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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Groupthink






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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)






14. Theory of reasoned action






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






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






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






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






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






20. Person who speaks out against majority






21. 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






22. Illusion of control






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






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






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






26. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge






27. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






34. Cognitive dissonance theory






35. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






36. 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






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






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. 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






40. Assuming most other people think as you do






41. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting






42. Elaboration likelihood model






43. 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






44. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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)






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






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