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37 Cards in this Set
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Social Psychology
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scientific field that studies behavior and thought in social situations.
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Social Neuroscience
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study of neural and biological basis of social processes.
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Multicultural Perspective
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cultural and ethnic factors that influence social behavior.
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Survey Method
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large numbers of people answer questions about their behavior.
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Theories
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efforts to answer "why?" and understand why events happen or processes occur the way they do.
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Schemas
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mental framework that helps mentally organize data of event or situations.
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Priming
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Stimuli helps increase availability of certain info from our memory. Triggers memory.
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Unpriming
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effect of schema won't decrease unless expressed in thought or behavior.
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Social Cognition
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how ppl internet, analyze and use info of the social world.
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Heuristics
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Rules of thumb. Effortless thinking, happens automatically.
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Representative Heuristic
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Similar to something else so we categorize it as the same.
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Availability Heuristic
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normal, common, we base our thought of something based on what we can remember about it (SUV example).
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Anchoring & Adjustment
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negotiation and settling for what we think is a good deal.
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Negativity Bias
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pay extra attention to negative things.
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Optimistic Bias
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see the world as rosy
Overconfidence Barrier Planning Fallacy |
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Affect & Cognition
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feelings and thoughts shape and affect each other.
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Mood Congruent Effect
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store and retrieve happy info when in happy mood, same with negative.
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Mood Dependent Effect
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remember and store things depending on what we learned when previously in that mood.
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2 Factor Theory of Emotion
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perception of situations can determine emotional reactions.
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Non-Verbal Communication
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unspoken language; facial expressions, body language, eye contact, tone of voice.
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Deception
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recognizing through non-verbal cues and its effects on social relations.
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Attribution
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seek info and draw inferences. Our efforts to understand the behaviors of others and why they act as they do.
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Kelley's Theory of Causal Attribution
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we blame others' behaviors on internal or external factors.
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Correspondence Bias OR
Fundamental Attribution Error |
we explain others' actions on dispositions even in presence of clear situational causes (the way they are).
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Solomon Asch (1946)
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"we look at a person and immediately a certain impression of his character forms itself in matter".
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Attitude Formation
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how attitudes develop.
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Social Learning
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process of getting and learning info, behavior or attitudes from others.
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Cognitive Dissonance
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inconsistency between attitude and behavior or between 2 or more attitudes.
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Risk Averse
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weigh losses more heavily than we weigh gains.
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Gender Stereotypes
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Stereotypes of traits and characteristics of men and women.
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Stereotypes
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theories guiding what we attend to and exterting strong effects on how we process social info (traits we think).
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Social Identity Theory
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perceiving the self as a member of a certain group and identifying with it (in-group vs out-group).
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Prejudice
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negative emotional responses based on group membership.
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Discrimination
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differential (usually negative) behaviors to different social groups.
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Modern Racism
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more subtle beliefs than blatant feelings of superiority. Minorites seek more than they deserve.
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Tokenism
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hiring based on group membership (usually go meet quota)
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Glass Ceiling
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barrier not allowing women from advancing to top level positions.
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