Social Psychology

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Across
  1. 3. the psychological tension that occurs when our thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviours do not align with one another.
  2. 6. component of tricomponent model of attitudes which focuses on thoughts and beliefs.
  3. 9. the tendency to search for and accept information that supports our beliefs or behaviours and ignore contradictory information.
  4. 10. the tendency for the impression we form about one quality of a person to influence our overall beliefs about the person in other aspects.
  5. 11. a widely held belief and generalisation about the personal characteristics of the people who belong to a certain group.
  6. 12. an evaluation made about the causes of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation.
  7. 13. the tendency to attribute our own behaviour to external or situational causes, yet attribute others’ behaviour to internal factors.
  8. 14. an information-processing strategy that enables individuals to form a judgement, solve a problem, or make a decision based on information that is easily accessible.
  9. 18. component of tricomponent model of attitudes which focuses on emotions.
  10. 19. an information-processing strategy that involves making a categorical judgement about an idea, event, or person, based on their similarity to other items in that category.
  11. 20. unconscious, systematic tendencies to interpret information in a way that is neither rational nor based on objective reality.
  12. 21. the tendency to overestimate the degree to which other people share the same ideas and attitudes as we do
Down
  1. 1. an information-processing strategy that involves using emotions to make a judgement or decision.
  2. 2. holding a negative attitude towards the members of a group, based solely on their membership of that group.
  3. 4. an information processing strategy that involves forming judgements based on the first information received about an idea or concept.
  4. 5. when a person or social group is treated differently from others due to their perceived characteristics as a member of a group.
  5. 7. tendency to explain other people’s behaviour in terms of internal factors, while ignoring possible external factors.
  6. 8. the tendency to take the credit for our successes as being due to internal factors, and attribute failures to external factors.
  7. 15. component of tricomponent model of attitudes which focuses on actions.
  8. 16. an evaluation of something, such as a person, object, event, or idea
  9. 17. information-processing strategies or ‘mental shortcuts’ that enable individuals to form judgements, make decisions, and solve problems quickly and efficiently.