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Chapter 9 Social Cognition Flashcards

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Social cognition

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How we interpret, analyse, remember and use information to make judgements about others in different social situations

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Person perception

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The mental processes we use to form impressions and draw conclusions about the personal characteristics of other people.

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What is the role of person perception?

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~Make judgements about others
~Influence our choices of friends
~Influence who we should have relationships with and who we should avoid

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The halo effect

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A cognitive bias in which the impression we form about one quality of a person influences our beliefs and expectations about the person in other qualities.

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What are three types of non-verbal communication?

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  • Body language
  • Eye contact
  • Facial expressions
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What is body language useful for?

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Enabling us to make quick and more accurate judgements about someone.

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Attribution

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The process by which people explain the causes of their own and other people’s behaviour

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Personal/dispositional attribution

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Explanation due to the characteristics of the person involved.
(Blame the person)

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Situational attribution

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An explanation due to factors external to the person involved such as the environment, task, luck and fate

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The fundamental attribution error

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The tendency to overestimate the influence of personal factors and underestimate the impact of situational factors on other people’s behaviour

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Saliency bias

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Where we attribute behaviour to personal characteristics because the person’s behaviour tends to be more noticeable than the situation in which it is occurring

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Just world belief

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The belief that the world is a fair place in which people generally get what they deserve and vice versa.

We blame people for their misfortunes

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Actor-observer bias/discrepancy

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Our tendency to attribute our own behaviour to external or situational causes, yet attribute others’ to internal factors.

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Self-serving bias

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When we take the credit for our successes but attribute our failures to the situation.

To protect self esteem or maintain a good image

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Individualist culture

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Where being an individual and independent is valued and encouraged

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Collectivist culture

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Achieving group goals is encouraged and prioritised over individual goals.

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Which culture is less likely to make the fundamental attribution error and the self-serving bias?

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Collectivist cultures

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Attitude

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An evaluation a person makes about an object, person, group, event or issue

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Tri-component model of attitudes

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Proposes that any attitude has three related components- affective, behavioural and cognitive components

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Affective component

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The emotional reactions or feelings an individual has towards an object, person, group, event or issue

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Behavioural component

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The way in which an attitude is expressed through our actions.

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Cognitive component

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The beliefs we have about an object, person, group, event or issue

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What are the limitations of the tri-component model?

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~A behaviour may not always reflect the person’s beliefs or attitudes

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What factors influence the consistency of attitudes and behaviour?

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  1. Strength of the attitude
  2. Accessibility of the attitude
  3. Social context
  4. Perceived control
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What factors influence the formation of attitudes?

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  1. Classical conditioning
  2. Operant conditioning
  3. Social learning
  4. Repeated exposure
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Classical conditioning

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A form of learning which occurs through repeated association of two different stimuli or events

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Operant conditioning

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Learning through repeating behaviour with a positive consequence and avoiding behaviour that has a negative consequence

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Modelling

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Modifying or adopting attitudes by observing other people

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Repeated exposure

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Being exposed to an object, person, group, event or issue repeatedly

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Mere exposure effect

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The increase in liking for an attitude etc as a result of being repeatedly exposed to it

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What is the primacy effect?

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Where the initial impression of a person is more influential than any later information obtained

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Stereotype

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A collection of beliefs that we have about the people who belong to a certain group regardless of their individual differences

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Why are stereotypes useful?

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Because they assist us in knowing how we should react to new people we meet

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What are some issues with stereotypes?

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~Based in inadequate info
~Lead to social stigma
~Lead to negative feelings for those who are stigmatised.
~Can lead to prejudice

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Ingroup

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The the group that you belong to or identify with

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Outgroup

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Any group you do not identify with

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Prejudice

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Holding a negative attitude towards the members of a group, based solely on their membership of that group.

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Herbert Blumer’s 4 characteristics of prejudice

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  1. Majority group is superior
  2. Minority don’t belong
  3. Majority is more powerful
  4. Majority is insecure
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Old fashioned prejudice

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Where members of the majority openly reject minority groups

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Modern prejudice

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More subtle and hidden forms of prejudice

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Discrimination

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Positive or negative behaviour that is directed towards a social group and its members

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Direct discrimination

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When someone is treated unfavourably because of a personal characteristic

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Indirect discrimination

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Where treating everyone equally can disadvantage someone because of a personal characteristic

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