essay 2 vocab words

Question 1

7. attitudes

Answer 1

mental representations that summarize evaluations of a group, person, or thing

Question 2

7. mastery needs

Answer 2

accuracy

Question 3

7. connectendess needs

Answer 3

social relationships

Question 4

7. attitude functions

Answer 4

knowledge, instrumental, social identity, impression management

Question 5

7. cognitive information

Answer 5

facts and knowledge about the attitude object

Question 6

7. affective information

Answer 6

emotions and feelings about the attitude object

Question 7

7. behavioral information

Answer 7

knowledge about past, present, and future experiences with interactions with attitude object

Question 8

8. cognitive dissonance

Answer 8

feelings of discomfort and arousal associated with inconsistency in attitudes and behaviors

Question 9

8. insufficient justification

Answer 9

attitude change to reduce dissonance by behavior that cannot be attributed to external reward or punishment

Question 10

9. groupthink

Answer 10

when decision making is impaired by the desire to reach consensus

Question 11

9. informational influence

Answer 11

privately conform because they believe group norms reflect reality

Question 12

9. normative influence

Answer 12

process norms are privately accepted to maintain/achieve social connectedness

Question 13

10. descriptive norms

Answer 13

what group of people think, feel, or do; what they are actually doing

Question 14

10. injunctive norms

Answer 14

what you believe a group of people are thinking, feeling or doing

Question 15

13. hostile aggression

Answer 15

aggression driven by anger due to insult or threat to self esteem

Question 16

13. instrumental aggression

Answer 16

aggression driven by mastery needs, means to an end

Question 17

13. color blind ideology

Answer 17

racism that allows us to deny uncomfortable difference in culture

Question 18

14. true altruism

Answer 18

helping other with no expectations for reciprocation or personal rewards

Question 19

14. prosocial behavior

Answer 19

behavior to help others

Question 20

14. steps for prosocial behavior

Answer 20

1. reduce ambiguity
2. increase internal attribution
3. teach helping norms
4. activate prosocial norms
5. infuse responsibility
6. promote identification with those that need help

Question 21

7. knowledge function

Answer 21

way attitude contributes to mastery by organizing, summarizing and simplifying experience with attitude object

Question 22

7. instrumental function

Answer 22

way an attitude contributes to mastery by guiding our approach to positive objects and avoidance of negative objects

Question 23

7. social identity function

Answer 23

way an attitude contributes to connectedness by expressing important self and group identities and functions

Question 24

7. impression management function

Answer 24

way an attitude contributes to connectedness by smoothing interactions and relationships