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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






2. 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






3. Hawthorne effect






4. Group polarization






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






6. Groupthink






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. 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






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






14. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






16. Inoculation theory






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Doll preference studies






25. 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






26. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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)






31. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






32. 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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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)






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






42. 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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43. 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






44. 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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45. 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






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






47. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






49. Self-perception theory






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