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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






4. 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






5. 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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6. 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






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






8. 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






9. Hawthorne effect






10. The total influences upon individual behavior






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






23. 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






24. 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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25. Person who speaks out against majority






26. Illusion of control






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






28. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action






29. Doll preference studies






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






31. 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






32. Just world bias






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






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






35. 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






36. 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)






37. 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






38. 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






39. Elaboration likelihood model






40. Theory of reasoned action






41. 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






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






43. Inoculation theory






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Groupthink






50. Self-perception theory







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