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Social Flashcards

1
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Actor-observer effect

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attributions of neg events - personality factors for others, situational factors for self

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Attribution

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Internal/external
Dispositional/situational
Stable/unstable
Specific/global

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3
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Central trait

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Greater impact than others on impression

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4
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Balance Theory

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attitude change when two people have attitudes toward that same object

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Barnum effect

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someone finds personal meaning in a statement that could apply to anyone

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Behavioral Confirmation

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people are motivated to confirm expectations others have on them, but not negative

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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emtoions and bodily reactions occur at the same time

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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modifying congition when committed to something inconsistent with belief

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Congruity Theory

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making predictions about which attitude changes on top of Balance Theory

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10
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deindividuation

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suspending one’s self-identity and adopting identity of group

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Diffusion of responsibility

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best chances of receiving help when only 1 bystander, the more, the lower chances

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12
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Effectiveness research

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studies psychotherapy as it is actually practiced

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Efficacy research

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tight experimental control maximizes interal validity

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14
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effort justification

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spending sig time on unworthy task

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15
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effort justification

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spending sig time on unworthy task

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fundamental attribution error

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attributes others’ failures to dispositional causes and underestimating situational variables

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Hedonic bias (self-serving bias)

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people attribute own successes to internal factors and failures to external factors

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idiosyncrasy credits

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tolerated for bering deviant from group norms; earned by initially conforming

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19
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illusory correlation

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tendency to overestimate slightly or un-correlated variables

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informational social influence

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pressure to conform based on the assumption that other person has more info

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21
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inoculation

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given a mild argument against one’s belief and the belief strengthens (like vaccines)

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insufficient deterrence

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does not perform desirable beh because of small deterrent

23
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insufficient justification

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performs undesirable beh for small inducement

24
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interactional justice

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informational justice & interpersonal justice

25
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James-Lange Theory

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emotions result from perceiving bodily reactions or reponses

26
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Kelley’s Personal Construct Theory

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we perceive the world according to what we expect to see

27
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Lewin’s field theory

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beh is a function of the interaction between person and environment

28
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Milgram’s study

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providing shocks, power and obedience

29
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normative social influence

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pressure to conform based on a need for approval and acceptance by group

30
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Overjustification Hypothesis

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people loss interest after performing them for incentives; intrinsic -> extrinsic

31
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post decisional dissonance

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faced with two good choices

32
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post decisional dissonance

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faced with two good choices

33
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primacy effect

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person who speaks first remembered best in long gap situations

34
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principle of parsimony (Occam’s Razor)

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best explanation is simplest and requires the fewest assumptions

35
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reactance

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feel pressured by a message and increases resistance to persuasion

36
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reactance theory

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not comply with request when freedom is threatened

37
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recency effect

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person who speaks last remebered best in smaller gap situations

38
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reference group

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people we admire, like and want to resemble

39
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Rosenthal effect (self-fulfilling prophecy)

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cues by the experimenter that results in subjects conforming

40
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Schacter’s 2-factor theory

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emotions result from internal (hypothalamus and limbic sys) and external (context) cues

41
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Self-Enhancement Theory

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people are motivated to think favorably of themselves and behave for others to think so too

42
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Self-perception Theory

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people infer their attitudes by observing their beh

43
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self-serving bias

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attributes own success to disposition factors and failures to situational factors

44
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Self-verification Theory

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people are motivated to confirm their self-concept, even if negative

45
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sleeper effect

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forgetting the source of communication over time, but remembering the message

46
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Social exchange theory

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choosing most favorable reward to cost ratio as partner

47
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social facilitation

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task performance increase in presence of others (taske simple or familiar)

48
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social identity theory

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own’s group more attractive and belittling outgroups

49
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social inhibitation

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task performance decline in presence of others (task novel or complex)

50
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social loafing

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don’t work as hard when part of a group

51
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Symmetry Theory

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considering intensity of relationship on top of Balance Theory

52
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Whitbourne’s self-concept model

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identity assimilation, identity accommodation, identity balance

53
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Learned helplessness

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A learned expectation leads to depression

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