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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Group polarization






4. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






5. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






8. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






10. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






12. Doll preference studies






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






17. Hawthorne effect






18. Assuming most other people think as you do






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. Groups take greater risks than individuals






24. Inoculation theory






25. 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






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






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






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






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






30. Likely to occur in a group with unquestioned beliefs - pressure to conform - invulnerability - censors - cohesiveness - isolation - strong leader; to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critical testing - analyzing - or evaluating






31. 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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32. 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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33. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






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. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain






41. Illusion of control






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






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






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






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






46. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






48. 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






49. Cross-cultural research; Eastern countries value interdependence over independence; for example - in Japan - individuals likelier to demonstrate conformity - modesty - and pessimism; where in the U.S. - likelier to show optimism - self-enhancement -






50. Elaboration likelihood model