Chapter 10 - The External World Flashcards
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Two types of defenses against persuasive messages
Supportive defenses - providing people w/ info supporting the belief that is about to be attacked
Refutational defenses - providing people w/ arguments against the beliefs and rebuttals against these arguments (better b/c allows counter-argument formation, vaccination inoculation example)
Meta-Cognitive Model
Assumes people form beliefs about the validity of their own thoughts and thus may not see their resistance of a prior message as being legitimate or correct (ex. if they feel they were influenced by an illegitimate source or weak argument) leading to argument uncertainty
Meta-Cognitive Model Application:
- Certainty in thoughts
- Uncertainty in thoughts
- Resistance to future persuasion
2. Susceptibility to future persuasion
Irrelevant messaging study: Irrelevant car commercial (more x less info) then rate department store ad
Ps thought they had received more info and had more favourable attitudes when the first message contained little info
Prior low/high credibility before moderately credible source
Prior low: ^ perceived credibility of moderate source
Prior high: decreased perceived credibility of moderate source
Transportation
process by which people become immersed into narrative world, losing access to some real-world knowledge making them less able to counter-argue persuasive arguments in story
Conditions for ^ transportation (2)
(1) personality and (2) narrative promote lower self-consciousness; first-person, in-group
Balance Theory (Heider)
People seek harmony among their thoughts about an attitude object; how people manage inconsistency b/w attitude and thoughts about another’s
Relationships of Balance Theory (3)
Triangle with P, OP, AO
- The individual’s own attitude toward an object
- Another person’s attitude toward an object
- The individual’s own attitude toward the other person
Attraction Effects
We prefer situations where we like another person vs dislike them regardless of attitudes toward the object
Agreement Effects
We like situations where we agree with another person (share same attitude) better than disagreeing w/ that person regardless of attitudes toward that person (affected by time and motivation)
Social relationships and felt ambivalence study: Ps attitudes and Parents’ attitudes toward AOs
Results: Greater participant-parent differential predicted feelings of felt ambivalence
Vicarious Dissonance, Sakai Study: Boring task w/ partner telling a lie that it was interesting
When P had to come with partner, P had more positive attitude toward task
Feeling powerful before and after receiving a message
BEFORE: validates existing attitude, reducing attention to appeal (low power before, more persuaded by strong v. weak arguments)
AFTER: validates the thoughts they generated during appeal (high power after, more persuaded by strong v. weak arguments)
Personalized Post-it Notes
Lead to reciprocity (completion of survey) vs. note on survey itself or blank post-it
Vicarious dissonance, tuition fee ^: Listen to other P object to increase and then reminded of choice (or not) before giving a speech supporting it
If Ps identified with their college (in-group*) were more persuaded when their colleague gave the speech after being reminded of their choice
Group Polarization Effect
individuals’ attitudes become more extreme than the group’s average view after group discussion
Why does group polarization occur? (2)
- Group members give each other new reasons to hold attitude
- Want to make self look more committed than avg group’s position
Peers or Parents and fictitious sexual passage rating
Rated passage higher if thought about peers
Normative Influence and Informational Influence
- Normative influence and a desire to be liked
2. Informational influence and a desire to be accurate
Two types of norms
Descriptive Norms - describe actions of others (what people actually do); stronger connection to accuracy goals
Injunctive Norms - prescribe or proscribe actions (what people should do); stronger connection to goals related to interpersonal harmony
Norms studies
- Canoeing through trash river
- Petrified Wood signs
- Completion of effortful control task
- Model (litters or walks by) x environment (dirty or clean)
- B/c descriptive norm led to more littering
- injunctive norms led to less theft
- decreased injunctive (goal conflict) but not descriptive (accuracy) norms
- Most littering in dirty environment where someone litters and least in clean environment where someone litters
Broken Windows Theory
Signs of disorder induce further disorder and petty crime (littering tag in graffiti environment, stealing money in dirty area)
Minority Influence on Asch’s Line Judging Study
When only 2 of 6 Ps were confederates, Ps accuracy still dropped to 92%
