The three components of the tricomponent conceptualization of attitude
What is Affect, Behavior, and Cognition?
100
Two theme of social psych
What is Importance of cognition OR
Power of the situation OR
Power of the person OR
100
Tendency to be more confident than correct
What is the Overconfidence Phenomenon?
100
Mental templates by which we organize our worlds
What is schemas
200
A theory that describes attitude change as occurring in order to reduce the unpleasant arousal people experience when they engage in a behavior that conflicts with their attitude or when they hold two conflicting attitudes
What is Cognitive Dissonance Theory
200
As the value of one variable increases, the value of a second decreases
What is negative correlation
200
Persistence of one’s initial conceptions even when the evidence on which you based your conclusion has been discredited
What is belief perseverance?
200
the two cultural "isms"
What is collectivism and individualism?
200
A phenomenon which refers to the ease with which we infer traits
What is Spontaneous trait inference?
300
The father of cognitive dissonance theory
Who is Festinger?
300
It may seem that social psychological research findings are obvious
What is hindsight bias?
300
A mental shortcut whereby people classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case
What is the representativeness heuristic?
300
Our tendency to see ourselves as having contributed more to an outcome than someone else
What is the egocentric bias
300
Fritz Heider (1958) is frequently referred to as the father of...?
What is the attribution process?
400
In the peg experiment, the response "I said the dull experiment was interesting. I had insufficient justification for doing so. Hmmm, maybe it was sort of interesting."
What is high dissonance?
400
Independent variables are manipulated and causal inferences can be drawn
What are main aspects of experimental research
400
the process by which people explain events, their own behavior, and the behavior of others.
What is an attribution
400
tendencies to see oneself favorably
What is the self-serving bias
400
Perceiving oneself as more likely to receive/attain positive life events and less likely to experience negative life events (Weinstein)
What is the optimistic bias
500
If you hear a lot of rock music and do not particularly dislike it, you will probably conclude that you do like it.
What is self-perception theory?
500
Ways we can deal with deception in experiments
What is informed consent and debriefing?
500
The tendency to believe that people’s behavior matches (corresponds to) their disposition
What is the fundamental attribution error or Correspondence Bias
500
What people do when they are unsure of future success