting against certain groups

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out group homogeneity

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the tendency to see members of your own group (in group) as more diverse than members of other groups (out groups)

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in group bias

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preference for people in your own group

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contact theory

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contact between hostile groups can lower hostility, but only if they have a superordinate goal (goal that benefits everyone)

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instrumental aggression

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when aggression is used to reach a particular goal

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hostile aggression

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aggression with no clear reason

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frustration aggression hypothesis

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theorizes that frustration makes aggression more likely

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bystander effect

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the larger the group of people that witnesses an event, the less likely anyone is to help

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diffusion of responsibility

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the larger the group, the less responsible any single individual feels to help

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pluralistic ignorance

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deciding on what appropriate behavior is by copying others around you

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self disclosure

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sharing personal info with another

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social facilitation

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when the presence of others improves personal performance

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social impairment

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presence of others during a difficult task can hurt performance

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norms

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rules about how group members should act

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roles

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jobs for group members

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social loafing

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when an individual puts less effort when in a group than when alone (because they are less likely to be recognized for their own efforts)

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group polarization

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tendency for an individual to make more extreme decisions as a group than when alolne

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groupthink

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tendency for groups to make bad decisions

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deindividualization

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when people in a group do things they would have never done on their own.

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