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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






2. 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






3. 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)






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. Person who speaks out against majority






6. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better






7. Group polarization






8. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. Cognitive dissonance theory






16. 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 -






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






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






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






20. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






22. 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






23. The total influences upon individual behavior






24. 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






25. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






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






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






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






30. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






31. Illusion of control






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






33. Elaboration likelihood model






34. 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






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






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






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. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. Studied racial bias and belief similarity - people prefer to be with like-minded people more than like-skinned; racial bias decreases as attitude similarity between people increases






47. Heider; how people infer causes of other'S behaviour; attribute intentions and emotions to almost anything - even shapes on a screen; 3 elements: locus - stability - controllability






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. Self-perception theory






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






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