PSY 0105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Life Studies, Belongingness, Contact Hypothesis
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Implicit and explicit prejudice: unconscious or unable to admit; self-aware or able to admit. Iat: a computer driven assessment of implicit attitudes. Instinctive behavior: an innate, unlearned behavior pattern exhibited by all members of a species: ostracism: any behavior where you"re ignored or excluded by another individual or group, cyberbullying: bullying, harassing, or threatening someone using electronic communication. Effects of good feelings on persuasion (janis et al. Effectiveness of one-sided versus two-sided appeals (hovland, lumsdaine, & sheffield, 1949: one-sided are stronger if people don"t know the downsides, two-sided are stronger if people do know downsides. Bathroom graffiti study (pennebaker & sanders, 1976: harsher wording = higher reactance. Levinger"s study examining fear appeals and tetanus vaccination: what is needed to make fear appeals effective: fear appeals need to present a solution in order to be effective. Inoculating children against tobacco use (mcalister et al. ,1980: having children practice resisting easy or weak arguments leads to stronger resistance later in life.
