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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






2. Group polarization






3. Those in a group think their members have more positive qualities and fewer negative than members in another group even if qualities are the same; basis for prejudice






4. 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






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






6. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






7. Person who speaks out against majority






8. 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






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






10. Theory of reasoned action






11. Self-perception theory






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






13. 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






14. 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 -






15. 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)






16. 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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17. 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)






18. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






26. Ellen langer - Belief that you can control things that you actually have no influence on - The driving force behind manipulating the lottery - gambling and superstition






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. Doll preference studies






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






38. 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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39. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






40. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along






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






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






43. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






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






46. 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






47. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






49. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






50. Attribution theory - balance theory