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Social psychology Flashcards

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Social Cognition

Social cognition

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How social information is acquired, organised and used

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social cognition

Prototypes

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A cognitive representation of a category

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Social cognition

Exemplar

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Specific instance they encounter

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Social Cognition

Schemas

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‘sets’ of related cognitions ~ person, role and script

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Social cognition

Stereotype

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Widely shared, simplified generalisations about members of a social group

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Attributions

Attributions

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The reasons behind behaviour

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Attribution

Correspondence interference

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Infer behaviour is linked to a disposition

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Attribution

Acheivement attribution

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When making attribution about achievement there are 3 main pieces of information ~ locus, stability and controllability

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Interpersonal attraction and relationships

Interpersonal attraction

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Evaluation one person makes of another along a dimension that ranges from strong liking to strong disliking

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Interpersonal attraction and relationship

Relationships

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Regular social encounters over periods of time

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Person Perception

Person perception

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A process by through we gauge others’ temorary states ~ such as their emotions, intentions and desires

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Person Perception

Impression formation

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The process by which observers integrate various sources of information about others’ self-presentation into a unified judgement

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Person Perception

Illusory Correlation

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Assuming relationships between variables in the world

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Self and identity

Self

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A person’s essential being that distinguishes them from others

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Self and identity

Identity

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The fact of being who or what a person is

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Self and identity

Self concept

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A construct that refers to an individual’s perception of self in relation to any number of characteristics

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Self and identity

Self awareness

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An individual’s awareness of oneself

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Self and identity

Self esteem

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The value someone places on themselves

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Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination

Prejudice

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Unfavourable attitude towards a social group and its members

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Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination

Discrimination

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Usually negative beheaviour or action towards an individuals or group due to their group membership

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Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination

Scapegoat

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Aggress against another without fear

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Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination

Displacement

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Transferring negative feelings of one thing onto another

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Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination

Social sources of prejudice

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Unequal status, Social identity, Frustration-aggression hypothesis and Social dominance theory

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Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination

Cognitive sources of prejudice

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Stereotypes, percieved similarities and differences and illusory correlatoon

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Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination

Attitudes

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A psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluationg a particualr entity with some degree of favour or disfavour

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Compliance, conformity and obedience

Compliance

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Comply with another person’s requests

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Compliance, conformity and obedience

Conformity

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Conforming to a group norm

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Compliance, conformity and obedience

Informational influence

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Need to be right

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Compliance, conformity and obedience

Normative influence

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Need to be liked

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Compliance, conformity, obedience

Obedience

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Obey commands

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Language and communications

Communication

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Transfer of meaningful informatiob from one person to another

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Language and communications

Language

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A system of sounds that convey meaning because of shared grammatical and semantic rules

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Language and communications

Linguistic determinism

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The langauge we use determines the way in which we view and think about the world

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Language and communications

Linguistic relativity

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The distictions noted in one langauge may be unique to that language

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