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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. Person who speaks out against majority






6. Groups take greater risks than individuals






7. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs






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






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






32. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






33. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






35. 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






36. Elaboration likelihood model






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






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






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






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






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






42. Groupthink






43. 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






44. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. 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)