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Social Psy
Attitude
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/01/2011

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Scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others
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Social Psychology
Term
Evaluations of a particular person, behavior, belief, or concept
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Attitude
Term
how are attitudes formed, maintained, and changed?
Definition
Message source
Characteristics of the message
Characteristics of the target
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People who are swayed in there judgements by logic,merit, and strength of arguments uses what?
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Central Route Persuasion
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Occurs when people are persuaded on the basis of factors unrelated to the nature or quality of the content of a persuasive message
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Peripherial route processing
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Contradictory thoughts, believing that something is not interesting but with little justifiction changes one's mind
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Cognitive dissonance
Term
The activity on first impressions and attraction demonstrate?
Definition
the order o presentation of information about a person can affect first impression.
Term
A pro football player lose a playoff game, we fomulate an initial explantion,
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Attrubition Process
Term
Tendency to exaggerate the importance of dispostional causes and minimize the situational causes.
Definition
Fundamental attribution error
Term
A member of a group dissenting view perventing conformity
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Social supporter
Term
Change in behavior or attitudes brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standards of other people
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Conformity
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Who pioneered conformity?
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Solomon Asch (1951) Study
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Ingenious measure of prejudice that permits a more accurate assessment of people’s discrimination between members of different groups
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Implicit Association Test
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Somewone that oversimplify the world a share trait amonst this group?
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Sterotypes
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