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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. Attribution theory - balance theory






8. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed






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






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






11. 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






12. Illusion of control






13. 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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14. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






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






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






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






19. Theory of reasoned action






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






21. 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






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






23. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






24. Groups take greater risks than individuals






25. 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






26. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






27. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






28. 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 -






29. 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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30. 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






31. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift






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






33. Self-perception theory






34. Cognitive dissonance theory






35. Groupthink






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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)






42. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






43. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






48. Elaboration likelihood model






49. 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






50. 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