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| attitude change |
1. shifting reference group (ppl you spend time with
2. operant conditioning (rewards/punishment for attitude)
3. avoid internal inconsistency
4. observation
5. persuasion |
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| egocentric bias |
-tendency to believe that other people believe the way you do |
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| prejudice reduction |
-attitudes last longer if self-persuaded
-discussions work better than lectures |
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| attitude |
-predisposition to respond to something in a certain way about what you feel, emotions evoked, and what you believe |
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| method of loci |
-relating to location |
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| jigsaw classroom |
-attempt to make classroom a more student centered area by making groups of mixed people and traits and grade depends on what the "group" does as a whole
-prejudice reduced |
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| unamity |
-when opinion is unanimous there is more conformity |
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| compliance |
-doing something you are told to do due to social presures |
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| conformity |
-changing on your own due to social pressure |
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| fundamental attribution error |
-the tendency, in explaining other people's behavior, to overestimate personality factors and underestimate the influence of the situation |
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| collectivism |
-focus on the group
-"takes a village to raise a child" |
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| individulaism |
-emphasis on individual goals, more personal freedoms and privacy |
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| social norms intervention |
-give information and explain how it happens
-compare real norm to perceived norm in hope of changing behavior and attitudes |
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| bystander intervention |
1. ambiguity
2. attractiveness of person in need
3. familiarity of surroundings
4. presence of others
5. direct request |
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| ethnic separtists |
-have a strong sense of ethnic identity but weak feelings of acculturation |
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| ethnic identity |
-a person's identification with a religious of ethnic group |
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| diffusion of responsibility |
-in groups, the tendency of members to avoid taking action because they assume that others will |
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| self-serving bias |
-the tendency, in explaining one's own behavior, to take credit for one's good actions and rationalize one's mistakes |
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| attribution |
-the theory that people are motivated to explain their own and other people's behavior by attributing causes of that behavior to a situation or a disposition
-explanation for why people behave the way they do |
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| norms |
-rules that regulate social life, including explicit laws and implicit cultural conventions |
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| decay |
-the theory that information in memory eventually disappears if it is now accessed; it applies more to short term than to long term memory |
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| mnemonics |
-strategies and tricks for improving memory, such as the use of a verse of formula |
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| elaborative rehersal |
-association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of the new information to make it memorable
-better strategy for long term memory |
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| maintenance rehersal |
-rote repetition of material order to maintain its availability in memory
-better for short term memory |
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| serial position |
-the tendency for recall of the first and last items on a list to surpass recall of items in the middle of the list |
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| episodic memories |
-memories of personality experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred |
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| semantic memories |
-internal representations of the world, independent of any particular context
-facts, rules, and concepts (items of general knowledge) |
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| procedural memories |
-memories of knowing how to do something
-implicit b/c once skills learned, do not require much conscious processing |
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| long term memory |
-memory system involved in the long-term storage of information |
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| chunking |
-a meaningful unit of information; may be composed of smaller units
-word, phrase, sentence, or visual image
-imagery retrieval cues and useful with elaborate rehersal |
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| short term memory |
-a limited capacity memory system involved in the retention of information for brief periods
-7 + or - 2 capacity |
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