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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






2. 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






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






4. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






5. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






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






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






10. 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






11. Doll preference studies






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






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






14. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






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






23. 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






24. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






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






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






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






29. Groupthink






30. Inoculation theory






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






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






43. 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)






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






45. 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)






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






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






48. Self-perception theory






49. Fischbein and Ajzen; people'S behaviour in a given situation is determined by attitude about situation and social norms; perceived behavioural control - attitude toward behaviour - behavioural intentions - subjective social norms; grounded in various






50. 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