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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Elaboration likelihood model






2. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






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






5. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






6. 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)






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






8. 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






9. 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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10. 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






11. Illusion of control






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health






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






19. 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






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






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






22. 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






23. Hawthorne effect






24. Self-perception theory






25. 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






26. Occurs when individual identity or accountability is de-emphasized - may be the result of mingling in a crowd - wearing uniforms - or otherwise adopting a larger group identity






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






28. 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






29. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






30. 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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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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35. 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






36. 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 -






37. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do






38. Inoculation theory






39. Group polarization






40. 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






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. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person






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






44. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






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






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. 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






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






50. 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