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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. Continued Milgram'S study - --> deindividuated individuals more willing to administer higher levels of shock; --> prison simulation experiments found normal subjects could easily be transformed into sadistic prison guards; --> also found antisocial b






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






7. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact






8. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






9. Had subjects listen to 'opinion' of others of which lines were equal - subjects conformed to clearly incorrect opinion of others 33% of the time; unanimity seemed to be influential






10. Groups take greater risks than individuals






11. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs






12. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less






13. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better






14. 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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15. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






16. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






17. The total influences upon individual behavior






18. Illusion of control






19. Achieved through: self-perception - high-self-monitoring - internality - self-efficacy; experiments facilitate this by having subjects perform tasks while looking in a mirror; deindividuation works against it






20. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment






21. Occurs when individual identity or accountability is de-emphasized - may be the result of mingling in a crowd - wearing uniforms - or otherwise adopting a larger group identity






22. 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)






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






24. 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






25. Persuasive communication from a source of low credibility may become more acceptable later; perhaps memory+discounting cue is severed over time - later recalling a source is less available - or differential decay: impact of cue decays faster than mes






26. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)






27. Likely to occur in a group with unquestioned beliefs - pressure to conform - invulnerability - censors - cohesiveness - isolation - strong leader; to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critical testing - analyzing - or evaluating






28. Fischbein and Ajzen; people'S behaviour in a given situation is determined by attitude about situation and social norms; perceived behavioural control - attitude toward behaviour - behavioural intentions - subjective social norms; grounded in various






29. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






33. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






34. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks






35. 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






36. Elaboration likelihood model






37. Assuming most other people think as you do






38. It is majority opinion - majority has unanimous position - majority has high status majority or individual is concerned for her own status - situation in public - not previously committed to a position - low self-esteem - scores high on authoritarian






39. Prejudice - showed group conflict most effectively overcome by need for cooperative attention to a higher superordinate goal; 2 groups of 12-year-old boys - 3 phases of group dynamics: in-group phase (bonding with own group) - friction phase (groups

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






41. Person who speaks out against majority






42. Experiment - people'S descriptions of the autokinetic effect were influenced by others' descriptions; also win/lose game-type competition can trigger conflict in groups - Robbers' cave experiment






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






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






45. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






46. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person






47. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them






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






49. The tendency that the larger the group - the less likely individuals in the group will act or take responsibility - result of deindividuation (Kitty Genovese care)






50. 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