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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. Hawthorne effect






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






4. 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






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






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






7. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace






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






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






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






11. 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)






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. Inoculation theory






21. Cognitive dissonance theory






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






29. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






31. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






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






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






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. 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






38. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






40. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment






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






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






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






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






45. 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)






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






47. 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






48. Milgram; explains why urbanities are less prosocial than country people; they do not need any more interaction; e.g. emergency situations familiar to city people - novelty for town people will attract attention and help






49. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






50. When people think there is a higher proportion of one thing in a group than there really is because examples of that one thing come to mind more easily; e.g. read a list - half celebrity names - half random - may think more celebrities than random be