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Chapter 17 Attitudes and social cognition Flashcards

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Attitude

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an association between an act or object and an evaluation

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Attitude strength

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the durability and impact of an attitude on behaviour- influenced by attitude importance and attitude accessibility

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Attitude importance

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the personal relevance of an attitude and the psychological significance of that attitude for an individual

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Attitude accessibility

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the ease with which an attitude is activated or comes to mind

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Persuasion

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deliberate efforts to change an attitude

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Central route

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method of persuasion that involves inducing the recipient of a message to think carefully and weigh the arguments

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Peripheral route

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a method of persuasion that appeals less to rational and thoughtful processes than to automatic or emotional ones

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Elaboration likelihood model

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the model of persuasion that proposes that knowing how to appeal to a person requires figuring out the likelihood that he/she will think much about the arguments

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First impressions

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can have an important influence on subsequent info processing

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Cognitive dissonance

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occurs when a person experiences a discrepancy between an attitude an a behaviour or between an attitude and a new piece of info

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Conservation psychology

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involves studying the reciprocal relationships between human and nature with a focus on changing attitudes and behaviours to encourage conservation of the environment

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Stereotypes

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characteristics attributed to people based on their membership of groups

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Social cognition

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refers to the processes by which people make sense of themselves, others and social relationships

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Identity

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sense of who we are, influenced by social cognitions e.hg environment and role we play in life

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Attribution

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process of inferring the causes of one own and others behaviours and mental states

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Racism

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prejudicial attitudes towards members of a particular ethnic group on the belief that ones race is superior

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Self-handicapping

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a process by which people set themselves up to fail when success is uncertain to preserve their self-esteem

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Prejudice

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judging people based on negative stereotypes

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Discrimination

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behaviours that follow from negative attitudes towards particular group members

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Self-consistency

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motive to interpret info that fits the way one already see’s oneself

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Self-esteem

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the degree to which a person likes or respects themselves

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Self-representation

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mental models or representations of the self

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Self

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the person including, mental processes, body and personality characteristics

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Biases in social info processing

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fundamental attribution error, self-serving bias

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Fundamental attribution error

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the tendency to assume that other peoples behaviour corresponds to their internal states rather than external situations

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Self-serving bias

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the tendency to see ourselves in a more positive light than we deserve

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Self-schema

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a schema about the self that guides the way we think about and remember info relevant to ourselves

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Social psychology

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examines the influence of social processes on the way people think, feel and behave

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Downside to high attitude accessibility

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its potential to interfere without ability to detect changes in the attitude object

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Cognitive complexity

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the intricacy of thoughts about different attitude objects

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Positive affect

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a general category of emotions related to feeling good

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Negative affect

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a general category of emotions related to feeling bad

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Ideal self

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the self people would like to be

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Ought self

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the self they feel they should be

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Implicit attitudes

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associations between attitudes, objects and feelings about them that regulate thought and behaviour unconsciously and automatically

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Attitudinal coherence

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the extent to which an attitude is internally consistent

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Attitudinal ambivalence

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the extent to which a given attitude object is associated with conflicting evaluative responses- positive and negative dimensions that are relatively independent

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self-presentation

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process by which people try to control the impressions that others form of them

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Actual self

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how they really are

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Attitude inoculation

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building up a receivers resistance to an opposing attitude by presenting weak arguments for it or forewarning of a strong opposing persuasive appeal

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Persuasion

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deliberate efforts to change an attitude

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Components of persuasion

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source, message, channel, context and receiver

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The elaboration likelihood model of persuasion

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proposes that knowing how to appeal to a person requires figuring out the likelihood that he or she will think much about the arguments

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Dissonance reduction

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reducing an uncomfortable emotional state reinforces an attitude change- occurs automatically without conscious reflection

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Self-perception theory

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individual infer their attitudes, emotional and other internal states by observing their own behaviour

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First impressions

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the initial perceptions of another person that affects future beliefs about that person

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Halo effect

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tendency to assume that positive qualities cluster together

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What is beautiful is good

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people who are physically attractive are assumed to possess a number of other favourable qualities

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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when feeling attractive leads to behaviours perceived by other as attractive

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stereotypes

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characteristics attributed to people based on their membership of a specific group

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Prejudice

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judging people based on stereotypes

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Discrimination

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behaviours that follow from evaluations or attitudes towards members of a particular group

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Racism

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specific form of prejudice based on a set of norms that their is a biological hierarchy that deems one ethnic group superior to another

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Polyculturalism

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that attitude that all cultures are interrelated and dynamic with loose boundaries

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Authoritarian persona

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a tendency to hate people who are different- individuals tend to have a dominant father and submissive mother

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Social identity theory

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suggest that people derive part of their identity from the groups to which they belong

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IN-GROUPS

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people perceived as belonging to a valued group

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OUT-GROUPS

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people perceived as not belonging to a valued group

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Superordinate goals

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goals requiring groups to cooperate for the benefit of all

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Augmentation

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increasing an internal attribution for behaviour that has occurred despite situational demands

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Discounting

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when people downplay the role of one variable, because they know that others may be contributing to the behaviour in question

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External attributions

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attributions to the situation

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internal attributions

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attributions to the person

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Intuitive scientists

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the concept of people as lay scientists who use intuitive theories, frame hypotheses and collect data about themselves

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Attribution

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the process of inferring the causes of ones own and others mental states and behaviour

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Assimilation

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acculturation that involves absorption into the dominant culture and abandonment of the traditional

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Attributional style

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a persons habitual manner of assigning causes to behaviours or events

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3 types of attribution info

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consensus, consistency and distinctiveness

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Consensus

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the way most people respond

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Consistency

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the extent to which a person always responds in the same way to the same stimulus

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Distinctiveness

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refers to the individuals likelihood to respond this way to many different stimulus

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Ostracism

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people are excluded, rejected or ignored

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3 elements of attribution

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people seek to understand why certain events happen, people attribute the outcome to a cause, people base their future behaviour on the attributions they make

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BIRG

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basking in reflected glory

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3 step process to making attribution

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categorise the behaviour you’ve observed, categorise the persons personality and this may discount the attribution

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fundamental attribution error

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tendency to assume that other peoples behaviour corresponds to their internal states rather than their external situations

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confirmation bias

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tendency to seek out info that confirms your own hypotheses

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self-presentation

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people attempt to control the impressions that others form of them

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self-concept

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concept of self- guides the way we think about and remember info about ourselves

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self-presentational predicaments

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instances which our desires to influence the impressions people form of us fail

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self-monitoring

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individual differences in the degree to which people manage their impressions

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