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A Beatle song used to illustrate the concept of "Self."
I me Mine
Kahnemann's "2 systems" [of thought]:
Automatic and
Autopilot
We _________ our social reality
construct
shortest Defintion of “critical thinking”
Willingness to admit you may have been wrong
"The sum total collection and pattern of the learned assumptions and internalized experiences that form the filter (or lens) through which you LITERALLY perceive and make judgements about the world"
Schemas
The ulitamte goal of Social Psychology
Social humility
The "core quote" that sums up social psyc:
confidence has no relationship to accuracy
According to the syllabus, whose class is this?
Our class
The "Schema Filter" operates...
Subconciously
"circle the wagons"
sometimes disconfirming information makes contary convictions even stronger
Social Intuitions are powerful, AND _____
perilous
A "collection of shared schemas"
Culture
A video / book we talked about in class:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Definition of Social Psychology How individiuals...
are influenced by the real or imagined prescence of others
Dr. Kirk is always advising that we increase our objectivity by.....
Thinking like an alien
A lot of people forget how much this feature shapes our social behavior.
Our shared evolution with other animals
Which world view is most likely to see life as a circle?
Eastern
A Heuristic can be defined as a...
rule of thumb
Social Psychology is applicable to....
Real life
A part of the instructions for our Schema assignment:
Do not use....
Personality variables
With regard to the reaising of children, Myers recommends navigative the land between gullibility and _______
Cynicism
Peter Gabriel's musical summary of the "Milgram Experiment:"
We do what we’re told
A common method of flag salute before the 1940's:
Bellamy pledge
an "alien" likely conclude Apes and humans are _____
From the same source
The general population tends to ignore or misunderstand this fact of human nature which was proven by Milgram and Zimbardo experiments:
Power of the situation
At one time, US law banned this...
Advertisements from lawyers
Which of these elements is associated with the Solomon Asch experiment?
Lines
The extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform showed groups of people lines and made some people give the wrong answer to see if the test subject would give the correct answer or conform.
The definition of "attitude" has a lot of similarities with the definition of this part-of-speech:
Noun
An old house in the country....a metaphor for the evolution of the brain
ramshakle brain
Which of these is a factor that Milgram manipulated to cause response variance in his experiment?
victims emotional distance
In class it was suggested that "D.A.R.E." didn't work because...
it was pure information
In the movie, "Experimenter," Milgram's stress and moral committment was symbolized by
an Elephant
"People in the habit of being immersed in diverse views are more likely to modify beliefs critically. "
Which researchers reached this conclusion?
Levitan and visser
According to Milgram, the "state" that causes most of the problems in the world.
Agentic state
An "attitude" typically includes: Cognition, Behavioral Intention, and ....
Emotion/Affect
A good quick summation of "Evolutionary Ecology."
Sperm are cheap
Milgram found that by simply adjusting experimental conditions, and nothing else, he could keep compliance within this predictable range:
0-93%
To be open, we should assume, that every person, is at least in SOME ways,
Our superior
Which of the following is a Milgram experiment?
Six degrees of seperation
Attitudes don't predict behavior very well....
Attitude-Behavior research problem
Evolutionary ecology would predict that....
Men by the drinks (a way to show that they can be good providers)
people conform to group norms when they are put in an ambiguous situation
Sherif autokinetic experiments
having a red dot and having people say if its moving and by how much or that its not moving but its an optical illusion
The shortest possible defintion of a group.
US
"Hell is to drift, Heaven is to ....
Steer
"the tendency to perform [simple] tasks better when other are present"
Social facilitation
Play it safe. Never engage in pursuits at which you are not accomplished.
The last of the list of advices for having an unhappy life
Associated with reduced effort in a "tug of war" experiment.
Ringleman Effect
for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases.
In terms of research quality, the data from the "Happiness" [Hell] handout can best be described as...
Correlational
"Apprehension" is an external blockage. "Distraction" by comparison
is an internal one
he "old fashioned" definition of "Prejudice" according to the field of Social Psychology:
To judge someone by group status, rather than individual status
According to the Social Psychological style of analysis, one can get the most accurate information by starting with the assumption that humans are
Social Creatures
"A motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups."
Social Dominance Orientation
caper emissarius, and an old fashioned excuse for prejudice....
Scape goat
comes from the old practice of putting all your sins on to a goat and then killing the goat
We under-estimate victimhood and over-estimate desert
"The tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therfore get what they deserve and deserve what they get"
Just world phenomenon
The worst type of "selective reasoning."
A Theory Looking for Evidence
fear that a personally-relevant stereotype might be true [subconsciously]; and therefore tread cautiously, especially in public
and thus suppresses performance
Stereotype threat
People who are prejudiced are more likely to act upon their beliefs if the person in question is closely representative of the stereotypes they have in mind:
Typicality Effect
A film clip we watched in class that included a critical thinking assignment:
Guess who’s coming to dinner
When we are making attributions about the behavior of others, we make internal attributions.
When we make attributions about out own behavior we make external attributions.
FAE
Fundamental Attribution Error
Which type of aggression aims to hurt someone's feelings or relationships?
Social Agression
According to Dr. Kirk, the first step in understanding the concepts behind "Evolutionary Ecology."
To think like an alien
The "center" of Sternberg's triangle:
Consummate love
Gupta (1985) found that love in arranged marriages
lasts longer than those in "choice" marriages
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