Psychology final

may be part of a group's initiation ritual during which individuals are subjected to a variety of behaviors that range from humiliating and

seeing someone then forming impression and making judgements about that person's likability and the kind of person he or she is

widely held beliefs that people have certain traits because they belong to a particular group

an unfair, biased or intolerant attitude toward another group of people

specific unfair behaviors exhibited towards members of a group

Mental categories that like contain knowledge about people, events, and concepts

Mental processes involved in the ways in which people perceive, think about, remember, and respond to other individuals or groups

based on the jobs people perform or the social positions they hold ex CEO

aka scripts, contain behaviors that we associate with familiar activities events, or procedures

contain personal information about ourselves, and this information influences, modifies, and distorts what we perceive and remember and how

explanations of behavior based on internal characteristics or dispositions of the person performing the behaior

explanations of behavior based on external circumstances or situations

development by Harold Kelley, says that in making attributions we should look for factors that are present when the behavior occurs and fact

determining whether other people emerge in the same behavior in the same situation

Determining wheter the person engages in this behaviors ever time he or she is in a particular sitaution

Determining how differently the person beheaves in one situation when compared to other situations

says that in making attributions, people feel they must conserve time and effort by taking cognitive shortcuts

our tendency, when we look for the cause of a person's behavior, to focus on the person's disposition or personality traits and to overlook

when you are behaving or acting to attribute your own behavior to situational factors

tendency to explain our successes by attributing them to our failures by attributing them to situations

any belief or opinion that indcludes an evaluation of some object, person, or event along a continuum for negative to positive and that pred

Attitude any belief or opinion that indcludes an evaluation of some object, person, or event along a continuum for negative to positive and

involves taking a public position that runs counter to your private attitude

we first observe or perceive our own behavior and then as a result change our attiutudes

presents information with strong arguments, analyses, facts, and logic

Central route for persuasion presents information with strong arguments, analyses, facts, and logic Peripheral route for persuasion emphasiz

A person looks matter; people judge to be more physically attractive generally make more favorable impressions

form of helping or doing something often at a cost or risk, for reasons other than the expectation of a material or social reward

the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.

phenomenon in which people engage in seemingly impulsive, deviant, and sometimes violent acts in situations in which they believe they canno

excessive cleaning and hand washing; repeatedly checking doors, locks, appliances, and such; rituals designed to ward off contact with supe