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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






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






4. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






11. Cognitive dissonance theory






12. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






13. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less






14. 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






15. Groupthink






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






17. 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






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






19. The total influences upon individual behavior






20. 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






21. 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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22. Group polarization






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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)






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






29. 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






30. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






31. 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






32. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. 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)






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






47. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






49. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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