Social Psychology Final Exam Study Guide 2022 with
complete solution
Social Psychology ->> study of how people think about, influences, and relate to one
another.
Social Thinking ->> how we perceive ourselves and oth
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Social Psychology Final Exam Study Guide 2022 with
complete solution
Social Psychology ->> study of how people think about, influences, and relate to one
another.
Social Thinking ->> how we perceive ourselves and others, what we believe, judgments
we make and out attitudes (react differently because we think differently)
social relations ->> prejudice, aggression, attraction and intimacy, helping
Social influences ->> culture, pressures to conform, persuasion, groups of people
(shape our behavior) * Locality, educational level, subscribed media, culture, ethnicity.
theory ->> integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events
impression management ->> process people use to control perceptions about oneself
(we play to an audience)
Experimental Research ->> studies that seek clues to cause- effect relationship by
manipulating one or more factors controlling others
Belief persistence ->> persistence of ones initial conceptions, as when the basis for
ones belief is discredited but an explanation of why the belief might be true survives.
Overconfidence ->> tendency to be more confident that correct- can overestimate the
accuracy of someone's beliefs.
Conformation Bias ->> tendency to search for info that confirms ones preconceptions.
What does Conformation Bias explain? ->> self variation and why our self images are
so strong
Attitude ->> favorable or unfavorable evaluation reaction towards something or
someone .
students attitude toward cheating bore little reaction to the likelihood of their cheating -
>> attitude hardly predicted their varying behaviors
When do peoples attitudes predict behavior? ->> -social influences on what we say are
minimal.
-attitudes are specific to the behavior are ermined
- attitudes are potent
* self awareness, forge strong attitudes through experiences, and peoples other
influences on behavior are minimalImplicit ->> biases are pervasive, people differ in implicit bias, and people are often
unaware of their implicit bias
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