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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






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






3. 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






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






5. 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






6. Just world bias






7. Self-perception theory






8. Theory of reasoned action






9. 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)






10. The total influences upon individual behavior






11. 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)






12. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






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






15. Inoculation theory






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






20. Assuming most other people think as you do






21. 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






22. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average






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






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






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






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






29. 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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30. 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)






31. Groups take greater risks than individuals






32. Festinger; it is uncomfortable for people to have beliefs that do not match actions; people are motivated to back actions up by changing beliefs; the less act is justified by circumstance - the more we feel need to justify it by aligning attitude wit






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






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






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. Elaboration likelihood model






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






45. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






47. Group polarization






48. 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






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






50. Groupthink