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Unit 1 (Ch1-4) Flashcards

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1
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In what way do we construct our own social reality?

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Our interpretation of events matter. “To have a good day, have a good day.”

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Social intuitions are ______, but sometimes _____.

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Powerful; Perilous

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Broadly speaking, what is intuition?

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Our trained unconscious mind (not in the freudian sense)

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Social influences shape our _____.

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Behavior (we care what others think)

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What other than social influences shape our behavior?

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Attitudes and Dispositions (internal forces)

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Social behavior is ______ rooted.

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Biologically; social neuroscience subfield

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Difference between Sociology and Social Psychology

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The level of analysis. Individual vs. Group.

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What are the 2 criticisms of social psychology mentioned in the book?

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1) It is common sense (trivial)
2) It is dangerous to manipulate

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Mundane realism

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The degree to which an experiment matches real life

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Self-Esteem

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Our sense of self-worth

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What’s Lawrence’s critique of self-esteem?

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One’s self-esteem depends on the day. Might be better to measure how reactive one is to good or bad events

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Collectivist vs. Individualist (Self-esteem)

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Collectivist: more context-specific
Individualist: more steady, more personal; more individual conflict (more divorces), uses social comparison to boost self esteem

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Planning Fallacy

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The tendency to underestimate how long it’ll take to complete a task

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Affective Forecasting

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Predicting future emotions

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Impact bias

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The tendency to overestimate the length or intensity of future states of emotion

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What’s illusion of self-analysis?

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When we analyze reasons we feel the way we do, we tend to make worse judgements.

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Dual Attitude System

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Our implicit attitudes often differ from explicit ones. (gut reaction differs to thought-out attitude); leads to self-report issues

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What’s the motivating power of self-esteem?

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Seeing others succeed. Friends threaten self-esteem more than strangers.

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Narcissism

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A disorder of overly thinking of self. When threatened, a narcissist will be aggressive.

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Terror Management Theory

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People tend to be self-protective when reminded of their mortality. People become more stringent and less open-minded!

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Self-Efficacy

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An individual’s belief of ability to complete a task.

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Self-esteem vs. Self-efficacy

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Self-esteem is self-worth (what you think of your own value). Self-efficacy is how confident you are to complete something.

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Self-serving bias

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We evaluate ourselves as better than we are.

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Self-serving attributions

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We deflect negative attributions off ourselves (and to something external)

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Unrealistic optimism

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Predicting a future outcome to be more favourable than an objective standard. Most are disposed to optimism.

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What does illusory optimism lead to?

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Vulnerability

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Defensive pessimism

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An adaptive type of pessimism (sees what can possibly go wrong and makes an effective remedy)

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False consensus effect

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The tendency to believe that others think like we do (making us feel validated)

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False uniqueness effect

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The tendency to think our good behaviors are unique. (ex: 10 commandment data study)

30
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Self-handicapping

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We handicap ourselves to attribute failure to external factors

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Self-presentation

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How people attempt to present themselves to control how others view them

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Self-monitoring

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Ability to regulate self-presentations to match social situations (social chameleons)

33
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What are the twin-truths of thinking about self?

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Pride is perilous, but positive thinking is important.

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Priming

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Activation of associations (unconsciously or consciously) before another stimulus is introduced

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Embodied Cognition

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Abstract psychological concepts become physiological (eg. hard, cold, etc.)

36
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Overconfidence

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Being more confident than correct. Possibly to make us feel better about our decisions.

37
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Confirmation Bias

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We pay more attention to things that confirm our beliefs

38
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Heuristics

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Mental Shortcuts

39
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Representativeness Heuristic

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Stereotypes; someone is part of group because they look like them. Ignores base-rate info.

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Availability Heuristic

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Availability in memory = likely. Paradoxically, rare things are more memorable.

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Counterfactual Thinking

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“if only..” (silver medal smile less than bronze)

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Illusory Correlation

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Perception of a correlation when there is no correlation (regression to avg)

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Belief Perseverance

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Maintaining beliefs even when there’s contrary evidence (due to confirmation bias)

44
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How confirmation bias relates to memory

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We remember confirming information.

45
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Misinformation Effect

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Post-event information change our memory of an event

46
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Attribution Theory

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how we explain others’ behavior to ourselves

47
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Dispositional Attribution

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Attributing behavior to people’s inherent characteristics (unfavorable reaction)

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Situational Attribution

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Attributing behavior to the situation (situational reaction)

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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We over-attribute others’ behavior to traits rather than situations

50
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Spontaneous Trait Attribution

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A dispositional attribution made automatically based on something else.

51
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Under what circumstances (positive/negative) are dispositional/situational more common?

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Negative –> dispositional
Positive –> situational

52
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy

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Something comes true as a result of expectation. Problems in experimenter bias

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Behavioral Confirmation

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A form of self-fulfilling prophecy; you behave in a way that causes others to confirm expectations (in class, it’s what you hear –> confirm expectation; therapy example)

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Attitudes

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Feelings influenced by beliefs that predispose us favorably or unfavorably to things

55
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Are attitudes a good predictor of behavior? Vice versa?

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No. Behavior predicts attitudes well. (eg. donating blood)

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When do attitudes predict behavior?

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When other influences on behavior are minimal, when an attitude is specific to a behavior, and when the attitude is salient or potent.

57
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Implicit Association Test

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Measures attitudes or beliefs unable to report (system 1); implicit biases by using reaction time.

58
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Theory of Planned Behavior

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Attitudes, Norms, and Perceived Control shape intention and then behavior

59
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How does behavior affect attitudes?

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Attitudes follow behavior. There are mental aftereffects of behavior. Killing begets killing (insects). Speed dating example

60
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Role Playing

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Saying becomes believing (Zimbardo prison study).

61
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Self-presentation theory

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Impression management. We desire to make a positive impression by doing what we’re supposed to.

62
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Cognitive Dissonance Theory

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Reduce dissonance by changing how we think (it’s either think or behave. but we behaved already). Assumes people want to be consistent internally and externally

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Insufficient justification

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Engage in behavior that’s contrary to beliefs when there’s small external justification (needs more internal justification). Part of cognitive dissonance theory.

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Self-perception theory

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We change attitudes due to self-observation. Facial-feedback and overjustification effects related

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