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17 Cards in this Set
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Heuristic
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Time saving shortcuts that reduce complex judgments to simple rules or thumb.
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Primacy Heuristic
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Tendency for first information received to carry more weight than later information in ones overall impression
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Availability Heuristic
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Tendency to judge frequency/probability of an event in terms of how easy it is to think of examples
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Anchoring Effect
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Tendency to be biased toward the starting value or "anchor" in making quantitative judgments.
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Stability Effect
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Tendency for early impressions of individual not to be overriden by subsequent information.
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False Consensus Effect
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Tendency to overestimate how common one's own attitudes, opinions, and beliefs are in the general population. (Availability Heuristic)
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Salience Bias
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Activated events will come to seem as if they occur more frequently.
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Intra-Attitudinal Ambivalence
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Condition in which the evaluative tendencies of components of an attitude disagree with one another. ex-smokers: affect=positive, cognition=negative
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Mere Exposure
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Tendency to develop more positive feelings toward attitude objects the more we are exposed to them
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Mere Exposure
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Tendency to develop more positive feelings toward attitude objects the more we are exposed to them
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Classical Conditioning
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Learning though association, when a newutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that naturally produces an emotional response
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Self-Perception Theory
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We infer our internal states, such as attitudes, by observing our behavior.
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Theory of Planned Behavior
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Theory that people's conscious decisions to engage in specific actions are determined by their attitudes toward the behavior in question, the relevant subjective norms, and their perceived behavioral control.
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Central Route
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Persuasion via deliberative process. Thoughtful analysis of arguments, leads to specific focus on argument quality.
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Peripheral Route
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Persuasion via spontaneous process. INvolves superficial processing of arguments, leads to special focus on cues outside of argument qualitiy.
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Psychological Reactance
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Direct defiance, directed at the source of the attempted retriction on our freedom.
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Cognitive Dissonance
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Feeling of discomfort caused by performing an action that is inconsistent with ones attitudes. A bad experience with free choice=increased liking
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