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social psychology
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the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others
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attribution processes
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how do people us attributions to explain behavior
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person perception
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the process of forming impressions of others
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social schema
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organized clusters of ideas about categories of social events and people
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stereotypes
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widely held beliefs that peoplehave certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group
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illusory correlation
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occurs when people estimate that they have encountered more confirmations of an association between social traits than they have actually seen
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ingroup
outgroup |
a group that one belongs to and identifies with
a group that one does not belong to or identify with |
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attributions
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inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behavior , and their own behavior
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internal attributions
external " |
ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings
ascribe the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints |
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Kelly's covariational model
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based on the assumption that people attribute behavior to factors that are present when the behavior takes place and absent when it does not
consider consistency, distinctiveness, and consensus |
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consistency
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is the actor's behavior in a situation the same over time?
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distinctiveness
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is the person's behavior unique to the specific entity that is the target fo the person's actions
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consensus
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do other people in the same situation tend to respond like the actor
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have studies supported kelly's model?
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yes mostly, but people are not as deliberate as he makes them out to be, judgements are often colored by illogical biases
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fundamental attribution error
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refers to observers' bias in favor of internal attributions in explaining others' behavior
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defensive attribution
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tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way
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self-serving bias
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the tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors
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individualism
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involves putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships
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collectivism
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involves putting goup goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the group one belongs to
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how does individualism and collectivism relate to patterns of attribution
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collectivist cultures are less prone to the fundamental attribution error and to the self-serving bias (exhibit self-effacing bias instead)
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interpersonal attraction
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refers to positive feelings toward another
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matching hypothesis
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proposes that males and females of approximately equal physical attractiveness are likely to select each other as partners
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reciprocity
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involves liking those who show that they like you
partners are especially happy when they idealize one another |
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passionate love
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complet absorption in another that includes tender sexual feelings and the agony and ecstasy of intense emotion
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companionate love
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warm, trusting, tolerant affection for another whose life is deeply intertwined with one's own
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sternberg's expansion of companionate love
intimacy commitment |
refers to warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship
an intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise |
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attitudes
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positive or negative evaluations of objects of thought
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3 types of components in attitudes
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cognitive, behavioral, affective
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cognitive
affective behavioral components |
attitude made up of beliefs that people hold about the object of an attitude
attitude consists of the emotional feelings stimulated by an object of thought consists of predispositions to act in certain ways towards an attitude object |
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attitudes vary in:
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strength, accessibility, and ambivalence
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determinants of attitude strength:
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importance, vested interest, knowledge and information
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why don't attitudes lead directly to behavior?
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may contradict common norms to act on an attitude
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four parts of persuasion:
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source, receiver, message, channel
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source factors
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credibility: expertise, trustworthiness,
likablity: physical attractiveness, similarity |
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message factors
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fear appeal vs. logic
one vs two sided arguments repetition: validity effect (repeating a statement causes it to appear to be more valid) |
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do appeals to fear work?
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yes, if they actually raise fear
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receiver factors
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personality
expectation preexisting attitudes: disconformaion bias (scrutinizing arguments which go against existing attitudes) intelligence |
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learning theory
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classical conditioning can create affective components (pairing celebrities and products)
operant conditioning: agreement from others about an attitude reinforces it observational learning: another person's attitudes may rub off on you |
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dissonance theory
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inconsistency among attitudes propels people in the direction of attitude change (paid to tell others that the experiment was interesting, those paid less later said it was more interesting than those who were paid more)
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effort justification
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if you work hard and the reward sucks you'll say the reward was better than it really was (women had to read oscene passages in order to get into a discussion on sexuality then the discussion was boring)
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is dissonance supported?
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yes, mostly, people need different levels of cognitive consistency
E. Aronson-believes this occurs only when it is between self-concept and one's behvior Steel and J. Aronson-occurs when people behave in a way that threatens their sense of self worth |
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Bem's self-perception theory
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infer their attitudes from their behavior (as opposed to the traditional view in which behaviors extend from attitudes)
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elaboration likelihood model
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2 routes:
central people carefully ponder content of message peripheral depend on nonmessage factors (the source for example) |
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conformity
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occurs when people yield to real or imagined social pressure
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Asch
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lines, in unambiguous stimuli people resist conformity, though they still do
once one person breaks the conformity, subject is much more likely to also do so |
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obedience
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form of compiance that occurs when people follow direct commands, usually from someone in a position of authority
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milgram's studies
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obedience, shocking another person for mistakes (65% administers 30 levels of shocks)
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group
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consists of two or more individuals who interact and are interdependent
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4 things most groups have
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roles, norms, communication structure, power structure
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bystander effect
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people are less likely to provide needed helf when they are in groups than when they are alone
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social loafing
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reduction in effort by individual when they work in groups as compared to when they work by themselves
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group polarization
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occurs when group discussion strengthens a groups's dominant point of view and producs a shift toward a more extreme decision in that direction
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groupthink
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occurs when members of a cohesive group emphasize concurrence at the expense of critical thinking in arriving at a decision
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group cohesiveness
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refers to the strength of the liking relationships linking gorup members to each other and to the group itself
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is groupthink more likely if there is higher cohesiveness?
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Janis claims that it is, but critics claim that it reduces it
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