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Exam 1 Social Psych

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show scientific study of the way in which people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people.  
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show -Pro Castro vs. Anti Castro We tend to make internal attributions for other people's behavior and underestimate the role of situational factors  
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show -The Name of A Game -The Good Samaritan The effect that the words, actions, or mere presence of other people have on our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behavior. Social influence is stronger than personality/values/morals in many cases  
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show to understand human behavior, one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment: When behavior is followed by a reward it is likely to continue; when behavior is followed by a punishment it is likely to stop  
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Construal   show
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Naive realism   show
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Motives for construals   show
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show -Hazing in frats The need to feel good about oneself To protect yourself, you use self-justification  
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show -Healthy choice: Lucky Charms vs. Quaker Oats the need to be accurate  
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show -Kitty Genovese’s Murder + Witnesses to a Seizure The more people who witness an emergency, the less likely it is that any one of them will intervene  
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show Making sure that nothing besides the independent variable can affect the dependent variable  
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External Validity   show
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show -Prophecy from Planet Clarion Call to City: Flee The Flood method where researchers attempt to understand a group by observing from the inside, w/out imposing preconceived notions. Goal: understand the complexity of the group by observing it in action  
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Cognitive Dissonance   show
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show The psychological processes triggered by your experiment should be very similar to the processes triggered in real life.  
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Probability   show
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show -Prof. With Diff Personalities Mental structures that organize our knowledge of the social world. Influences the information people notice, think about, and remember Encompasses our knowledge and impression of: Other people Ourselves Social roles  
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show ranging from -1 to +1 A strong correlation coefficient is closer to 1, either negative or positive. -.70 is strong, and .70 is strong. For perfect correlation, (1.0 or -1.0) you can precisely predict one variable if you have the other.  
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Automatic Thinking   show
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show The extent to which schemas and concepts are at the forefront of people's minds and are therefore likely to be used when we are making judgments about the social world  
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3 Reasons something becomes accessible   show
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Priming   show
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show -Elementary Students "Blooming" an expectation or belief that can influence your behaviors, thus causing the belief to come true  
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show -Religion & Money the ability to pursue goals without conscious thought or intent. This can be achieved through a number of processes like priming  
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The Macbeth effect   show
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Judgemental Heuristics   show
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Availability heuristic   show
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show a mental shortcut that people use to make judgments and decisions based on how similar something is to a prototype or stereotype  
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Conjunction Fallacy   show
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Barnum Effect   show
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Analytic thinking style   show
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show more prevalent in Eastern cultures (collectivistic) Reasoning based on relationships between parts and family resemblance, not individual, specific features  
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show -Strong vs. Weak Arguments -Good Samaritan & Contradiction -Open-Ended Descriptions Eastern cultures are more tolerant to contradiction than Western cultures  
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show Thinking that is conscious and effortful often intentional and voluntary too, but not always  
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Planning Fallacy   show
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Counterfactual thinking   show
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Attribution theory   show
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show Infer a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the person (e.g., attitude, character, personality)  
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show Infer a person is behaving a certain way because of something about the situation. Assume most people would respond the same way in that situation  
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The Covariation Model   show
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We make choices about internal versus external attributions by using three pieces of information   show
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show The extent to which other people behave the same way toward the same stimulus as the actor does  
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show The extent to which one particular actor behaves in the same way to different stimuli.  
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show The extent to which the behavior between one actor and one stimulus is the same across time and circumstances It is difficult to make either an internal or external attribution when consistency is low  
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show -Attention in Conversation The seeming importance of information that is the focus of people's attention  
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Self-Serving Attributions   show
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Belief in a just world   show
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The “Bias Blind Spot”   show
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show -How Happy/How Sad Center Person  
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