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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






3. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






5. 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






6. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)






7. 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






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






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






10. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






11. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






12. Attribution theory - balance theory






13. 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






14. 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






15. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






16. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored






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






18. 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






19. 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






20. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour






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






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






23. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






25. 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






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






27. Elaboration likelihood model






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






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






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






31. Cognitive dissonance theory






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






37. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action






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






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






40. 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






41. Person who speaks out against majority






42. People act in order to obtain gain and avoid loss; people favour situations that start out negative and end positive - even compared to completely positive situations






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






44. Inoculation theory






45. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)






46. 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






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






48. 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)






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






50. 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