Social Psych Flashcards
Attitude
Set of beliefs and feelings
Mere-exposure effect
more exposed, more you like it
Central route to persuasion
Content of message
Peripheral route to persuasion
Outside factors, superficial
Dognitive dissonance theory
People motivated to have consistent attitudes and bheaviors
Foot-in-the-door
Small request -> big
Door-in-the-face
Big request ->small
Norms of reciprocity
Tendency to give back to those who gave to us
Attribution theory
How people determine cause of observation-Dispositional, person, situation, stable, unstable
Harold Kelly
Consistency, Distinctiveness, Consensus
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Preconceived idea of others influence how we act around them
Fundamental attribution error
overestimate person > situation
False-consensus effect
Think more people agree with you
Self-serving bias
Take more credit for good outcomes > bad ones
Just-world bias
Karma