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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. 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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it






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






21. 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






22. 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)






23. 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






24. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment






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






26. 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)






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






28. 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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29. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






31. Theory of reasoned action






32. Group polarization






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






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






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






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






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






39. Elaboration likelihood model






40. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






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






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






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






45. Hawthorne effect






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. 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






48. 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






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






50. 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