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Psychology SAC Flashcards

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Attitude

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A judgement that someone makes about an object, person, group, event, or issue.

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Affective Component

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A feeling or emotional reaction. E.g. Crying, stomping around.

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Behavioural Component

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The way we express our attitudes through action. E.g. Someone participating in recycling programs.

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Cognitive Component

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Beliefs and knowledge of the world used while forming attitudes. E.g. Believing it is essential to exercise regularly to maintain good health.

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Congruent

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All components line up (All negative, All positive)

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Incongruent

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Not all components line up.

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Halo/Horn Effect

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A positive or negative opinion is formed solely relying on initial information about a person, place, or thing.
E.g. When someone looks physically attractive and assumed to be kind, intelligent, and sociable.

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Personal Attribution (Internal Factors)

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A personal attribution is an explanation due to the characteristics of the person involved, such as their personality, attitude, motivation, mood, or effort.

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Situational Attribution (External Factors)

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Situational attribution is an explanation of behaviour due to factors associated with the situation the person is in.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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It is the tendency to overestimate the influence of personal factors and underestimate the impact of situational factors on other people’s behaviour.

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Self-serving Bias

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When judging ourselves, we tend to take credit for our successes and deny responsibility for failure.

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Saliency Bias

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The persons’ behaviour tends to be more salient than the situation in which it is occurring.

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Just-world belief

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Bad things happen to bad people and good things happen to good people.

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Actor-Observer Bias

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It is the tendency to attribute our own behaviour to external or situational factors, yet attribute others to internal person factors.

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Stereotype

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A generalisation about the personal characteristics of the members of a social group that can be positive or negative.

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Social Stigma

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Negative labels and attitudes associated with disapproval or rejection by others who are not labelled in that way.

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Discrimination

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Is a positive or negative behaviour towards a social group ad its members, based solely on being a part of that social group.

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Intergroup contact

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Prejudice can be reduced through intergroup contact between two groups who are prejudiced against each other.

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Extended contact

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Sustained or ongoing contact, either directly or indirectly over a period of time.

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Contact hypothesis

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Certain types of direct contact between members of different groups can reduce prejudice.

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Superordinate Goal

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A goal that cannot be achieved by any one group and overrides other existing goals which each group might have.

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Cognitive Dissonance

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An unpleasant psychological state that occurs when people become aware there is inconsistency among their various beliefs, attitudes, or other ‘cognitions’.

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Ways to reduce cognitive dissonance:

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  1. Change your cognition or belief.
  2. Change your behaviour to suit your cognition.
  3. Add new cognitions.
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Cognitive Interventions

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A term to describe the variety of therapeutic approaches designed to address psychological problems at the cognitive level, by the activation and analysis of thoughts, experiences, senses, and memories.

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Heuristic

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A strategy for solving a problem or making a decision that is based on experience with similar types of problems but cannot guarantee a correct outcome.

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Availability Heuristic

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Involves making a judgement based on how easy or difficult it is to bring specific examples to mind.

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Representativeness Heuristic

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Involves categorising a person, object, event, or anything else by judging how closely it matches our idea of a typical member of the category.

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Affect Heuristic

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Involves making a judgement that is influenced by the emotion being experienced at the time.

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Cognitive Bias

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A systematic error of judgement and faulty decision-making, of inaccurate or unreasonable conclusions.

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Anchoring Bias

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Tendency to rely on and believe in the first piece of information you receive.

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Attentional Bias

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Cognitive bias, where our perception is affected by our current train of thought.

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False Consensus Bias

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The human tendency to overestimate the extent to which people are like them in terms of sharing beliefs, characteristics, and behaviours and how they are shared to others.

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Hindsight Bias

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The tendency only after an event has occurred to overestimate the extent to which the outcome could have been foreseen.

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Misinformation Effect

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When our memory from past events are altered after exposure to misleading information, there is a tendency of the information you learned after the event to interfere with the original memory of the event.

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

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A person has little to no knowledge about a subject, thinks of themselves as an expert of that topic.

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Optimism Bias

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The tendency to overestimate the likelihood of experiencing positive events and underestimate the likelihood of experiencing negative events in the future.

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Aggregate

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A collection of people in one location who have no obvious social structure and minimal shared purpose.

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Group

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Any collection of two or more people who interact and can influence each other and share a common purpose.

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Status

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Refers to the importance of a person’s position within a group

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Power

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Refers to an individual’s ability to influence others’ thoughts, feelings, or behaviours.

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Reward Power

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The ability to give positive consequences, or to remove negative consequences, in response to a specific behaviour.

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Coercive Power

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The ability to give negative consequences or to remove positive consequences, in response to a specific behaviour.

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Legitimate Power

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The status of the individual within the group gives them the authority to exercise power over those with less status or authority.

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Referent Power

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Individuals identify with or want to be liked by this person.

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Expert Power

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Having special knowledge or skills that are needed.

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Informational Power

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Having resources or information that are not readily available elsewhere.

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A role

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A role is the behaviour adopted by an individual or assigned to them that influences the way they function or act in different situations. It is the ‘part’ that a person plays in life.

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Role Expectations

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Refers to the idea that a person who is adopting a role is expected to behave appropriately for that role by other members of society.

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Group think

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A way of thinking by individual members of a group characterised by a strong tendency to seek agreement when decision-making or problem-solving.

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Group polarisation

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It is the tendency of an individual group member, following group discussion, to shift their initially held views to a more extreme position.

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Social Comparison

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It is the process of evaluating our attitudes and abilities by comparing ourselves to other people.

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Deindividuation

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It is characterised by reduced self-consciousness, inhibition, feelings of personal responsibility and inner restraint that can occur when in a group or crowd.

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Conformity

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It is the tendency to adjust our thoughts, feelings, or behaviour in ways that are in agreement with those of another individual, group or with social pressure.

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Factors that affect conformity.

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Size of the group.
Unanimity.
Informational Influence.
Normative influence.
Social loafing.
Culture.

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Factors affecting obedience.

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Social Proximity.
Legitimacy of authority figures.
Group pressure.

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Prejudice

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A negative attitude towards another person or social group, formed in advance of any experience with that person or group.

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What is person perception

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refers to the mental processes used to create interpretations and make conclusions about others.

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What is attribution

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The process we use to explain behaviour.

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Group norms

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Group norms are the expectations and behaviours associated with a social group, such as a nationality, an organisation, or a sports team.

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social loafing

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A person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when working alone.

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What are four ways to reduce prejudice, discrimination, and stigma?

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-Mutual interdependence
-Equality of status
-Cognitive intervention

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Ingroup

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An in-group is a group to whom you, as a person, belong, and anyone else who is perceived as belonging to that group.

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Outgroup

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An out-group consists of anyone who does not belong to your group.

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What is the social identity theory

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Suggests that individuals tend to categorise other people on the basis of characteristics such as educational attainment as a means of self-comparison. Can also lead to in group favouritism and individuals identify more strongly with their own group and show bias against other groups.

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Culture

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Refers to the way of life of a particular society or community that sets it apart from other societies and communities.

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Individual Cultures

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In an individualistic culture, people are considered “good” if they are strong, self-reliant, assertive, and independent.

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Collective cultures

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Collectivist cultures are where characteristics like being self-sacrificing, dependable, generous, and helpful to others are of greater importance.

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What are the positive/negative influences of social connections?

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Wide-ranging research suggests that strong social ties are linked to a longer life. As opposed to loneliness and social isolation are linked to poorer health, depression, and increased risk of early death.

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What are the positive/negative influences of social comparison?

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Comparing yourself to others in a healthy, positive way can potentially benefit your self-esteem or inspire you toward healthy self-improvement. Negatively, social comparison that takes on a more negative form can lower self-esteem and even increase your risk of depression.

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What are the positive/negative influences of information access?

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The positive effects include improved efficiency, enhanced communication, global reach, customer experience, and collaboration. However, negative impacts, including job displacement, increased competition, security risks, cost, and over-reliance on technology.

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What is self-determination theory?

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Suggests that all humans have three basic psychological needs—autonomy, competence, and relatedness—that underlie growth and development.

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What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?

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Intrinsic motivation comes from an internal desire to accomplish a goal, while extrinsic motivation comes from external rewards and praise.

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Anti-conformity

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A deliberate, self-conscious refusal to comply with accepted social standards.

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What are the factors influencing anti-conformity?

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-Independence
-Psychological reactance

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Non-Scientific ideas

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Non-science encompasses a wide range of human activities, such as religion, philosophy, art, and literature, that are not based on scientific methods and may rely on other sources of knowledge.

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