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Social Psychology Flashcards

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Social Cognition

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Process of analyzing and interpreting events, other people, oneself, and the world in general

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Attributions

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The process a person goes through to infer other’s motives or attentions

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What do attributions do?

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  • help predict and control environment
  • help determine thoughts, feelings, desires
  • influence expectations for the future
  • Impact on own performance
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Friz Heider proposed…

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Dispositional attributions, situational attributions

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Dispositional attributions

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Causes for behavior that originate within the person

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Situational attributions

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Causes of behavior that originate in events, or situations outside of the person

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Harold Kelley proposed that 3 facts be taken into account when making attributions

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Consnsus, Consistency, and Distinctiveness

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Who proposed 3 factors when making attributions?

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Harold Kelley

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Consensus

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The degree to which other people, if in the same situation, would behave similarly to the observed person

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Consistency

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Whether the observed person behaves the same way when faced with the same set of circumstances

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Distinctiveness

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Observed person acts differently in different types of situations

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Internal attribution

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Behaviour is due to a person’s only personality

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External attribution

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Behaviour is due to factors of the environment

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Self-serving bias

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When one feels their positive behaviours are dispositional and their shortcomings are situational

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Fundamental attribution error

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The tendency for people to overestimate dispositional factors and underestimate situational one when examining someone else’s behaviour

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Actor-observer bias

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Tendency to attribute our own behaviour to situational causes

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Attitude

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The pos or neg evaluation of people, objects, and ideas

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What are the 3 dimensions of attitude?

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Cognitive, emotional, behavioural

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Cognitive dimension

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thoughts and beliefs

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Emotional dimension

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feelings, like and dislike

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Behavioural dimension

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How beliefs and evaluations are demonstrated

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Cognitive dissonance

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A state of mental discomfort that comes from two person’s beliefs or between beliefs and behaviour

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Who proposed cognitive dissonance?

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Leon Festinger

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The elaboration likelihood model is a theory of…

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persuasion

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What are the two vital routes in attitude change?

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Central, peripheral

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Central route (attitude change)

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Depends on effective, informed communication

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Peripheral route (attitude change)

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Emotional, superficial evaluations of a message

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Prosocial behaviour

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behaviour that benefits someone else but offers no obvious benefit to the person performing

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Altruism

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Helping hen there is no discernable reward

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Egoism

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Acting when it will benefit the self

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Collectivism

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Acting when it will benefit the group

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Principlism

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Acting to uphold moral principles

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Bystander effect

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As the number of people present increases, the less likely a person is to help

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Social Facilitation

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A change in behaviour when people are in the presence of others

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Social loafing

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a decrease in individual effort when working with a group

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Groupthink

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Mob mentality type shit

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Group polarization

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Tendency to make more extreme decisions as a group than one would individually

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Deindividuation

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The loss of distinctive personality in a group

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foot in the door

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Asking a small favor then increasingly larger favors

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Door in the face

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Asking for something outrageous and then something smaller

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Low ball technique

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Obtaining a commitment and then raising the cost of the commitment

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The basis for social influence lies in…

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reciprocation, liking, scarcity, and authority

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Obedience

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Compliance with orders of another person or group

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