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Social Psychology
Exam 2 Ch 5,6,7,13
Question | Answer |
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What culture identifies mostly with an independent self concept? | Western |
What culture identifies mostly with an interdependent self concept? | Eastern |
What gender identifies mostly with an collective interdependent self concept? | Men |
When gender identifies mostly with a relational interdependent self concept? | Women |
What is being able to recall information about others when it is easily accessible about yourself. | Self Schema |
What is finding reason for mood/thoughts | Introspection |
Is introspection a good way to explain our behavior? | No |
What is it called when a person views self through eyes of others and gains self concept? | Looking glass self |
How do we get to know who we are based on the looking glass self? | Imagine how we appear to others, Imagine the judgement of that appearance, develop self through judgements of others. |
What is it called when we evaluate one’s opinions and abilities by comparing oneself to others. | Social Comparison Theory |
In the Social Comparison Theory - with whom do we normally compare? | Anyone who is around |
What is a defensive tendency that people use as a means of self-evaluation? | Downward social comparison |
What is a tendency to compare self to others and believing self to be part of an important or prestigious group? | Upward social comparison |
What is it called when we identify with a group similar to the one we believe to belong to? | Social identity |
What is a social psychological technique in which an individual attempts to become more attractive or likeable to their target? | Ingratiation |
What is the act or practice of promoting one's own interests, profile, etc? | Self Promotion |
What is the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, esp. as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change? | Cognitive Dissonance |
When do people feel dissonance? | Dissonance results from performing an action that is discrepant from one’s (typically positive) self-concept |
What is it called when an individual utilizes internal motivation to justify a behavior? | Insufficient Justification |
What is people's tendency to attribute a greater value (greater than the objective value) to an outcome they had to put effort into acquiring or achieving. | Effort Justification |
This is the dissonance felt when a person lack sufficient external justification for having resisted a desired activity or object. This often results in the person devaluing the forbidden thing | Insufficient Punishment |
What is it when individuals over justify a choice that has already been made? | choice justification |
When does cognitive dissonance lead to lasting change? | small reward/small punishment/internal justification |
When does cognitive dissonance lead to temporary change? | Large reward/severe punishment/external justification |
- people are motivated to maintain the integrity of the self. The ultimate goal of the self is to protect an image of its self-integrity, morality and adequacy. | Self Affirmation |
What is a self-serving cognition whereby an individual associates themself with successful others such that another’s success becomes their own? | BIRGing |
What is Evaluations of people, objects, and ideas | Attitude |
What is the A in the ABC's of attitude? | Affect(emotion) |
What is the B in the ABC's of attitude? | Behavior |
What is the C in the ABC's of attitude? | Cognition(thoughts) |
What are the 3 parts of the who said what to to whom model? | source of the communication, the nature of the communication, and the nature of the audience. |
In the Elaboration Likelyhood Model what route is long lasting and influential? | Central |
In the Elaboration Likelyhood Model what route is short lasting and not influential? | Peripheral |
What is being able to recall the beginning of a list? | Primacy |
What is being able to recall the end of a list? | Recency |