Social Psychology
After taking appropiate learning skills the brain shifts from
controlled to automatic thinking
The fundamental attribution error is known as the
correspondence bias
What types of arguyments work best to change an affectively based attitude
emotional appeals
Emotions often signal as to our true attitudes meaning,
emotions often inform our "How do i feel about it" heurstic
Put yourself in my shoes and can you spare an hour to help me provoke
empathy
Couples in happy marriages make
external attributions for negative behaviors and internal aattributions for positive behaviors
What is crital in physical attraction
familarity
Self esteem preserving process
interal attributions for success
couples in unhappy marraiges make
internal attributions for negative behaviors and external attributions for positive behaviors
Counterfactural thinking is controlled process becasue
it is effortful and conscious
one inevitable consequence of being the traget of relentless prejudice is
lower sel-esteem
Name the four componets of self
self control, self esteem, impression mangement and self knowledge
We fall prey to fundemental attribution error because
the actors situation is invisable to us, while the actors behavior is obvious
postive phychology movement is a reaction to
the emphasis on weakness and disease in psychology
in communal relatinships partners
assess equity over the long hual, rather than day by day
Decesion making based on more people living in an area
base rate information
The logical outcome for distressed couples making external attributions for postive behavior and internal attributions for negative ones is that the relationship is going to
become less satisfying
discrimination is a ____ componet of negative attitudes towards a group of people
behavioral
What are the three reasons schemas become accessible
chronic accessibility due to experience; a current goal; priming
task contingent reward is to as preformance contingent rewards are
completed. did well
An ingroup can be
almost any group
We live in a patriacrical society so many men feel
ambivalence towards women
the iraq war shows a danger when pollitical leaders
are counght up in a cycle of self-justification
Schemas are most like
a hypothesis
hillimori is
a japenses person who is withdrawn from all social interaction
Sterotyping is a way of simplyfying the complex information around us adn is sometimes
adaptive
Cultrue specific norms that dictate emotional expressions are called
display rules
Misattribution of arousal is defined as the process of
mistaken inferences abiut what is causing them to feel the way they do
when people are asked to rate attractiveness of faces, the faces they most prefer
most resemmble their own
Consequences of possessing an independent self, takes to extremes
narcissim
when people conform in attitudes or behaviors in order to be acceppted and liked is shows
normative social influence
the function of cognitively based attitudes is
object appreisal
Self-Perception theory
observing our own behaviors, just as we would observe others behaviors
because dissonance reduction processes are mostly unconscious people
often overestimate how badly negative feedback may affect them
Forming impressins easily comes from engaging in automatic analysis of out enviroment based on
our past experiences and knowledge of the world
why are highly accessible attitides mroe likely to predict spontaneous behaviors
peopple are more likely to be thinking of accessible attutides when they are called on to act
Internal attributions is to the
person
Affectively based attidtudes tend to stem from any souce except
rational appreisal of cost and benefits
Counterfactural thnking turnes into
rumination
External attributions are to the
situation
Culture can be considered an all-engaging higer level
situational varible
According to Rusbults investment model of relationships
some women stay in abusive relationships becasue they have a high investment in the relationship and poor alternitaves
