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Chapter 17 Attitudes and social cognition Flashcards

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Attitude

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an association between an act or object and an evaluation

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Attitude strength

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the durability and impact of an attitude on behaviour- influenced by attitude importance and attitude accessibility

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Attitude importance

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the personal relevance of an attitude and the psychological significance of that attitude for an individual

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Attitude accessibility

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the ease with which an attitude is activated or comes to mind

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Persuasion

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deliberate efforts to change an attitude

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Central route

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method of persuasion that involves inducing the recipient of a message to think carefully and weigh the arguments

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Peripheral route

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a method of persuasion that appeals less to rational and thoughtful processes than to automatic or emotional ones

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Elaboration likelihood model

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the model of persuasion that proposes that knowing how to appeal to a person requires figuring out the likelihood that he/she will think much about the arguments

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First impressions

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can have an important influence on subsequent info processing

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Cognitive dissonance

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occurs when a person experiences a discrepancy between an attitude an a behaviour or between an attitude and a new piece of info

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Conservation psychology

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involves studying the reciprocal relationships between human and nature with a focus on changing attitudes and behaviours to encourage conservation of the environment

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Stereotypes

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characteristics attributed to people based on their membership of groups

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Social cognition

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refers to the processes by which people make sense of themselves, others and social relationships

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Identity

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sense of who we are, influenced by social cognitions e.hg environment and role we play in life

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Attribution

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process of inferring the causes of one own and others behaviours and mental states

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Racism

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prejudicial attitudes towards members of a particular ethnic group on the belief that ones race is superior

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Self-handicapping

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a process by which people set themselves up to fail when success is uncertain to preserve their self-esteem

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Prejudice

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judging people based on negative stereotypes

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Discrimination

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behaviours that follow from negative attitudes towards particular group members

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Self-consistency

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motive to interpret info that fits the way one already see’s oneself

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Self-esteem

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the degree to which a person likes or respects themselves

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Self-representation

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mental models or representations of the self

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Self

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the person including, mental processes, body and personality characteristics

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Biases in social info processing

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fundamental attribution error, self-serving bias

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Fundamental attribution error
the tendency to assume that other peoples behaviour corresponds to their internal states rather than external situations
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Self-serving bias
the tendency to see ourselves in a more positive light than we deserve
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Self-schema
a schema about the self that guides the way we think about and remember info relevant to ourselves
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Social psychology
examines the influence of social processes on the way people think, feel and behave
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Downside to high attitude accessibility
its potential to interfere without ability to detect changes in the attitude object
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Cognitive complexity
the intricacy of thoughts about different attitude objects
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Positive affect
a general category of emotions related to feeling good
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Negative affect
a general category of emotions related to feeling bad
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Ideal self
the self people would like to be
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Ought self
the self they feel they should be
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Implicit attitudes
associations between attitudes, objects and feelings about them that regulate thought and behaviour unconsciously and automatically
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Attitudinal coherence
the extent to which an attitude is internally consistent
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Attitudinal ambivalence
the extent to which a given attitude object is associated with conflicting evaluative responses- positive and negative dimensions that are relatively independent
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self-presentation
process by which people try to control the impressions that others form of them
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Actual self
how they really are
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Attitude inoculation
building up a receivers resistance to an opposing attitude by presenting weak arguments for it or forewarning of a strong opposing persuasive appeal
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Persuasion
deliberate efforts to change an attitude
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Components of persuasion
source, message, channel, context and receiver
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The elaboration likelihood model of persuasion
proposes that knowing how to appeal to a person requires figuring out the likelihood that he or she will think much about the arguments
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Dissonance reduction
reducing an uncomfortable emotional state reinforces an attitude change- occurs automatically without conscious reflection
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Self-perception theory
individual infer their attitudes, emotional and other internal states by observing their own behaviour
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First impressions
the initial perceptions of another person that affects future beliefs about that person
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Halo effect
tendency to assume that positive qualities cluster together
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What is beautiful is good
people who are physically attractive are assumed to possess a number of other favourable qualities
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
when feeling attractive leads to behaviours perceived by other as attractive
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stereotypes
characteristics attributed to people based on their membership of a specific group
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Prejudice
judging people based on stereotypes
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Discrimination
behaviours that follow from evaluations or attitudes towards members of a particular group
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Racism
specific form of prejudice based on a set of norms that their is a biological hierarchy that deems one ethnic group superior to another
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Polyculturalism
that attitude that all cultures are interrelated and dynamic with loose boundaries
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Authoritarian persona
a tendency to hate people who are different- individuals tend to have a dominant father and submissive mother
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Social identity theory
suggest that people derive part of their identity from the groups to which they belong
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IN-GROUPS
people perceived as belonging to a valued group
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OUT-GROUPS
people perceived as not belonging to a valued group
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Superordinate goals
goals requiring groups to cooperate for the benefit of all
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Augmentation
increasing an internal attribution for behaviour that has occurred despite situational demands
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Discounting
when people downplay the role of one variable, because they know that others may be contributing to the behaviour in question
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External attributions
attributions to the situation
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internal attributions
attributions to the person
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Intuitive scientists
the concept of people as lay scientists who use intuitive theories, frame hypotheses and collect data about themselves
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Attribution
the process of inferring the causes of ones own and others mental states and behaviour
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Assimilation
acculturation that involves absorption into the dominant culture and abandonment of the traditional
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Attributional style
a persons habitual manner of assigning causes to behaviours or events
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3 types of attribution info
consensus, consistency and distinctiveness
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Consensus
the way most people respond
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Consistency
the extent to which a person always responds in the same way to the same stimulus
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Distinctiveness
refers to the individuals likelihood to respond this way to many different stimulus
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Ostracism
people are excluded, rejected or ignored
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3 elements of attribution
people seek to understand why certain events happen, people attribute the outcome to a cause, people base their future behaviour on the attributions they make
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BIRG
basking in reflected glory
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3 step process to making attribution
categorise the behaviour you've observed, categorise the persons personality and this may discount the attribution
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fundamental attribution error
tendency to assume that other peoples behaviour corresponds to their internal states rather than their external situations
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confirmation bias
tendency to seek out info that confirms your own hypotheses
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self-presentation
people attempt to control the impressions that others form of them
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self-concept
concept of self- guides the way we think about and remember info about ourselves
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self-presentational predicaments
instances which our desires to influence the impressions people form of us fail
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self-monitoring
individual differences in the degree to which people manage their impressions

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