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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Person who speaks out against majority






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






4. Continued Milgram'S study - --> deindividuated individuals more willing to administer higher levels of shock; --> prison simulation experiments found normal subjects could easily be transformed into sadistic prison guards; --> also found antisocial b






5. 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






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






7. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






9. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis






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






11. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






12. 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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Elaboration likelihood model






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






23. 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






24. 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)






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






26. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






28. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






29. 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






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






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






32. Attribution theory - balance theory






33. It is majority opinion - majority has unanimous position - majority has high status majority or individual is concerned for her own status - situation in public - not previously committed to a position - low self-esteem - scores high on authoritarian






34. 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






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






36. 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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37. 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






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






39. Had subjects listen to 'opinion' of others of which lines were equal - subjects conformed to clearly incorrect opinion of others 33% of the time; unanimity seemed to be influential






40. 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






41. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)






42. Assuming most other people think as you do






43. 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






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






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






46. Hawthorne effect






47. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






49. 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






50. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge