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Social Psychology

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Real, imagined or implied prescence of others on our thoughts, feelings and behviours

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Social Cognition

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the process of attending, interpreting and remembering information about ourselves and others

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Impression Formation

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Is the mental process of developing judgments about other people

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How do we form impressions of others

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  1. Primacy Effect
  2. Stereotyping
  3. Elements of physical appearance
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Primacy Effect

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  • An overall impressions about new people is influenced by the first information received about them
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Stereotyping

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  • Social Schemas and clusters of ideas used to categorise people into types
  • normal cognitive process about expectations of members of a specific group
  • May lead people to misperceive others
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Impression Formation

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  • based on elements of physical appearance

- evolutionary perspective says historically physical attractiveness was associate with reproductive potential

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Impression Management

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The intentional steps we take to influence others opinions of us

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Attributions

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Inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others behaviour, own behaviour

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Internal Attribution

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Ascribe the cause of behaviour to personal dispositions, traits, abilities and feelings

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External Attribution

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Ascribe the causes of behaviour to situational demands and environmental constraints

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Dispositional Attribution

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Attributing Behaviour to some internal cause like personality or attitude

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Situational Attribution

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Attributing behaviour to external causes or situational factors

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Bias in Attribution

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  • Judgement about ourselves compared to judgment about others
  • protects one’s self concept
    1. Self Serving Bias
    2. Fundamental Attribution Error
    3. Just world bias (defensive bias)
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Fundamental Attribution Error

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  • When we make judgeent about others

- tendency to attribute others success to our own internal factors

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Self Serving Bias

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  • Judgement about self
  • attribute own success to internal variables
  • attribute failures to external factors
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Just World Hypothesis

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  • People want to beleive the world is fair
  • To preserve this belief they blame victims of abuse or injustice for their situation
  • do not wish to shed blame on perpetrators to preserve this scenario
  • known as defensive attribution
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Attitudes

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  • learned emotional response to a stimulus or situation
  • formed through experiences and the attitudes of those around us
  • works on a continuum
  • not always consistent
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Explicit Attitudes

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  • Attitudes we hold consciously and can readily describe

- social psychologists mostly focused on explicit attitudes

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Implicit Attitudes

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  • covert attitudes that are subtle automatic responses
  • usually have little conscious control on theses
  • measured by implicit association test
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Implicit Association Test

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  • IAT

- Computer administered measures how quickly people associate chosen pairs of concepts

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Generational Identity

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shared experiences of a person’s age group

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How do Attitudes form and change

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  • Learning Theory
  • Persuasion techniques
  • Cognitive Dissonance
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Attitude to Formation and Change - Observational Learning

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  • Other peoples attitudes rub off on each other

- Studies show parents and children tend to similar political attitudes

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Attitude to Formation and Change - Classical Conditioning

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  • Emotional responses created through classical conditioning
  • known as evaluative conditioning
  • Our emotions create associations to attitudes
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Attitude to Formation and Change - Operant Conditioning

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  • Agreement from others strengthens our attitudes
  • disagreement may weaken our point of view
  • Dependent on the consequences of change
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3 factors to cause someone to change their attitude

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  • Status of persuader
  • Clarity of message
  • Ability to Understand the message
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Factors to cause someone to change their attitude - Status of persuader

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  • Status of persuader
      • someone of high status may be considered successful and thus knowledgeable
  • Clarity of message
      • A clear concises and accurate
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Factors to cause someone to change their attitude - Status of persuader

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Someone of high status may be considered successful and thus knowledgeable

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Factors to cause someone to change their attitude - Clarity of Message

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A clear concises and accurate

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Factors to cause someone to change their attitude - Clarity of Message

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A clear concise and accurate argument should be put forward

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Factors to cause someone to change their attitude - Ability to understand message

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Individuals being persuaded must be capable of understanding the message

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Factors to cause someone to change their attitude - Celebrity attributes

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If a celebrity seems
- credible
- expert
- trustworthy
- likable
- physically attractibe
this will be persuasive in stimulating attitude change
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Cognitive Dissonance

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  • related cognitions contradict each other
  • creates unpleasant state of tensions
  • tension motivates people to reduce their dissonance
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Cognitive Dissonance Theory

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  • Leon Festinger 1957
  • Inconsistency among attitudes fosters attitude change
  • Contrary cognitions between belief and bheavour
    ↓
    Cognitive Dissonance
    ↓
    Attitude change
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What increases Dissonance

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Inconsistency between action and beleif

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What decreases Dissonance

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Change in belief or action that causes change of perception or action

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Strategies to decrease Dissonance

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  1. Change in behaviour
  2. Change in attitude
  3. Explaining away inconsistency
  4. Denial of responsibility
    5 Reduction of importance of tension

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