PSYCH 2310: EXAM 1
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Social Psychology
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The science of how people think about, relate to, and influence one another.
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Hindsight bias
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I knew it all along
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Theory
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an integrated set of principles explain and predict observed events
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operationalization
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define research variables in a measurable way
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between subject design
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divide subjects into groups and give groups different IVs
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within subjects design
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give all subjects all IVs
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Illusion of transparency
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We think everyone can tell what we're feeling when they can't
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I am ______ exercise
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White people identify as individuals while minorities identify as a part of a group
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Affective forecasting
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People predict how things will affect them
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Are people good at affective forecasting?
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We're good at valance (Positive or Neg) but bad at impact(Severity)
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Narcissism
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An inflated sense of self, high self esteem, problems w relationships w other people
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unrealistic optimism
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Thinking that good things are more likely to happen to you and that bad things are less likely to happen to you
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self-reflective glory
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associating yourself with someone else's success
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self handicapping
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Protecting one's image with behaviors that will excuse later failures
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false consensus
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Tendency to overestimate the commonality of ones opinions or negative behaviors
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belief perseverance
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Tendency to believe our first instinct even when evidence says its wrong
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priming
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triggering certain associations or memories
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Causes of overconfidence
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Confirmation Bias
Failure to learn from feed back
poor feedback
temporal distance
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Remedies for over confidence
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Try to come up w reason you might be wrong
get feedback
planning fallacy: Double your estimate
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Illusory correlation
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false belief that 2 things are related
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illusion of control
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false sense of control i.e.. superstition
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counterfactualthinking
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alternate realities are easy to imagine, first instinct fallacy plays on anticipated regret
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framing
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torture vs. enhanced interrogation
200 ppl live v. 2/3 die
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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systematic discounting of a situation
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ABC's of Attitude
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Affective component like emotions
Behavior
Cognitive
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Cognitive dissonance
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having two opposing views in your mental, acting against what you believe and trying to justify it
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Necessary conditions for cognitive dissonance
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Behavior must be free will
must be unjustifiable
must have foreseeable negative consequences
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self perception theory
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You observe your own actions and form your opinions based on that
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Self-Consciousness
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Awareness of self
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Self-Concept
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Concept of self
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independent cultures
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western world, we identify w what makes us unique
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Interdependant Culture
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Identify w wat makes them all the same
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Self knowledge
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Ability to explain one's self accurately
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Misconstrual
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Imagining the wrong event/outcome
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Impact bias
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People tend to overestimate the intensity or duration of emotional responses to events
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focalism
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focusing on one event only
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End of History Illusion
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How I am right now is how I'll be forever
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Psychological Immune system
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How we cope/deal w negative events
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Immune neglect
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underestimate our ability to cope and recover from negative events
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Illusory thinking
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searches for order among randomness
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Questionnaires are _____
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Explicit Measures
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personality psychology:
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interested in how individual differences influence cognition and behavior
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self esteem
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feeling bout the self
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narcissism
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inflated sense of self, charming, outgoing, no healthy long term relationships, likely to retaliate aggressively to critism
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attitude
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a favorable or unfavorable evaluative reaction toward something or someone
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dissonance
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an unpleasant physiological state of arousal
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cognitive dissonance
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when we hold inconsistent cognitions or they are inconsistent w our behavior we experience dissonance and we are motivated to reduce or eliminate it.
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PSYCH 2310: EXAM 3