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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do






2. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






3. Stimulus-overload theory; also experiment where participants ordered to give 'painful electric shocks' to a 'learner' when incorrect - explored how people respond to orders; conditions that facilitated conformity: remoteness of victim - proximity of






4. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






5. Expense incurred and cannot be recovered; because money already spent is irrelevant to the future - best to ignore these when making decisions but we often do not






6. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier






7. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it






8. Groupthink






9. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






10. Ellen langer - Belief that you can control things that you actually have no influence on - The driving force behind manipulating the lottery - gambling and superstition






11. Bem; alternative explanation to cognitive dissonance; - when people are unsure of beliefs - they take cues from own behaviour (rather than aligning beliefs to match actions) - $1000 to work on Saturday






12. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety






13. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health






14. Heider; how people infer causes of other'S behaviour; attribute intentions and emotions to almost anything - even shapes on a screen; 3 elements: locus - stability - controllability






15. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger






16. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object






17. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later






18. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






19. Those in a group think their members have more positive qualities and fewer negative than members in another group even if qualities are the same; basis for prejudice






20. Intense longing for the union with another and a state of profound physiological arousal - biophysiological - can be positive(when love is reciprocal) and negative (when love is unrequited)






21. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along






22. Hawthorne effect






23. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors






24. Deutsch; 2 companies can choose to cooperate and agree on high fixed prices - or compete with lower prices - but lack of complete trust will choose to compete; prisoner'S dilemma in economic terms






25. Assuming most other people think as you do






26. The study of how people relate to and influence each other






27. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance






28. Code facial expressions for emotion; can determine whether a smile is genuine (happiness engages the upper cheek) or fake (eyes and whole face are less involved)






29. Argued that human have 6 basic emotions: sadness - happiness - fear - anger - surprise - disgust - drew conclusion from cross-cultural studies - individuals could recognize facial expressions corresponding to those six; FACS coding






30. Group polarization






31. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






32. Studied subjects who were first made to believe a state and then later told it was false. subjects continued to believe the state if they had processed it and devised their own logical explanation for it






33. Experiment where participants ordered to give 'painful electric shocks' to a 'learner' when incorrect - explored how people respond to orders; conditions that facilitated conformity: remoteness of victim - proximity of commander - legitimate-seeming






34. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health






35. Deutsch; if 2 criminals detained separately - best strategy is for neither to talk - but it is a gamble that requires trust - so most spill the beans; in economic terms is the trucking company game

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36. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment






37. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract






38. The total influences upon individual behavior






39. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present






40. Dislike(-) - like (+) - balance if 1 or 3 + - imbalance if 0 or 2 + - too simplistic - Balance exists when all 3 fit together harmoniously - when there sin'T balance - there will be stress - and a tendency to remove stress by achieving balance






41. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable






42. Festinger; it is uncomfortable for people to have beliefs that do not match actions; people are motivated to back actions up by changing beliefs; the less act is justified by circumstance - the more we feel need to justify it by aligning attitude wit






43. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis






44. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression






45. Studied racial bias and belief similarity - people prefer to be with like-minded people more than like-skinned; racial bias decreases as attitude similarity between people increases






46. Evaluating one'S own actions - abilities - opinions - and ideas and comparing to others; - since others are generally familiar people (own social group) - used for argument against mainstreaming; --> when children with difficulties in classes with no






47. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain






48. Cognitive dissonance theory






49. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average






50. Particularly positive self-presentation is influencial on behaviour - we act in ways that align with our attitudes or in ways that will be accepted by others; self-monitoring; impression management







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