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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. The total influences upon individual behavior






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Doll preference studies






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






15. Inoculation theory






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






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






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






19. Person who speaks out against majority






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






21. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






22. Self-perception theory






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






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






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






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






29. Group polarization






30. 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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






38. Hawthorne effect






39. 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)






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






41. 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






42. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






43. 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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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