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field of social psychology that focuses on how we think about other people and how those cognitions influence our behavior toward them

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social cognition

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a tendency to respond positively or negatively to a certain idea, person, object, or situation

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attitude

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three components of an attitude

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affective, behavioral, cognitive

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component of an attitude: how a person feels toward something; the emotional component

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affective component

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component of an attitude: the action a person takes toward something

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behavioral component

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component of an attitude: how a person thinks about something

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cognitive component

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factors that determine the match between attitudes and behaviors

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attitude specificity, strength, and salience

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forms of learning that contribute to an attitude

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  • direct contact
  • direct instruction
  • interaction with others
  • vicarious conditioning / observational learning
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the process of changing a person’s beliefs or actions through argument, pleading or explanation

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persuasion

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factors that contribute to the effectiveness of a persuasive effort

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  • source
  • message
  • target audience
  • medium
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hypothesis that states that people respond to the facts of a message by central-route or by peripheral-route processing

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elaboration likelihood model

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processing of a persuasive message that attends to the content of the message

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central-route processing

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processing of a persuasive message that attends to clues outside the message of the content

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peripheral-route processing

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a sense of discomfort or tension that occurs when a person’s behavior does not correspond with her attitudes

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cognitive dissonance

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three ways to reduce cognitive dissonance

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  • change attitude
  • change behavior
  • form new attitudes
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he famously studied and described cognitive dissonance by paying people different amounts of money to lie about an experiment

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Leon Festinger

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area of the brain that is activated when people make a decision to reduce cognitive dissonance

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left frontal cortex

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the forming of the first knowledge that someone has about another person; it includes assigning the person to categories and drawing conclusions from that about what a person is likely to do

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impression formation

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a belief that one set of characteristics is shared by all members of a particular categor

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stereotype

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the basis for which we place people into categories; the personality traits that we assign to certain groups

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implicit personality theories

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a test that measures the implicit attitudes that makes up each person’s implicit personality theory

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Implicit Association Test (IAT)

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our tendency to come up with possible explanations when we see someone performing an action that we don’t understand

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attribution

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type of attribution in which we assume that the cause of the behavior comes from external sources

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situational cause

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type of attribution in which we assume that the cause of the behavior comes from within the individual

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dispositional cause

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our tendency to overestimate the influence of a person’s internal characteristics on her behavior, and to underestimate the influence of the situation

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fundamental attribution error

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cognitive bias that involves attributing our own successes to internal characteristics, and blaming our failures on outside forces; allows us to protect our self-esteem

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self-serving bias