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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour






2. 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






3. 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






4. The total influences upon individual behavior






5. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with






6. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






7. One of the first to apply psychology to business - specifically in advertising; also involved in helping military implement psychological testing to aid with personnel selection






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






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






10. Inoculation theory






11. 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






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






13. Just world bias






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. Doll preference studies






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






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






20. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






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






23. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities






24. Groupthink






25. 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






26. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others






27. Using shortcut about typical assumptions rather than relying on logic; basis of stereotypes- 6 feet tall beautiful women --> we think she'S more likely to be a model than lawyer






28. Expert and/or trustworthy - similar to listener - acceptable to listener - overheard rather than obviously influencing - anecdotal - emotional - or shocking - part of a debate rather than one-sided argument

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29. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






31. Person who speaks out against majority






32. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence






33. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






35. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer






36. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree






37. Cognitive dissonance theory






38. Group polarization






39. 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






40. M.J. Lerner - The belief that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people - it is uncomfortable for people to accept that bad things happen to good people - so they blame the victim






41. 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)






42. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`






43. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






44. Illusion of control






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






46. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. Cross-cultural research; Eastern countries value interdependence over independence; for example - in Japan - individuals likelier to demonstrate conformity - modesty - and pessimism; where in the U.S. - likelier to show optimism - self-enhancement -