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Unit 1: Social Psychology Flashcards

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the scientific attempt to explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings

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Social Psychology
(Allport, 1954)

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What is the person-situation debate?

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explanation of Individual behavior (personality/values/interests) and situational (social norms/expectations) that influences decision-making

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long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel and behave in consistant ways

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Personality

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What trait?
high: inventive/curious
low: consistent/cautious

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Openness to Experience

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What trait?
high: efficient/organized
low: careless/irresponsible

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Conscientiousness

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What trait?
high: Outgoing/energetic
low: solitary/reserved

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Extraversion

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What trait?
high: friendly/compassionate
low: critical/distrusting

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Agreeableness

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What trait?
high: Nervous/temperamental
low: calm/stable

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Neuroticism (emotional stability)

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what are the three arguments that Walter Mischel proposed regarding personality and Assessment in 1968

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  1. Unimpressive upper limit to predictive value of personality
  2. Situations are more improtant than traits to explain behavior
  3. No use to measure personality, as people display no consistency in behavior.
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an individual’s tendency to attribute another’s actions to their character or personality, while attributing their own behavior to external situational factors outside of their control

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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environmental forces that cue desirable behaviors

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Situational Strength

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Behavior as a product of both the individual and situation

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Interactionism

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Why does the Fundamental attribution error occur?

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  1. Cognitive ease
  2. Information asymmetry
  3. Self-serving bias
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Identity concealment reduces personal accountability, increasing frequency of deviant behavior

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Deindividuation

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Relatively stable feeling/belief that is direct toward an object

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Attitude

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What makes up an attitude?

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Affect
Behavior
Cognition

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the importance of an attitude as assessed by how quickly it comes to mind.

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Attitude Strength

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degree of alignment between the components of the tripartite model of attitudes

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Attitude Consistency

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desire for consistency between thoughts, statements, and behaviors

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cognitive dissonance

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General state of feeling, not identified with a particular stimulus and not sufficiently intense to interrupt thought processes.

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Mood

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Feeling often experienced in reaction to an event, that can ultimately interrupt thought process

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Emotions

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Reflect on one’s own behavior and experiences

Attribute behavior to attitude toward understanding current attitude standing
Issue of equifinality

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Self-perception theory

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Theory the use of environmental cues, including social interactions, to determine one’s attitude standing

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Social information processing theory

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the process by which a person or entity attempts to influence another to change their beliefs or behaviors

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Persuasion

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the normative expectation of mutual exchange
Reciprocation
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tendency to seek alignment in behaviors, beliefs, and attitude
Consistency
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desire to align behavior with the behavior engaged by others
Social Validation
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increased liklihood to be persuaded by those we like or admire
Liking
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increased likelihood to comply based on perceptions of competence or expertise
Authority
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tendency to assign higher values to items perceived as less available
Scarcity
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reminder to individuals that they are likely to encounter a persuasive situation. -allows opportunity to develop counterarguments ahead of the influence attempt
Forewarning
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build defenses against persuasion by mildly attacking the attitude position -provide examples of arguments and defeses prior to influence attempt
Inoculation
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unfair negative attitude toward a social group
Prejudice
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overgeneralization about a group or its members
Stereotypes
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unjustified negative behaviors toward members of outgroups based on their group membership
Discrimination
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Attitudes and beliefs that we have about a person or group on a conscious level.
Explicit Bias
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Uncoscious attitudes that lie below the surface, but may influence our behaviors
Implicit Bias
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Assessment intended to detect subconscious associates between mental representations of objects in memory
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
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How does "traditional" and "contemporary" relate to our understanding of implicit and explicit prejudice?
Traditional prejudice tends to be explicit bias and contemporary prejudice tends to be implicit bias.
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How do we reduce "traditional" forms of prejudice?
Emphasize norms that prejudice is wrong and involve direct persuasive strategies. changing/diluting stereotypes by presenting counter-stereotypic or non-stereotypic information about group members.
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How do we reduce "contemporary" forms of prejudice?
Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. intergroup processes, such as intergroup contact and social categorization and identity, are alternative, complementary approaches.
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the prediction that increased intergroup contact will reduce prejudice
Contact Hypothesis
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spontaneous cognitive process by which we place individuals into social groups; often results in "us" vs "them"
Social categorization
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social categorization method that reduces salience of intergroup boundaries
Decategorization
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Social categorization method that alters nature of group boundaries
recategorization
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positive self-concept related to one's identity
positive distinctiveness
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Intergroup contact is particularly when groups consider what 4 things?
1. Have equal status 2. Are under cooperative (vs. competitive) conditions 3. Are allowed opportunities to interact socially 4. Operate under egalitarian norms
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relationships between people that are characterized by loving, caring,commitment, and intimacy
close relationships
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what are examples of close relationships?
Romantic relationships friendships family relationships
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the level of attraction between people which leads to the development of platonic or romantic relationships
interpersonal attraction
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tendency for people to be attracted to those who are similar to themselves
Similarity attraction paradigm
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tendency to prefer stimuli (including but not limited to, people) that we have seen frequently
Mere exposure effect
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degree of felt responsibility for a relationship partner's welfare
communal strength
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what are the three conditions necessary for a causal relationship between gratitude expression and communal strength perception?
1. Demonstrate covariance (cause/effect 2. Demonstrate temporal precedence 3. Disqualification of alternative explanations
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a survey procedure that inclueds all measures within a single survey administration
Cross-sectional survey
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a survey procedure that involves separating measurement of measures across time
Longitudinal Survey
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Why is it important to have close relationships?
1. Relatedness as a fundamental human need 2. self-esteem driven in large part by perceptions of acceptance 3. Inadequate social support is linked to reduced mental and physical wellbeing
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a knowledge representation of one's beliefs about oneself -cognitive and descriptive in nature
Self-concept
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the extent to which individuals have different and independent ways of thinking about themselves
Self-complexity
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Does complexity associate with more positive or negative outcomes, as it acts as a buffer in times of threat?
Positive outcomes
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positive or negative feelings we have about ourselves
Self-esteem
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Interventions may fail when the messaging threatens people's sense of self. When feeling affirmed about ourown value in one domain, we may be better able to handle a message that challenges us in another.
Self-affirmation theory
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Individual belief in one's cpapacity to reach specific goals or accomplish particular tasks
Self-efficacy
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Individual belief as to whether the recommended action will achieve the intended outcome
Response-efficacy
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any behavior designed to increase another's welfare, particularly when actions provide no benefit to those who perform them
Altruism
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behaving to behenfit a genetic relative's chances of survival at some cost to one's own chances
Kin altruism
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helping based on the normative expectation of mutual exchange
reciprocal altruism
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helping someone from a place of empathy, knowing no self benefit will come
Pure altruism
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phenonmenon wherein individuals are less likely to help someone in need in the presence of others
Bystander effect
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assumption that others will take action, leading to personal inaction
Diffusion of responsibility
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legal protection to people who give reasonable assistance to those in need (some form in all 50 states)
Good samaritan laws
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impose penalty for those who do not help in circumstances of danger
Duty to rescue (more often duty to report in US)
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