Social Psychology Test 2 Gsu

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The content of the self; that is , our knowlegde about who we are.

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Self-concept

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The act of thinking about ourselves

Back 2

Self-awareness

Front 3

The process whereby people look inward and examine their own thoughts, feelings, and motives

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Introspection

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The idea that when people focus their attention on themselves, they evaluate and compare their behavior to their internal standards and values

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Self-Awareness Theory

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Theories about the causes of of one's own feelings and behaviors; often we learn such theories from our culture (Ex. "absence makes the heart grow fonder")

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Causal Theories

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Attitude change resulting from thinking about the reasons for on'es attitudes; people assume their attitudes match the reasons that are plausible and easy to verbilize

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Reasons-Generated Attitude Change

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The desire to engage in an activity because we enjoy it or find it interesting, not because of external rewards or pressures

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Intrinsic Motivation

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The desire to engage in an activity because of external rewards or pressures, not because we enjoy the task or find it interesting

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Extrinsic Motivation

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The tendency of people to view their behavior as caused by compelling extrinsic reasons, making them underestimated the extent to which it was caused by intrinsic reasons

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Overjustification Effect

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Rewards that are based on how well we perform a task

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Performance-contingent rewards

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Rewards that are given for performing a tast, regardless of how well the task is done

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Tast-contigent rewards

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The idea that emotional experience is the result of a two-step self-perception process in which people first experience physiological arousal and then seek an appropriate explanation for it

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Two-factor Theory of Emotion

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The process whereby people make mistaden inferences about what is causing them to feel the way they do

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Misattribution of Arousal

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The idea that we learn about our own abilities and attitudes by comparing ourselves to other people

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Social Comparison Theory

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Ad rive or feeling of discomfort, originally defined as being caused by holding two or more inconsistent cognitions and subsequently defined as being caused by performing an action that is discrepant from one's customary typically positive

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Cognitive Dissonance

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Dissonance aroudes after making a decision, typically reduced by enhancing the attractiveness of the chosen alternative and devaluating the rejected alternatives.

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Postdecision Dissonance

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The tendency for individulas to increase their liking for something they have worked hard to attain

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Justification of Effort

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The dissonance aroused when individuals lack sufficient external justification for having resisted a desired activity or object, usually resulting in indiviuals' devaluing the forbidden activity or object

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Insufficient Justification

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The reduction of dissonance by chanding something about oneself (Ex. one's attitude or behavior)

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Internal Justification

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A reason or an explanation for dissonant personal behavior that resides outside the individual (Ex. in order to recieve a large reward or avoid a severe punishment)

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External Justification

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Stating an opinion or attitude that runs counter to on'es private belief or attitude

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Counterattitudinal Advocacy

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A long-lasting form of attitude change that results from attempts at self-justification

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Self-persuasion

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The potential for dissonance reduction to produce a succession of self-justifications that ultimately result in a chian of stupid or immoral actions

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Rationalization Trap

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Two or more people who interact and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to influence each other

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Group

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The implicit or explicit rules a froup has for the acceptable behaviors, values, and beliefs of its members

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Social Norms

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Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave

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Social Roles

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Qualities of a group that bind members together and promote likeing between members

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Group Cohesiveness

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The tendency for people to do better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated

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Social Facilitation

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The tendency for people to do worse on simple tasks but better on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance cannot be evaluated

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Social Loafing

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The loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people are in a crowd, leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts

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Deindividuation

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A kind of thinking in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important then considering the facts in a realistic manner

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Groupthink

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The intimacy and affection we feel when we care deeply for a person but do not experience passion or arousal in the person's presence

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Companionate Love

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An intense longing, we feel for a person, accompanied by physiological arousal; when our love is reciprocated, we feel great fulfillment and ecstasy, but when it is not, we feel sadness and despair

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Passionate Love

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The idea that different kind of love consist of varying degrees of three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment

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Triangular Theory of Love

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The idea people's feelings about a relationship depends on their perceptions of the rewards and costs of the relationship, the kind of relationship they deserve, and their chances for having a better relationship with someone else

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Social Exchange Theory

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The idea that people are happiest with relationships in which the rewards and costs experienced and the contributions made by both parties are roughly equal

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Equity Theory